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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who
click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/02/19/some-links-163/>
They Shoot Browsers, Don't They?
<http://alistapart.com/articles/theyshootbrowsers>
Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?
<http://alistapart.com/articles/minorthreat>
Inside the link/uncovering more bugs
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/inner-link-spacing>
Wiki markup has no future
<http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/002764.html#002764>
The Trouble With Web 2.0
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-trouble-with-web>
25 Ways To Improve Your Site In 5 Minutes
<http://fadtastic.net/2008/02/12/25-ways-to-improve-your-site-in-5-minutes/>
10 best CSS hacks
<http://stylizedweb.com/2008/02/14/10-best-css-hacks/>
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
<http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MindsonFireOpenEducatio
nt/45823?time=1203426444>
How to design a system that everybody hates
<http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-188129.html>
Website Optimization Measures, Part II
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080215/optimization-measures-2/>
An update to my my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist
<http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/02/15/an-update-to-my-my-openid-shitlist-hi
tlist-and-wishlist/>
ECMAScript 4 again
<http://web-graphics.com/2008/02/13/es4-ri-m2/>
XML is Ten!
<http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item20>
CSS Filters and IE7 Beta 3
<http://centricle.com/archive/2006/07/IE7b3-css-filters>
Create Resizing Thumbnails Using Overflow Property
<http://www.cssglobe.com/post/1305/create-resizing-thumbnails-using-overflow
-property>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Perth Ruby on Rails Oceania Meetup
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Date: 20-February-08
City: Perth (Australia)
Anyone interested in Ruby on Rails! You don't have to be using it
full time, even if your getting started, come along, it's just a
chance to have a bit of fun and share knowledge.
http://forums.port80.asn.au/showthread.php?p=92188#post92188
A practical introduction to website accessibility
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Date: 20-Feb-08
City: London (UK)
A practical fast track introduction to web accessibility the key issues
and legal and business cases.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility
Sydney Web Standards Group meeting
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Date: 21-Feb-08
City: Sydney (AUS)
Presentation 1: Damian Hickey - Online Video: A standard document format for
business.
Presentation 2: Ben Buchanan - W3C Standards Are Not Enough
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=147
Amazon Web Services.
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Dates: 25-Feb-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Flat Rate Recruitment invites any Melbourne-based passionate technical
people (and their friends) to come along and listen to Mike Culver, a Web
Services Evangelist from Amazon U.S.A http://
evangelists.wetpaint.com/account/mculver Mike is visiting Australia to
spread the word about Amazon Web Services.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HotMobile 2008
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Dates: 25-Feb-08 to 26-Feb-08
City: Napa Valley (USA)
The Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile)
continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on
mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying
state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it
ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial
approaches.
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008/
Writing for the Web Training
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Date: 25-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based usability testing training course. Learn
how to plan, run and analyse your own usability testing sessions.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/writingtraining
Web Usability Training
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Date: 26-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based web usability training course. Learn all
about web usability from the best in the business.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/usabilitytraining
Web Accessibility Training
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Date: 27-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based web accessibility training course. Find out
all about web accessibility from the industry-leading experts.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/accesstraining
Rich media and latest trends in accessibility
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London (UK)
An introduction to the key concepts and solutions in making rich media
accessible, including Flash and captioning. A special guest speaker will
give an introduction to AJAX.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
Hidden barriers to web accessibility workshop
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London, England
Description An eye-opening half-day course, to teach website designers,
developers and programmers how to identify and cure some of the most
serious, most common, but least obvious accessibility problems on their
web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_hiddenbarriersworkshop.hcsp
Melbourne Web Standards Group Meeting
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Date: 28- Feb-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Presentation: Paul Fenwick on "Starting An Open Source Business"
Wouldn't it be great if you could make money by working with the
software you love? Wouldn't it be fantastic to be your own boss, working
with open source tools on open source projects, and doing it all on a
schedule that you decide?
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=149
Intermediate CSS Training
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Date: 28-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based intermediate CSS training course. Develop
your CSS skills and become a more confident web developer.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/csstraining-inter
Advanced CSS Training
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Date: 29-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based advanced CSS training course. Discover how
to take CSS to the edge and create cross-browser table-less web pages.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/csstraining
Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 workshop
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London, England
Description A half-day course, introducing the forthcoming guidelines
for web accessibility, the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines 2.0
(WCAG 2.0). It includes useful references to key parts of the WCAG 2.0
guideline documentation, explains how these relate to one another and
suggests a workable strategy for progressively incorporating the new
guidelines into your web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_transitioning.hcsp
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0
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Date: 05-Mar-08
City: London (UK)
A guide to an effective audit process, covering WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and other key
areas of accessibility.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webpracticaltesting
Intranet masterclass
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City: London
Date: 7-Mar-08
Managing the evolution of intranets, Intranet innovation -- critical success
factors, Establishing effective collaboration, Improving intranet search
http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/002711.html
South By South West
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Dates: 7-Mar-08 to 11-Mar-08
City: Austin, Texas (USA)
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content
and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary
technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the
brightest personalities of emerging technology.
http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/
Rubinius Sprint in Sydney
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Date: 8-Mar-08 to 9-Mar-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Rubinius Sprint/Workshop is a weekend dedicated to learning and
developing Rubinius, the next generation Ruby virtual machine. The spring is
aimed at developers of all levels, the only requirement is that you have a
keen interest to be involved with Rubinius and want to learn more. No
particular experience with Rubinius is necessary however it would be
beneficial if you¹ve spent a bit of time prior to the sprint familiarizing
yourself with the basics of Rubinius itself.
http://redartisan.com/2008/1/31/rubinius-sprint
Carson Workshops: Professional JavaScript and Ajax by Thomas Fuchs
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Date: 26-March-08
City: London (UK)
A one-day practical workshop that will enable you to fully explore Ajax
and JavaScript and to realise the full potential of HTML/CSS-based web
user interfaces. Learn the secrets of giving your sites and web applications
the rich interactivity they deserve. This exclusive workshop by Thomas Fuchs
will provide real-world examples and practical knowledge to enable you to
make the jump to using Ajax and JavaScript.
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/dev/fuchs/26March2008.html
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 31-Mar-08 to 1-Apr-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 3-Apr-08 to 4-Apr-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Ausweb 08
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Dates: 5-Apr-08 to 9-Apr-08
City: Ballina (Australia)
In April 2008 (5th-9th) the 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference,
AusWeb08, will again be held at the Ballina Beach Resort.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
CHI 2008
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Date: 5-Apr-08 to 10-Apr-08
City: Florence (Italy)
CHI 2008 focuses on the balance between art and science, design and
research, practical motivation and the process that leads the way to
innovative excellence. It is about balance in our rapidly evolving field,
the balance between individuals and groups, collocated and remote,
stationary and mobile, in both our local and global communities.
http://www.chi2008.org/
Information Architecture Essentials
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Date: 9-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Patrick Kennedy will present the fundamentals of
information architecture (IA), the core methodology for organising and
designing websites and intranets. Key skills such as card sorting will be
taught, and this workshop is designed to build in-house information
architecture skills. A must for all web or intranet teams.
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080409/
IA Summit
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Date: 10-Apr-08 to 14-Apr-08
City: Miami, Florida (USA)
The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those
interested in information architecture. The 2007 IA Summit attracted over
570 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people from a range
of related fields.
http://www.iasummit.org/2008/
Future of Web Design
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Date: 17-Apr-08
City: London (UK)
Putting the 'design' back into web design, FOWD brings you a packed day
of sessions on the entire design process - from inspiration to build,
project management and evolution. We also have a live Photoshop tennis
session, where top designers create from scratch on the stage.
http://www.futureofwebdesign.com
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 28-Apr-08 to 29-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 1-May-08 to 2-May-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Carson Workshops: Transcending CSS - Styling For A Beautiful Web by Andy
Clarke
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Date: 14-May-08
City: London (UK)
If you are a visual designer looking to advance your CSS skills with new
techniques and technologies, or a technically minded developer who wants
to understand more about working visually, this workshop will take your
knowledge of CSS to the limits of what is currently possible and beyond.
This workshop is not designed for beginners or newcomers to CSS. To get
the most of this workshop you will be an intermediate to advanced user
of CSS and be familiar with meaningful, accessible mark-up.
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/dev/fuchs/26March2008.html
@media 2008 "CSS Mastery" Workshop
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Date: 21-May-08
City: San Francisco (USA)
Bringing his popular course based on the best-selling book of the same
name to the USA for the first time, CSS expert Andy Budd delivers a
day-long workshop for those looking to push their CSS skills to the limit.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/sanfrancisco/workshop/
@media 2008 (San Francisco)
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Date: 22-May-08 to 23-May-08
City: San Francisco (USA)
Returning to San Francisco after overwhelmingly positive feedback, the
@media 2008 web design and development conference will once again offer
up cutting-edge presentations from some of the industry's finest.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/sanfrancisco/
@media 2008 (London)
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Date: 29-May-08 to 30-May-08
City: London (UK)
Returning for a fourth year, @media 2008 is the latest in a series of
widely renowned and consistently well received conferences for web
design and development professionals.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/london/
webDU 2008
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Dates: 12-Jun-08 to 13-Jun-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
And so it begins -- the sixth Asia-Pacific web developers conference, web
DownUnder 2008!
http://www.webdu.com.au/go/call-for-papers
Information Architecture Essentials
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Date: 18-Jun-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Patrick Kennedy will present the fundamentals of
information architecture (IA), the core methodology for organising and
designing websites and intranets. Key skills such as card sorting will be
taught, and this workshop is designed to build in-house information
architecture skills. A must for all web or intranet teams.
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080618/
Web Usability Training Workshop
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Date: 28 Feb 2008 Brisbane
Date: 6 May 2008 Melbourne
Date: 22 July 2008 Sydney
Description: Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a
result of attending this one day course, participants will have a good
understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and have
the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred design
approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or web
applications within their own organisation.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 29 Feb 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 7 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Date: 23 July 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Description: Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability
tests. In this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability
evaluation and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your
organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software.
This course will explore the difference between expert reviews and usability
testing and which is better to use and when. We will cover when to usability
test, what to test and how to test.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html
AJAX and User Experience half day course
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Date: 1 May 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 8 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Date: 21 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Description: Using AJAX to enhance your online user experience.
The workshop will explore the advantages and disadvantages of this
increasingly popular technology. We will explore usability and accessibility
issues and common user behaviours with AJAX applications. Finally we will
discuss interaction design guidelines and heuristics for developing user
friendly AJAX designs.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/ajax-usability.html
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 30 April 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 29 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 2 July 2008 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 10 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Description: Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites. Ever wonder why users don't
behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues
but didn't know how to fix them? This course will provide an insight into
human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest research and
hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage of usability
test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction
design.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date: 29 April 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 28 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 1 July 2008 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 9 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications. From internet banking, online learning, government
transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects increasingly
include elements of web application design. This course will explore the
value and limitations of building a web application and introduce a range of
tools, approaches and interface design principles to ensure that you
understand your audience and design intuitive and usable web applications.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Senior Web Developer, Morpheum
Melbourne, Australia
Position overview
Morpheum is seeking two full time senior web developers with a minimum
of three years web development experience to join a company driven by an
inclusive and transparent culture, with amazing clients.
You will be part of an exciting team to produce highly usable,
accessible and standards compliant web applications and websites.
You will be a team player, excellent communicator and have a desire to
mentor junior developers in a mature and process-orientated environment.
Any web design/development for the government sector will be highly
regarded.
We see this role as suitable for someone who:
* has a strong understanding and working knowledge of W3C standards and
semantic design
* is passionate and motivated about web standards, usability and
accessibility
* is capable of writing semantic, CSS, and HTML markup by hand
* is committed and takes pride in the quality of their work
* likes to keep up to date with web best practice
Technology experience
Experience in each of the following:
* Web design patterns
* HTML, XHTML, CSS, (JavaScript experience would be an advantage)
* XML, XSLT
* Server-side development in ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, C#.NET
* SQL Server, SQL and database design
* IIS + Windows Server platform
* Familiarity with version control and release strategy
* Experience with the open source and / or mid to enterprise CMS market
an advantage as well as some knowledge in Adobe Photoshop/Fireworks,
Flash and Action Scripts would also be an advantage
Responsibilities
* Undertake work assigned by the Production Manager such that key
product development milestones are delivered to the highest possible
standards within the agreed time frames
* Initiate, plan, execute and control projects to meet requirements and
schedules
* Lead and drive development projects to successfully implement web
sites and web applications
* Introduce preventative measures when resolving production problems
* Apply knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service
to internal staff and clients
* Provide technical assistance and support through mentoring junior team
members in appropriate areas to ensure quality
* Participate in code and database reviews
* Ensure, in consultation with the Production Manager that all relevant
skills and knowledge are kept current, with particular focus on
standards-based development and accessibility techniques
* Assist in implementing internal processes, best-practice
methodologies, and building re-usable code libraries
* Assist project managers and sales team to create and execute project
work plans/timings
* Management of own time to deadlines
* Execution of all development work in line with Morpheum's Quality
Control processes and any industry standard processes adopted by the
business, in particular, ensuring websites conform to Morpheum's adopted
Accessibility conformance policy
* Provide appropriate feedback in relation to the work allocated to
facilitate the effective utilisation of the technical team in relation
to Morpheum's broader objectives
* Other Duties as directed by the Production Manager
Capabilities
* Have exceptional attention to detail and accuracy and be quality
focused
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to see and present alternatives
* Able to contribute and share knowledge with other members of the
development team
* Possess a strong work ethic and be responsive to support requests on
top of scheduled project tasks
* Be an exceptional thinker
Expressions of interest, including CV, web address or examples of work
are requested to be forwarded by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quoting "Senior Web Developer Position" in the subject line.
Job 2
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Manager Online Accessibility Consulting
- Develop a niche practice
- Superb opportunity
- National role
Vision Australia is a living partnership between people who are blind,
sighted or have low vision, with a budget around $75m and 1,100 staff.
In enhancing access to information, Vision Australia has established
commercial partnerships and works with government, corporations and
educational institutions to ensure that their online information and
software program interfaces are accessible to those using assistive
technology or needing to customise the interface. This role answers to the
National Manager Consulting Services and is assisted by a small team.
You are skilled in developing accessible websites and internet services, in
line with global guidelines and standards. You will be judged on your
ability to build relationships with clients who require high level
consultancy and training services, and promoting accessible web and software
design.
Please send a CV (Word format, up to 5 pages)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or
ring Jeremy Wurm on 03 9602 1666, in confidence.
www.rustonpoole.com <http://www.rustonpoole.com/>
Vision Australia welcomes applications from candidates who are blind or have
low vision.
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