News
10/12/2006: Dept. of Enterprise Trade and Employment website still tops for accessibility
A new survey of the accessibility of Irish government department and other public sector websites shows that the www.entemp.ie website is clearly superior to all other websites, more than 2 years after it was re-designed by XML Workshop Ltd.
The Red Cardinal survey, eGovernment Accessibility Analysis is available online, and shows that the Departments website is the only one that meets the WAI Level 3 ('AAA') accessibility standard.
21/07/2006: Government sectoral plans published using YAWC Online
Today, five Irish government departments published their Sectoral Plans (as required under the Disability Act 2005). Of these, three used our Word to accessible HTML conversion service, YAWC Online, to enable them to publish the plan from Word directly to accessible HTML pages. The Department of Justice also published an overview of the plans, converted from Word using YAWC Online too. The individual Department plans are available from the links below (first 3 created using YAWC Online).
- Sectoral Plan for the Department of Health and Children and the Health Services: Disability Act 2005
- Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Sectoral Plan under the Disability Act 2005
- The Department of Transport: Sectoral Plan for Accessible Transport under the Disability Act 2005 (click on the link "HTML File" to view it online)
- Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources: Sectoral Plan 2000-2009 Under the Disability Act, 2005
- Department of Social and Family Affairs: Disability Sectoral Plan 2006
We formatted the Word files to ensure maximum accessibility of the output, and used each Departments own HTML template to create the pages. When converting, we automatically split the Word file into separate files by chapter, and created an internal hyperlinked Table of Contents for each.
01/06/2006: YAWC Online version 2 released
After much ado, YAWC Online, our Word to accessible HTML conversion server, has finally been upgraded to version 2. This new version converts documents much faster, and also allows users edit, convert and publish directly from within the Microsoft Word environment.
- View a Flash demo of how to maintain a web page using Word and YAWC Online.
22/05/2006: EdTech 2006 talk on Word as a universal Web editor
Eoin Campbell of this parish will be giving a short talk and demonstration at EdTech2006, on how to use Word as a universal editor for web content, including standard web pages, Moodle resource, Wiki and Blog pages, SCORM-conformant content, and IMSQTI-compatible XML assessments.
We will also be exhibiting, and demonstrating YAWC Online eLearning Edition, an online service for maintaining course materials in Word format, and converting them to SCORM-conformant learning objects.
23/04/2006: Improved HTML to Word conversion facility released
We have just released a much improved version of our online HTML to Word conversion facility at www.xmlw.ie/services/html2word/. This is now quite a repliable way of converting web content back into Word for easy editing. You can also use YAWC Online to convert the edited Word files back to HTML, and publish them again.
01/02/2006: OIC selects XML Workshop for accessibility auditing
The Office of the Information Commissioner selected XML Workshop Ltd., and CFIT to provide accessibility auditing and user testing services for the three websites www.oic.gov.ie, www.ombudsman.gov.ie and www.sipo.gov.ie. We look forward to working with them.
More information about CFIT (Centre For Inclusive Technology), part of the NCBI, is available on their website: www.cfit.ie.
