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
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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
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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
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Tags: accessibility, Yahoo · Posted in: Announcements
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
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Tags: accessibility, assistive technology, disability · Posted in: Articles
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
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Tags: accessibility, disability, india · Posted in: Articles
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
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Tags: accessibility, assistive technology · Posted in: Articles
Online Banking Exam and need of a scribe?
Today, I saw a posting on one of the mailing lists in India requesting for a scribe to write an examination for visually impaired. There’s no surprise in it, but what made me to feel surprised is that the candidates has to appear a bank examination conducted online!! If the examination is conducted online, why [...]
June 23, 2010
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Tags: accessibility, assistive technology, banking, disability, exams, india, NGO, online · Posted in: Articles
How would I want to see disability organizations in India? – a personal prospective
Disclaimer: Views expressed on this post are of my personal and does not reflect views of my employer and do not intend to hurt anyone. In general, disability organizations play an innovative role in the rehabilitation process of persons with disabilities. Let’s analyze the situations for last two decades. Early 90′s there was almost no [...]
May 22, 2010
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Tags: accessibility, development, disability, india, NGO · Posted in: Articles
How to send an email using Yahoo! Mail
Hello All: I have received a few requests that they would like to know how to send an email using Yahoo! Mail using Screen reader and thought let me share with everyone. In the below explanation, I have used Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) as my screen reader; however, they should work in the same with [...]
May 18, 2010
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Tags: accessibility, mail, Yahoo · Posted in: Articles
CSUN 2010
CSUN 2010 is another great conference in area of accessibility and assistive technologies at San Diego, CA from 22nd March through 27th March, 2010. Be there to meet our Yahoo! team and see our presentations. Also, there would be some surprise waiting for you. Hope to see you there.
March 22, 2010
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Tags: accessibility, Events · Posted in: Uncategorized
