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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…
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Accessibility Review: Paytm web interface
Paytm is one of the largest digital wallets being used today. Paytm is one thing that gets accepted almost everywhere including small businesses like grocery stores, vegetable vendors etc., Also, Paytm enable users to purchase wide range of merchandise, book tickets for bus, train, fight etc., make utility payments such as electricity, DTH, mobile, landline,…
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Remember the settings that you have made on your computer!
On the other day, screen on my Mac was looking rather ugly and whatever images I look at, they look very odd. Looked into several options including display settings etc., was almost decided to reinstall OS X. Reached out to Apple customer care and their agent tried investigating for about 2 hours including a remote…
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 First Public Working Draft has been published – have your say!
It was in 2008, Web Accessibility Initiative Group of W3C has announced Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a candid recommendation. Since then, there has beena lot of of improvements and changes in technologies. For more than a year now, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group have been working hard to introduce extended version of WCAG…
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Radio Udaan Convention 2017 – a great meet-up to raise awareness and network among people with disabilities
On 28th January, 2017, I have attended 3rd convention of Radio Udaan at Hyderabad. Thanks to Sri Jain Sangh (of course the efforts of our dear good friend Meenal Singhvi and her family) for hosting the convention. As usual, Ministers who have committed to attend inaugural session of the convention did not turn up but…
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Master minds – Telugu Inspirational movie
Just watched Masterminds Telugu movie on YouTube. This is an inspirational movie. Three children could change mindset of a terrorist from his thoughts of burning Indian flag to have him salute Indian flag and make him feel he would want to born in India if he has next life. Summary of the movie Story starts…
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Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma greetings
Bhogi, Makara Sankranthi, Kanuma and Mukkanuma are celebrated as biggest and one of the auspicious festivals in Andhra Pradesh. In fact, celebrations of this festival begins a month before and that is called Dhanur Masam. Bhogi is the first day of this four day pongal festival. Normally it comes on 13th day of January; but…
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Greetings on the occasion of National Youth Day – birthday of Swami Vivekananda
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. -Swami Vivekananda Absolutely true. Guru, parents or anyone can only guide a person to the right direction but it’s only responsibility of an individual to grab right knowledge, set…
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Accessibility Review: Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID) Portal of Government of India
A while ago, Department of Empowerment of People with Disabilities has launched Swavlamban Card portal to provide disability certificate and Unique Disability ID to persons with disabilities. I have pleased to see there has been a lot of care taken towards ensuring accessibility of the portal. Some of the positive things done on this portal:…
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Overview – The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016
During the winter session of Rajya Sabha and Loksabha (houses in Indian parliament) has passed long pending Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill and named it as The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 [PDF]. This Act of the parliament received assent of the President on The 27th December, 2016. This is an Act…
