Tag Archives: accessibility

On openness…

July 10, 2009 – 4:40 pm

There has been quite a lot of discussion about opening up government data over the last couple of months, both here and in other jurisdictions. In 2007, I posted on the UK government’s Power of Information report, and the potential social and economic value that could be unlocked. At that time Statistics New Zealand were [...]

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Dominion Post goes digital

September 9, 2007 – 4:46 pm

The Dominion Post, the Wellington morning newspaper, has launched a digital edition, currently available to paper subscribers for a 3 month trial or to the merely curious for a 7 day preview. This offering comes less than a year after Fairfax (the parent company) redeveloped the Stuff website, a redevelopment I was less than enthused [...]

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Government Web Standards released

March 21, 2007 – 4:46 pm

The State Services Commission today released the new version of the New Zealand Government Web Standards, version 1.0. The new standards draw heavily upon the previous document, the Web Guidelines v2.1, however there are some significant differences that should be of interest to public sector communicators who have responsibility for creating and maintaining web content.
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mobile.govt.nz?

February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am

The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:

A very interesting fact that is [...]

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NZ newspaper sites relaunched

December 15, 2006 – 9:10 am

This morning both the New Zealand Herald and the Stuff websites (the Fairfax empire) were reskinned, and in the case of Stuff, relaunched with a new CMS. So, after a quick once over, what are my initial impressions?
Well, the obvious point to make is that they both look remarkably similar. Both have gone for CSS [...]

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