Author Archive
Appeal to my twitter followers – Support NVDA
As on time of this posting, I have 639 friends following me on Twitter and thank you all for being friends. I have an appeal to all of you. NVDA is a free and open source screen reader that offers access to computers to visually impaired at no additional cost. Thanks to all the individuals [...]
May 11, 2012
· 
Srinivasu Chakravarthula · 
No Comments
Tags: accessibility, NVDA, Screen reader, Twitter · Posted in: Community support
Review of the Website of Income Tax Department, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
I have noticed that Income Tax India‘s Website underwent a re-design and decided to check if the website has met with Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) requirements. Unfortunately, it has not meet several check points of the compliance matrix of GIGW. since every citizen including those with disabilities and tax payers uses this website [...]
April 27, 2012
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: accessibility, GIGW, Government of India · Posted in: Accessibility Reviews
Three years at Yahoo!
My journey at Yahoo! came to an end last week as part of layoffs. So I thought, let me pen few of memories for three years. Honestly, it was an amazing, fun filled and encouraging experience for me. Thanks to Sandeep Datar, who found me on LinkedIn and offered me a challenging assignment to build [...]
April 8, 2012
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: accessibility, Yahoo · Posted in: Announcements
iPhone and iPad applications that I love
While ago, I wrote about social networks and how they are useful and this time, I thought to share my experience with a few iApplications. Why do I say iApplications? Because, this post will be about a few applications that are used on iDevices and in particular on iPhone. One of the things I must [...]
March 22, 2012
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
How the visually impaired can use a computer?
Thanks to NASSCOM Foundation for publishing my below article. Most often, people have a question – can a blind person use a computer? If so, do they need a special keyboard or a special computer? Before answering this question, let me take an example of a typist who never looks at the keyboard but can [...]
January 9, 2012
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: accessibility, assistive technology, disability · Posted in: Articles
Importance of Braille – Tribute to Louis Braille
Hello All: January 4th is Birthday of Dr. (I know, he do not have an official doctorate, but he deserves it) Louis Braille. Louis Braille is inventor of Braille Script that is used by people with vision impairment to read and write. This script is based on six tiny dots. Louis got this idea originally [...]
January 3, 2012
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: Braille, Louis · Posted in: Events
International Day of Persons with Disabilities – what it means to me?
Hello, firstly, warm wishes to everyone on marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3rd December, and I know, there are a lot of events planned across India and rest of the world. Congratulations everyone for being very active to create awareness towards disability. I only have three messages; one is for society, [...]
December 2, 2011
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: disability day · Posted in: Events
Thousands of Websites; all are citizen centric; but are they accessible to all citizens – a review
Reproduced from CIS Accessibility Blog Thanks CIS for the opportunity. Today, there are about 7800 Central and state government websites hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). They are all certainly citizen centric – whether it is the Ministry of Finance, banks, the passport authority, educational board, transport, consumer affairs, or the most important website [...]
October 17, 2011
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · One Comment
Tags: accessibility, disability, india · Posted in: Articles
Travel Tips for people with vision impairment
I often read in some mailing lists about need of escort for visually impaired travelers. While that’s true that having an escort would be helpful for people with vision impaired, I have also seen several visually impaired traveling alone, busy attending conferences. So wanted to collect trips and tricks for people with vision impaired as [...]
September 22, 2011
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: mobility, travel, visual impairment · Posted in: Articles, Experience
Solutions for people with low vision
Early 2010, I have contributed to Accessibility Knowledge Series by BarrierBreak Technologies and thought, now I should quote that here and add some more tips. Much often, we attend meetings and conferences; Today, mostly every speaker uses Power Point Slides to express what they will have to say. Although they speak most of the time, [...]
September 19, 2011
· Srinivasu Chakravarthula · No Comments
Tags: accessibility, assistive technology · Posted in: Articles
