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Thank you note on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
On the eve of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I would like to thank a few individuals and organizations who have helped and supported me to grow myself in the area of accessibility. Thank you The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka Branch, a place where I started thinking about web accessibility. It all began when…
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Colours with Good Contrast – Accessibility Tips
Today colours play a big role in design. It’s important to ensure that there is sufficient contrast between foreground and background. For regular text, there should be minimum ratio of 4.5:1. Be especially careful while dealing with light color shades of gray, orange and yellow WCAG Success Criteria: 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum) Level AA Understanding 1.4.3…
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#IAmForInclusion – supporting this campaign to make the world inclusive
NewzHook is celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day with a campaign #IAmForInclusion. I, being an accessibility enthusiast both by passion and by profession, completely support this campaign and let’s together build an inclusive world. If you haven’t get already, download NewzHook on your Android or iOS device and enjoy reading summary of news in a convenient…
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Heading Structure – Accessibility Tips
Right heading structure improves user experience and provide easy access to content. It’s essential to mark up using real HTML heading mark-up and not just styling as headings. Often times some developers make text bold, increase font size for headings instead using real HTML mark-up. Why is it essential to use real heading mark-up? When…
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W3C's WAI Calls for Review of Web Accessibility Perspectives videos
We all know it’s challenging to raise awareness about accessibility. Some people get inspired and covert but many still resist keeping myths in mind. As it’s is known that injecting myth is far more easier than injecting truth and reality. Education and Outreach Working Group of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently put together…
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Aadhaar Enrollment Experience – mostly positive but room for improvement
Finally, we got to enroll ourselves to get included with Unique Identification Authority of India at Indiranagar centre, Bangalore. Our experience is quite postive but needs improvement. Staff at the centre are very helpful, accommodate people with disabilities to best possible extent. Even they have filled out part of the form when we missed, courteous…
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India is driving towards inclusion… STOP discrimination
On public mailing lists and social media, I have recently came across a few incidents of discrimination of people with disabilities that prompted me to write this post. First one is about Punjab National Bank, who is troubling a potential customer who happens to be blind to open a Bank account. In spite showing Circular…
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Accessibility Resources for Developers
While we add content to our a11y resources page, to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here is a quick list of some cool resources for Developers. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – lists complete WCAG specification How to meet WCAG 2.0 – a customization quick reference to WCAG Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) – a friend…
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Accessibility round-up Week 1, May 2016
After some gap, we are back with Accessibility round-up. Here is stuff for this week Accessibility by design – IBM [Video] Command line Accessibility Tools Accessibility Testing with NVDA Screen reader by Deque [Video] Events Across the world to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 19, 2016 7 things every designer needs to know…
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Accessibility Review: HDFC NetBanking – Adding new Beneficiary
Today, let’s look at Add Beneficiary section of HDFC Bank. Please note that this test has been carried out using Mozilla Firefox and NVDA a Free and Open Source Screen reader On Home page, combo box that has NetBanking, Prepaid / Forex Card, Verified by Visa, Credit Cards, Forgot password, Register options does not get…
