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…
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….
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…
JAWS 2018 has been released by Freedom Scientific
Authors note: Please note that this is a republished post due to some unavoidable technical issue. Freedom Scientific has just released its popular screen reader software JAWS (Job Access With…
Big Bazar launches comfortable shopping experiences to people with disabilities: My experience
Big Bazar has launched an initiative to provide wonderful shopping experience to people with disabilities and we have just visited to its store in Koramangala, Bangalore. It was an awesome experience and…
Accessibility Update 13th June, 2017
Lot has been happening in the recent past. Here is a quick update: Global Accessibility Awareness Day was marked really well across the world. There were a lot of in-person…
Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 First Public Working Draft is now available
Accessibility Testing is critical for ensuring accessibility of any product. Similar to any other testing e.g. performance, functional etc., quality is an essential component for accessibility testing too! Accessibility Guidelines…
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 First Public Working Draft has been published – have your say!
It was in 2008, Web Accessibility Initiative Group of W3C has announced Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a candid recommendation. Since then, there has beena lot of of…
Twitter Campaign to support #PasstheRPDBill
Thanks to NCPEDP and Mr. Javed Abidi for putting this together. It’s important that The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill gets passed soon to make lives of people with…
Accessibility related events in October
Here are a few accessibility events that I have / going to participate during October. Accessibility Week at Intuit India: Thanks to leadership, team of Special Needs and Abilities Network…
Launch of Sugamya Pusthakalaya (Accessible Online Library) in India
24th September, 2016 marks a historic milestone for people with print disabilities in India. DAISY India, in partnership with Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and powered by TCS Access…
WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) seeking inputs for WAI's new site design
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAi) of World Wide Web Consortium is one stop for all resources including guidelines, techniques, checklists, examples related to web accessibility. Education and Outreach Working Group is…
NVDA 2016.2 is released!
Our favorite screen reader NVDA – a free and open source screen reader has just announced it’s newest version 2016.2! Highlights of this version as mentioned on the release blog…
W3C elects new advisory board.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has just announced it’s new advisory board who plays a key role in providing guidance to the team on strategy, legal matters, conflict resolutions etc.,…
Summary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
We have posted a few posts to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we continue to put in efforts to raise awareness about accessibility. Besides, here is a quick Summary…
