AccessibilityOz is the largest web accessibility consultancy in Australia with recent expansion into the United States market. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, the firm has operated in the United States since July 2015 and has offices in New York, NY. Gian Wild, the founder and Chief Executive Officer, has worked on the accessibility of hundreds of web sites and applications since 1998 and spent six years with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to WCAG 2.0. AccessibilityOz offers a range of accessibility products and services to companies, non-profits, Government agencies, and colleges and universities around the world. The AccessibilityOz team has developed innovative tools for enhanced web testing and accessibility including: OzART, an automated testing tool that performs site-wide searches for accessibility defects by category and language, easy for beginning and advanced users. OzART is comprehensive and finds more accessibility and usability issues than any other automated system on the market. It is a great tool to help clients comply to Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 Standards. OzWiki provides best known methods to achieve A, AA & AAA level design and interaction for web content. These outlined errors, examples and solutions demonstrate associated WCAG 2.0 success criteria and techniques. Developers may subscribe monthly or yearly as they learn to incorporate accessibility into their design. OzPlayer is a plugin that plays back video hosted on websites and third party platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo. OzPlayer does not have keyboard traps, supports captions and audio descriptions and has a unique system for providing a moving transcript. AccessibilityOz has conducted hundreds of audits, remediation, training sessions and seminars in Australia and in the United States. To learn more about how AccessibilityOz can meet the needs of your organization, feel free to send a message via LinkedIn. Cheers!
