Intopia Launches WCAG 2.1 Map

Written by Ricky Onsman on February 27th, 2019

On Tuesday 24 July, at the Sydney Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup, Intopia launched a brand new visual map of WCAG 2.1, including the new Success Criteria published just last month. It’s downloadable in digital format as a PDF, which makes it ideal for printing to hard copy.

Support Your Local Meetup – and They’ll Support You

Written by Ricky Onsman on February 26th, 2019

What’s in this article? Meetups in General Accessibility Meetups Australian Digital Accessibility Meetups Some Notes Sydney Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup, February 2019. Photo by @OhMyDeity Meetups in General…

Don’t Rely on Default Browser Error Messages

Written by Julie Grundy on February 5th, 2019

When I found out the major browsers were beginning to include error validation into their support for forms, I was pretty excited. Form validation is always a fiddly part of…

The Rise and Rise of Web Accessibility and Inclusive Digital Design

Written by Ricky Onsman on December 3rd, 2018

Falling as it does in the last month of the year, today’s 26th International Day of Persons with Disabilities* is a good time to reflect on progress toward achieving Intopia’s aim of ‘creating…

Inclusive Design For Accessible Presentations

Written by Allison Ravenhall on December 3rd, 2018

To all the presenters of conferences, workshops, and meetups: I truly enjoy hearing your anecdotes and learning things from you. I like laughing at your jokes, especially the puns. Unfortunately,…

Giving Tuesday and Pledge 1%

Written by Ricky Onsman on November 27th, 2018

A short paragraph on the About Us page on our website runs as follows: “Intopia is a social enterprise, committed to supporting those that help others. We give five per…

Firefox Adds Support for CSS prefers-reduced-motion

Written by Allison Ravenhall on November 9th, 2018

On 23 October, Mozilla released Firefox 63. A new feature is support for the CSS media feature prefers-reduced-motion.  Firefox 63 also supports the prefers-reduced-motion CSS media feature: it allows animation-heavy sites to provide alternative layouts…

World Usability Day 2018

Written by Renata Zanetti on November 8th, 2018

Elizabeth Rosenzweig founded World Usability Day to raise awareness of user-centred design, and she hopes that one day it will become part of the United Nations official list of days.…

My Impressions of A11y Camp 2018

Written by Allison Ravenhall on October 29th, 2018

I attended the three-day A11y Camp extravaganza in Melbourne in October – the biggest and best they’ve run to date. Here’s my round-up. Wednesday: An awesome WCAG 2.1 workshop Disclaimer:…

Intopia Financial Year Report 2017 to 2018

Written by Ricky Onsman on September 26th, 2018

If there is a single word that sums up Intopia’s most recent financial year, that word must be “growth”. In the year ended 30 June 2018, Intopia experienced growth – in numbers.…

24 Hours of Accessibility Talks: #ID24 is Back!

Written by Chris Pycroft on September 25th, 2018

Inclusive Design 24 (also known as #ID24) returns on Thursday 11 October and Intopia is proud to be, for the first time, a partner of the event! What is #ID24?…

World Interaction Design Day – Australian Events

Written by Chris Pycroft on September 24th, 2018

This Tuesday, the very first World Interaction Design Day (IxDD) will be held. The collaboration between the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and Adobe will see more than 60 events happen…