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    App review: 6by6 by BarrierBreak

    This is another innovation in the assistive technology space from India. 6by6 By BarrierBreak has 3 amazing features to assist people with low vision and vision impairment. Here is a review of it’s 3 features and how they could help users. Currency Identifier: In the recent past, In India, Reserve Bank of India has released several…

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    Prioritising Accessibility issues

    I was recently asked by a friend if there are any standard rules to set priority for accessibility issues for a website and that triggered me write-in this piece.  In general, for an accessibility tester and when we read failure statements, everything sounds important, but it’s essential to prioritize issues since not all of the…

  • A child doesn’t know about hatred…

    I was recently listening to an interview of His Holiness Shri. Dnyanraj Manik Prabhu, present Peethathipati of Shri. Manik Prabhu Samsthan which he has in conversation with a television channel in Sri Lanka. One example has touched me a lot where he spoke about how hatred is being spread. He has an example of a…

  • Open letter to Ministry of Railways, Government of India

    Dear Minister and concerned personnel of Ministry of Railways, Government of India. Subject: Lack of timely information to passengers Recently I have made a reservation on Train Number 17643 to travel from Chennai to Tanuku. I have reached Tambaram Railway station almost one and half hour before. Checked on National Train Enquiry System (NTES) to…

  • App review: Eye-D – app built for people with vision impairment but helpful to all

    Imagine, if you are in a new town and would like to explore places around you. If you are sure what kind of things you would want to explore, you may just ask someone. But what if you are unsure of what you would like to visit or just want to explore things around you.…

  • WordPress tips: Inserting widget into a post or page

    It’s common practice and rather easy method to add widgets to an area that a theme supports. However, there are ways to add widgets into a post or page. This would be useful for several scenarios. Something like on pages that we do not wish to have a side bar but wish to have a…

  • Accessibility inspector is now available in Firefox Developer Tools

    Starting version 61, Mozilla Firefox comes with Accessibility Inspector within developer tools. However, Accessibility Inspector is not enabled by default reason being shown that as of now while accessibility inspector is turned on, users are experiencing some performance issues using other developer tools. It would be a great friend to developers to see what information…

  • Accessibility – a game changer: Presented at IBM

    Recently I got an opportunity to present as part of Design Thinking series at IBM. Thanks to my good friend Suresh and his colleague Ajay for having invited me. Below is the deck that was presented. Participants were pretty enthusiastic and shown a keen interest to start their journey into accessibility. We have discussed importance…

  • Twitter for WordPress vs Accessible Twitter for WP plugins

    While we are playing to re-build our website, we wanted to be sure we address accessibility to the best possible extent. Well, we are still working on it; there are still some challenges! This post is to illustrate how replacing one plugin has made a huge difference from color contrast prospective. We always believe in using…

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    End of era: Yahoo! Messenger is shutting down in July

    It was in the year 1999 when I got introduced to the world of Internet and my first email address was created on Yahoo! Mail which also got me access to the use of Yahoo! Messenger. It was the first instant messaging application in the world. Yahoo! Messenger was one of the much needed software…