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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024 – what you can do?
It’s that time of the year when people in the accessibility community start thinking about how we can mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on 3rd Thursday of May every year. This momentum has started around 13 years ago by Jennison (currently Head of Accessibility Engineering at LinkedIn) and Joe Devon (a developer with accessibility…
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Accessibility findings of the week starting 25th February, 2024
Both for professional and personal reasons, I use several websites and applications on daily basis. This is an attempt to capture accessibility findings as I use them on a weekly basis. I would be covering both what I’m impressed about and where respective website / application owners has to work upon. The Hindu Business Line…
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VPAT 2.5 is here!
Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC) has just released an updated version of Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) popularly known as VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template). VPAT stands for Voluntary Product Accessibility Template. It is a document used in the information technology industry to evaluate the accessibility of a product or system with respect to established accessibility…
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#BESCOM make CAPTCHA accessible
Like many websites, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) uses CAPTCHA to secure portal from fraudulent attempts. BESCOM uses CAPTCHA at several places including: New user registration Forgot the user ID Online Payment landing page CAPTCHA implemented currently is a image based combination of alphabets and numbers. However, there is not alternate mechanism to aid users…
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White Cane enables people with vision impairment to walk independently, but what causes problem?
15th October is celebrated as International White Cane Safety Awareness Day. White Cane enable users with vision impairment to walk independently. It offers indication if there are any obstacles in front of them. There ae traditional white canes which comes in variety of models such as long cane, folding cane, cane that comes with a…
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Accessibility Courses and Certifications
It’s good to see there is increased interest to pursue career in the area of accessibility. There are also growing opportunities. It’s important to have more people with accessibility knowledge so that more products become accessible. Now that many things including education are going virtual, it’s important that supporting technology is accessible. Here is a…
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 – Final Draft is now available
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released final draft of WCAG 2.2 on 11th August, 2020. WCAG 2.2 has introduced 9 new Success Criterions out of which 8 are Level AA and.. Let’s take a look at new Success Criterions. Success criterion 2.4.7 Focus Visible (Changed from Level AA to…
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A tribute to Joseph Karr O’Connor
Just after about a few weeks that Jim Thatcher has passed away, it’s sad to sad and unexpected demise of yet another accessibility advocate Joseph Karr O’Connor (1953 – 2020). He is one of those people who have contributed immensly in the area of digital accessibility. He is popularly known as Joe and AccessibleJoe. I met…
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Intoducing SI a11y (AccessibilitY) HelpDesk
What’s What’s SI HelpDesk? SI (ServeOM Inclusion)’s a11y (AccessibilitY)’s Help Desk is a platform where anyone who is building a website, web application, mobilie application to ask questions related to accessibility. Yes, there are plenty of resources on the web and they are all great and SI a11y HelpDesk is just another helping hand to…
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities – The future is accessible!
International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 2019 – The futue is accessible!
