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Keen to build a career in the area of Accessibility… where to start and how to grow?
I think it’s people who encourage me to write a few posts and this time a former colleague from HCL Technologies. He is a visual designer and his question to me via Twitter is: Hello Srinivasu, How’s work at Deque Systems? I’m a visual designer and wants to specialize in Accessibility. Your guidance is appreciated…
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Accessible India Campaign, ATAG 2.0 and more… 2nd October, 2015 – Accessibility Round-up
Mukesh Jain, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment talks about Accessible India Campaign (video) Near by Explore app by American Printing House for the Blind is now available to all users around the world android:importantForAccessibility Accessibility towards more inclusive web with Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 How your word press theme can be…
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31st July, 2015 – Weekly Accessibility round-up
Windows 10 Settings menu – Ease of Access 10 simple Rules to make my website accessible by Helen Zubkow (slides) Should NVDA Screen reader users upgrade to Windows 10? – An official statement from NV Access Everything you need to know about Netflix right now (includes something about accessibility) Call for first Accessibility camp in…
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Start-up Saturday Hyderabad – a very valuable event and guide to start-ups!
These days there are several people who would want to be an entrepreneur that not only gives them a flexible life but also give an opportunity to innovate to fullest extent. But the problem is often times, people stuck in solving problems that they see and not sure who they could talk to. Start-up Saturdays…
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Raising awareness is rather important to build accessible world – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Developers are awesome, designers are awesome too! Always willing and keen to put in an innovative effort and bring a wow experience to consumers; then why is that they don’t care about accessibility? If you think they don’t that’s wrong; They absolutely don’t see people with disabilities / elderly as their enemies and never intend…
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Accessibility Review – IRCTC Next Generation e-Ticketing System – Part 1
IRCTC has recently launched their next generation ticketing system and we decided to post accessibility review in a two or more parts. Reason for splitting into parts is that we would want IRCTC to fix problems in phased manner and start with the main and popular section of the website – Booking a train ticket!…
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DesignDay meet-up at Bangalore – slides and resources
It was nice to be at July meet-up of DesignDay. Here is a recap of the event, my slides and as promised some resources! What’s DesignDay? DesignDay is a platform for designers to meet, discuss and solve problems together. The event started by introductions including name, what do they do, what can they offer to…
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 15th – some ideas to host!
Last year and year before, Global Accessibility Awareness Day was marked across the world and it was a huge success. Let’s get ready to mark this important day this year too! This is one event where you don’t have to worry about the size of event, may it be small or big; that’s fine. Here…
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TaxiForSure iOS app – review by a screen reader user
We have invited a screen reader user Mrs. Kameshwari to write a review on TaxiForSure one of the popular cab services in India. Objective of this post is to raise awareness and make issues readily available for TaxiForSure team. We hope the team would make its app accessible. Here is what Kameshwari says: Taxi For…
