Category: Events

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    Vibrating watch

    For a long time, there were Braille Watches and Talking watches to help people with vision impairment to know the time. Talking watches were also helpful to everyone to know the time in dark specially when people are traveling in the bus. Now, it’s amazing to hear about Vibrating watch for visually impaired by Alexandra…

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    12th January – birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

    Everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is aroused to self conscious activity 12th January is a birthday of Swami Vivekanda, a person with inspiration, a person who have created path to lead a successful life, a great teacher to youth. Teachings of Swami Vivekananda shows path to lead a successful and…

  • Greetings on the eve of 69th India’s Independence day

    It was on the 14th August, 1947 midnight when India got freedom British ruling and since then India has progressed indeed in a great way and we have a long way to go. I join every fellow citizen of the country in celebrating this auspicious day and wish a glorious future to India. Often times…

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    #GAAD – also celebrating my 10th year of accessibility life!

    Hello everyone, Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and already a lot of energetic events including Inclusive Design Talks – #ID24 are happening across the world. Thanks to good friends, Jennison and Joe Devon who thought of creating such a platform to raise awareness in the community. The good part of this event is that…

  • Break barriers and open doors: for an inclusive society & development of all

    The United nations (External link) has set the theme for 2014’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities as Break barriers and open doors: for an inclusive society and development for all. As we are aware today there is so much of advancement in technology and people with disabilities could take up several jobs. There are…

  • Guru Poornima

    ???? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???????? ???? ??????? ???????? ????? ???? ????? ??? Guru (Teacher) plays an important role in human life. Guru is one who shows the right direction to an individual. Today we celebrate Guru Pournima and here is some information about this auspicious day! Guru Purnima (IAST: Guru P?r?im?, sanskrit: ???? ????????) is an Indian festival dedicated to spiritual and academic teachers. This…

  • Techshare India and CSUN 2014

    February and March 2014 will witness two important events in the Accessibility and Assistive Technology space. Here is a quick note about Techshare India 2014 (External link) and 29th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference by CSUN (External link) where my colleagues and I from PayPal will actively participate in. Techshare India PayPal…

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013 at PayPal

    Sorry for posting this post a bit late. BTW, this is my personal blog so views expressed here are of my own and doesn’t represent my employer. As you all know by now, 9th May, world has celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (External link). All the accessibility (we cutely call it as a11y) enthusiasts did…

  • Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) May 9th – let’s mark it

    Thanks to Jennison and Joe Devon, since 2012 world has marked May 9th as Global Accessibility Awareness Day and there were plenty of events took place last year across the world. This year too, there is a lot of momentum going on to mark GAAD. In India too, there are a few events taking place.…

  • Recap of International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2012

    Greetings on the auspicious occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Hope you have read my earlier post asking plans to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities and today, I’ll be writing what I have done and some of the events I have noticed. I am quite happy that lot has been celebrated…

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