Author: Srinivasu Chakravarthula

  • WAI – ARIA Landmark navigation extension

    Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of W3C, a few years ago, introduced landmark roles (also known as landmarks”) for easy navigation of web page. An introduction to ARIA landmark roles: The purpose of this technique is to provide programmatic access to sections of a web page. Landmark roles (or “landmarks”) programmatically identify sections of a page.…

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017 – events in India

    With successful 5 years of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, this year it will be marked on May 18th. Objective of Global Accessibility Awareness Day is to raise awareness among community to as much as we can. It need not be in a big way but it is measured in the form of impact created. In…

  • Tips for developers: Get your website teted for accessibility – Part 2 – Operable

    This is Part 2 of 4 parts on how a developer should get their website or application tested for accessibility. Objective of this series is to provide easy method of accessibility testing to developers so that they can test as they code. This is how we would achive accessibility right at the development and design…

  • More Mega Store vs eZone of BigBazar

    Last month, we have purchased a few home appliances and dealt with both More Mega Store and eZone of Big Bazar. Here is our experience. We have first visited More Mega Store near Gopalan Mall and experience was horrible. Staff were not courteous; were not willing to find out the information that we needed. We…

  • A quick accessibility review: Swiggy iOS App

    Swiggy is an online portal using which one can order food from restaurants around and food will be delivered through their executive. When Madhu Singhal, Founder of Mitra Jyothi told me that she needs to use Swiggy but its app on iOS is not accessible using VoiceOver that prompted me do a quick accessibility review…

  • Schedule a call to get started with Digital Accessibility

    Now-a-days, there is a positive momentum about accessibility and businesses would want to make their products accessible. But challenge for many is that they do not know where to start and how to go about. To mark 6th edition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I have decided to spend sometime with people who would like…

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017 – Let's raise awareness about accessibility

    6th edition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day will be observed on 18th May, 2017. As always, this is one such event that success of the event does not get measured by it’s size or format but by impact that event could create. Thanks to Prakat Solutions Inc.,, here is a quick video of my opening…

  • Tip for Developers: Get your website tested for accessibility -Part 1 Perceivable

    Quite often, I receive emails from non-profit organizations asking if I can help them with accessibility testing for their newly built website. I also see most of them do not get built accessibility in mind though many of them are for organizations who offer services to people with disabilities. This post illustrate a few tips…

  • 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 Working Group has published First Public Working Draft of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 and accepting comments and feedback by 5th May, 2017.…

  • Recent Experience at Tirumala and Tirupathi

    Last couple of days, we have visited the Holy place Tirumala and Tirupathi and had some great experience (minus a little not so good experience); here is summary of our trip. Firstly Online booking portal has been greatly improved. When I have tried about 3 years ago, interface and booking procedure was difficult including requirement…