International White Cane Awareness Day was observed at The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka Branch. The event was started with an invocation song by inmates of orgaanization. It was…
Recap of Intuit Annual Accessibility Summit, Inclusive Design 24 and Bangalore Accessibility Dinner
11th October, 2018 was fabulous day for Bangalore. Intuit hosted their 6th Annual Accessibility Summit in their Bangalore office. Summit has began with energiser by Prarthana, Co-founder of GiftAbled. Then…
Building Accessible Websites using WordPress – #ID24 Talk
Tomorrow (11th October, 2018) at 11:30am (Indian Standard Time – GMT+5:30), I’ll be speaking at Inclusive Design 24 and the topic is “Building Accessible Websites using WordPress”. While we are…
September 23: International Sign Language Day
It’s great to learn September 23rd is observed as International Sign Language Day. (Thanks to Akhil Paul of Sense International India for tweeting about it). International Day of Sign Language…
#RPDAct2016 – norms for physical infrastructure
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (India) is a game changer and aim to eliminate barriers in the lives of people with disabilities. Here is what the act…
Upcoming Accessibility Events in Bangalore
In next few weeks, there are a series of interesting accessibility events are happening in Bangalore, India. These are some interesting events that not only brings platform to gain/share knowledge…
New Success Criterion in WCAG 2.1: 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures (Level A)
Success Criterion 2.5.1: 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures (Level A): All functionality that uses multipoint or path-based gestures for operation can be operated with a single pointer without a path-based gesture, unless a multipoint or path-based gesture is essential….
Prioritising Accessibility issues
I was recently asked by a friend if there are any standard rules to set priority for accessibility issues for a website and that triggered me write-in this piece. In…
App review: Eye-D – app built for people with vision impairment but helpful to all
Imagine, if you are in a new town and would like to explore places around you. If you are sure what kind of things you would want to explore, you…
Accessibility inspector is now available in Firefox Developer Tools
Starting version 61, Mozilla Firefox comes with Accessibility Inspector within developer tools. However, Accessibility Inspector is not enabled by default reason being shown that as of now while accessibility inspector…
Accessibility – a game changer: Presented at IBM
Recently I got an opportunity to present as part of Design Thinking series at IBM. Thanks to my good friend Suresh and his colleague Ajay for having invited me. Below…
Twitter for WordPress vs Accessible Twitter for WP plugins
While we are playing to re-build our website, we wanted to be sure we address accessibility to the best possible extent. Well, we are still working on it; there are still…
Accessibility Review: IRCTC Next Generation Ticketing System portal
IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation) has recently revamped it’s portal and good news is that users do not require to login to check availability of tickets, search trains etc.,…