Text version is available below the video. Good morning, Firstly, Wishing you all a very happy 2018. I would also extend warm wishes on the birth anniversary of Louis Braille;…
Year in Review 2017
It has been a transforming, exciting and a fantastic year! Highlights of Accessibility developments in 2017 across the world. W3C is all set to roll-out Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)…
Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Operable
This is 2 of 4 in our series to put together an updated web accessibility checklist. As mentioned in our earlier post Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Perceivable, this post…
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group of W3C has finalized several documents.
The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group of W3C has finalized following documents: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 Digital…
Tips to make your website more accessible
This is a guest post by Jackie Edwards. All websites need to cater to all of their users, including those with disabilities, but sadly many websites do not. For instance,…
Last chance to comment: WCAG 2.1 last public working draft is now available
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group of W3C has published last public working draft of WCAG 2.1 and one can send in comments no later than 12th January, 2018. This is…
Accessibility beyond the legal requirement
On 6th December, 2017 – I have got an opportunity to speak at Thomson Reuters as part of their events on the eve of International Week of People with Disabilities….
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3rd December
3rd December of every year is observed as International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Objective of observing this day is to raise awareness about people with disabilities and bring them…
Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Perceivable
Back in 2010, we have published a Quick Web Accessibility Checklist that received a good response and we have also received a good feedback. It’s true that users prefer to have a…
Re-building website on wordpress? Checklist to consider!
As you may have noticed, for a few weeks, there have been frequent changes in the design and features on our website. Yes, we have been working on to give…
AirAsia provides reasonable accommodation; what can they do better?
Last weekend, we did a quick round trip to Hyderabad from Bangalore on Air Asia; here is our expereince as a family with 2 children and both of us having some disability (Hema has problem with her right hand and I’m a person with low vision).
Check-in counter staff both in Bangalore and Hyderabad are sensitive enough and arranged a personnel to assist us. However, they are not sensitized towards how and why they should be assisting us. That person was just walking ahead of us and once we found it difficult to trace him. AirAsia have announced a priority boarding but that sequence was not maintained after boarding the transit bus.
Accessibility Collection – week of 6th November, 2017
We have just started a new initiative to post our collection of accessibility related articles and other stuff on a weekly basis. We aim to post this on every Thursday….
Chrome Extensions to improve browsing experience
I was looking out for how Google Chrome can be used efficiently and during my search, came across interesting extensions to improve experience of browsing on Google Chrome. These extensions…
How to add alternate text to images?
Authors note: This is a re-published post due to an unavoidable technical issue. In continuation to our post <alt> Campaign: Let’s make images on the web accessible, here are a…
Uber India launches UberAccess and UberAssist in partnership with MphasiS
October seem to be a month for service providers to think of making their services accessible to people with disabilities. Earlier this week, we have witnessed launch of Shopping Assist…
