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Experience with Indigo airlines: Positive but time consuming for airlines
Recently I have travelled from Bangalore to Hyderabad with Indigo airlines. Their hospitality is just awesome as always. However, I found they are wasting a bit of time of their staff. Since I wanted to try the experience of Airport Pool introduced by Uber, I have decided to leave home early. I have reached airport…
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WCAG 2.1 is now a proposed recommendation
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has become a proposed recommendation a while ago. This is possibly a last step before a standard becomes W3C recommendation. In short, this process is to confirm if required corrections are made. Here is what it means in the words of W3C. 7.6.4Â Call for Review of Proposed Corrections Document…
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Power of reading books: World book day
Yes, we are living in digital era today; but reading a printed book gives a unique pleasure. Advantage of reading a physical book is that we get memorised quickly. I have experienced that by reading a book of our choice will give us relaxation and best thing to get sleep. Yes, we can read books…
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day: beyond digital accessibility
It’s true that most of the events being planned to observe Global Accessibility Awareness Day are focused on digital accessibility. This is not because someone doesn’t like about other aspects. It is happening just due to most people who are involved or hosting GAAD are from technology background. There is no restriction to observe GAAD only in…
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Using WAVE – an Accessibility Evaluation tool by WebAIM – #GAADSeries
This is a guest post by Kameshwari Devi Kiran Kumar This article briefly explanes how to use the WAVE tool to test accessibility for a website. There are primarily two methods of using the tool: Entering the URL of the website you would like to test into the ‘Webpage address’ textbox given for the purpose…
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Greetings on the auspicious festival Ugaadi – New year for Telugu, Kannada and Marathi speaking families
This is the 32nd year of 60 years from Telugu Calendar. This is called “Shri. Vilambhi”. Telugu and Kannada new year are celebrated as “Ugaadi” and Marathi speaking people celebrate this as “Guid Padva”. For Telugu speaking people, festival starts with eating a dish that is made up of Mango, Neem, Chilli powder, Bananan, Jaggari…
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Missing alternate text: GAAD count down!
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we will posting about common accessibility issues each day from today. Objective of this initiative is to let product owners know about how they are creating barriers to their users and how they can fix them. Let’s see how we could impact the world for this 6th edition of Global…
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CPWA, CPACC, WAS – what are all these?
My readers may have noticed something like CPWA, CPACC and WAS added to my profile on various platforms. Thought I would write a quick post describing what these acronyms are meant. These are certifications by International Association of Accessibility Professionals for people working in the area of Accessibility. CPACC – Certified Professional in Accessibility Core…
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Open Challenge to all the airlines; specially those who discriminate
Inspite having regulation from Director General of Civil Aviation, Government of India, air carriers display a non-discrimination statement on their websites, we still see discrimination happening on the ground. Very recently, a doctor by profession and a person with disability was asked for a “fit to fly certificate” by Jet Airways customer service. Here is…
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Short note: Why it’s important for promotional emails to be accessible and not text embedded into an image?
These days, almost every day, we will end up receiving an email about a promotional offer but quite often they are image based. If you are a user with vision impairment, you cannot read that email with a screen reader. If you are viewing that email on a mobile device, often, images does not get…
