-
Updates… CSUN, NAB Karnataka Elections, Indian currency, US elections etc.,
I’m excited that my submission titled “Accessibility Strategy for Existing, on-going and future digital products” has been accepted to present at 32nd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference to be held during March, 2017 at San Diego, USA. Though I am not yet sure if I would be ravelling for this conference due to budget limitations. Finally…
-
Idea to spread awareness about Accessibility to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities
As you all know 3rd December is marked as International Day of Persons with Disabilities and a lot of activities around the world. Here are some ideas to raise awareness about disability and accessibility. Mini Accessibility Showcase : We can create mini accessibility showcase absolutely at no cost but will have a great impact. Here…
-
Impact of Inclusive Design
This is full text of presentation made at UX India on 21st October, 2016. Thank you for having me here and I’m delighted to talk about inclusive design. Thank you UX India organizers for including this topic as part of this conference. To begin with, let me quickly introduce myself. I’m an accessibility evangelist, currently…
-
My experience with BlaBlaCar – a step towards green!
I’ve learnt about BlaBlaCar (nice name!) about a year ago through ads and recently experienced it both as a co-traveller as well as offered rides. When our second child was born in July, I have visited Tirupathi and since we cannot estimate our departure time, I decided to search on BlaBlaCar after my darshan at…
-
Google Apps Support team is awesome
I recently had to reset password for one of my google apps accounts and sadly, I did not have access to recovery phone number that I configured. So other option is by verifying ownership of domain; which requires us to add a CNAME to the DNS. I went ahead and added CNAME as per instructions…
-
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 (SNAN) of Intuit and of course our good friend Ted Drake for having invited me to be part of a panel discussing about “Journey and…
-
WhatsApp Web interface – easier to use than on mobile
I may look like someone who thinks a bit backward; but Off late, I prefer using WhatsApp and Twitter on the web than using mobile device. I usually use these platforms for sharing information ond answering questions from my followers / groups on WhatsApp. Often, it requires me to do a bit research, refer a…
-
A few tips for iOS 10 users
Until iOS 10, users just use one button to unlock the screen by using On/Off switch and then swiping left to right brings up screen to enter pass code. Now that in iOS, swiping left to right brings up highlights of a few things like News, weather etc., and users are asked to Press home…
-
Recap: Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up – September, 2016
This time it was just a lite meet-up with about 10 people. Though number was small, folks were energetic and enthusiastic. A quick summary of the event: Round of introductions – great to see new faces – people from Intuit, Bang The Table, AAMI, Visaetc Arjun of Bang the table talked about what they do,…
-
Summary of Accessibility Summit 2016: Reports that designers and Developers love
OK, next up was my good friend, a man of demos, known for mobile accessibility – Paul J Adam presenting Reports that designers and developers love. Paul has demonstrated report formats that designers and developers love and tips to create good accessibility assessment reports. His presentation was consist of Scoping the website / mobile app,…
