An informative and insightful webinar specifically created for the Australian events industry. You will learn the key elements required to make an event web accessible, witness some web design disasters and a look into real struggles experienced by event delegates with a disability. It's an excellent starting point for an event manager, marketing manager or corporate looking to become more inclusive.

1. Welcome to this
Webinar
@webaccessibilityforevents
Take ownership of legal and moral
obligations to make events more
digitally accessible

2. Introduction
Luli Adeyemo, Director, Best Case Scenario Kevin Galvin, Principal Consultant, me2 accessibility
• Manages a team of experts who
make Government and business
event websites and registration
platforms accessibility compliant
• Appointed as monthly guest
columnist on all things accessible
for event publication, Spice News
Magazine
• Kevin is one of Australia's leading
experts in web accessibility with
over 15 years’ hands-on experience.
• Kevin audits Best Case Scenario’s
client websites once the BCS team
have worked their magic, the aim to
ensure WCAG certification.

3. Our Web Accessibility Clients

4. Housekeeping
Live Poll
A live poll will take place near the end of the presentation, this is a
confidential poll and names will not be used.
Prize!
The next slide will feature a simple question, please answer this at the end
of the presentation via CHAT to be in with a chance to win dinner for 2 at
Bistro Rex, Sydney. Winner announced via email after the webinar.
Q&A An opportunity for questions will be given straight after Kevin’s
presentation.

5. Question:
What does W3C stand for?
Bistro Rex, Sydney – win a table for two, winner emailed post webinar!

6. It Makes Business
Sense
• 1 in 5 Australian's has a long term impairment (20% of
population, 4 million people)
• Potential delegates with a disability represent a substantial
business opportunity: 34% of people with a disability of a
working age are managers and professionals.
Source: Australian Network on Disability
• Studies show that customers are more loyal to organisations
that demonstrate they value diversity and inclusion.
Source: Employer of Choice Study
Diversity Council Australia, CEO, Lisa Annese
“This is not about people without disabilities
doing some charitable work for people with
disabilities. This is about engaging for better
business outcomes, better performance and
better customer service.”

7. Building regulations

8. Web regulations
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• International benchmark for digital accessibility
• Designers, Developers, Content Creators
WCAG 2
Level AA

9. Legislation
Disability
Discrimination
Act 1995
Government
mandate
Risk
UN Convention on
rights of people
with a disability

10. Disability Discrimination Act 1995
• Human Rights Commission
• All public and private sector websites should be
accessible
• Meet WCAG guidelines Level AA

11. Highest Volume of
Complaints?
Types of discrimination complaints to the Australian
Human Rights Commission

12. Where to Start?
• The WCAG guidelines can be overwhelming:
• Long
• Technical
• Inaccessible
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13. To The Rescue
• We have developed an Accessibility Health Check
• Focus on high priority areas
• Most common issues
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14. Accessibility Health Check
1. Image alt text
2. Headings
3. Color contrast
4. Resize Text
5. Page title
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6. Keyboard access
7. Visual focus
8. Forms
9. Moving or Flashing Content
10. Multimedia (video, audio)

15. Meet Anna Your
Potential Delegate
• Anna has a low vision
• She needs visible registration form fields
• Anna also needs digital and physical signage
to be a consideration especially when event
apps are used onsite
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16. Meet Luli excited to be
going to a major
sporting event
• Luli also has a vision impairment
• She struggled to use the parking app at a
major sporting event in 2018
• The colour contrast was so poor, it made it
hard for her to locate the parking area
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17. Poor colour
contrast….
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• Light grey text on the dark
grey background has poor
colour contrast.

18. Text on background
images ….
• Legibility of the text very
difficult to read
• Transparent form fields
• Mobile users would struggle
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19. Poor colour contrast….
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20. Meet Mark a regular at
events, both speaking &
listening
• Mark is blind and uses a screen
reader to surf the web.
• Mark can't see the images on a
website and relies on descriptions to
be included.
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21. Images with incorrect
descriptions….
• Mark misses important
information when the descriptions
make no sense
• Alt text="600 efooter 1200x250"
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22. Images with no
descriptions….
• Or nothing is read out by
his screen reader
• Alt text="blank"
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23. Meet Simon, arthritis
hasn't slowed him
down
• Developed arthritis with age
• Simon doesn't use a mouse anymore
as he is unable to grip it sufficiently.
• Instead he uses a specially adapted
keyboard when online.
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24. Keyboard access …
• The calendar picker does not work
with a keyboard
• Many users don't use a mouse
• Screen reader users
• Physical impairments
• Simon was unable to complete his
registration
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25. Meet Dave Your
Speaker
• Dave uses a wheelchair, the event organiser
doesn’t know this yet, because the registration
platform did not facilitate this knowledge.
• What Dave doesn’t know yet as he is driving to the
event venue to speak, is that the stage is over 5ft
high with just steps as access.
• Dave will have to drive back home the 150KM
distance without speaking

26. This health check
follows World Wide
Web Consortium
(W3C) guidelines.

27. Poll Questions
% of results only will
be used, respondents
details confidential &
not for public
consumption.

28. Q&A
Please use Q&A feature on your
control panel to ask questions

29. Q&A
Please use Q&A feature on your
control panel to ask questions

30. Answer The
Question Now
via Chat!
What does W3C
stand for?
Bistro Rex, Sydney – win a table for two, winner
emailed post webinar!

31. Next Workshop Continue your journey to
make Australian events
more accessible
August 16th, 10am
Create events with
social impact
• One of three winners at Microsoft’s
Hack4Good at PwC’s Barangaroo offices,
focused on hacking solutions for people with
disabilities.
• Scored a spot on Anthill’s Smart 100
• They are supporting the Pararoos on their
journey to the 2019 World Cup! They are
taking full advantage of Humanitix’s newly
released accessibility features on their
ticketing platform

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