The rally starts at 11am at the Bridge of Remembrance, with speeches, and a potential hikoi up Cashel Mall and back.
Bring banners and your voice as we continue to rally against the funding restrictions and changes to Whaikaha.
Date: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Time: 11am
Location: Starting at the Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch.
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By: Mike Peters
Disabled United NZ: Thursday, 21 November 2024
Work is now underway to create the new DUNZ website. The current website uses Google Blogger, has 300 pages, and is becoming difficult to maintain because of the different sections and maintaining internal links. As a result, important information is becoming harder to find because of the poor navigation structure.
This is why the website has not been updated for a while. (There is a large backlog of material waiting to be added.)
The new website will enable content in English, Maori, NZ Sign and AAC (Picture Board) as it becomes available.
There will be separate subdomains for each language, as Wikipedia does.
Zoom meetings will be held on the website. We also want NZ Relay to be included.
The new website uses Pipi9 as its back engine, an AI-assisted content management system that can generate large numbers of static web pages from a database. (Pipi4 created several 25,000-page websites) Based on this, the content on the home page will be fully automatic, changing daily based on simple form fields when a new item is added. It can automatically update the navigation structure. It can also create and send newsletters by email and text.
The existing website will be moved to the new website, keeping existing web links for the search engines.
DUNZ members will eventually receive passwords to log in to a members area, add content, subscribe, add events, etc.
The strategic reason for doing this is that we face a long, hard fight to regain our rights and need the right tools for the job. The website needs to scale and respond rapidly as an organising tool.
Volunteers will do extensive testing to ensure the website meets current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The excellent UK Government's Design System on Accessibility Standards will also help.
All suggestions, questions, criticisms and offers of help are welcome.
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