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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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TapTapSee: An app to assist visually impaired to read
It has been a challenge for blind and visually impaired to identify medicines, spices in the kitchen, currency etc., while it’s easy to deal with money and spices, it’s certainly not easy when one has to deal with a number of medicines. If doctor has prescribed a specific medicine to use at a particular time,…
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Miss you, Mamma (grand mother) – Smt. Chakravarthula Suramma passed away on 2nd February, 2016
She was the one, who gave me taste of food in childhood; She was the one who took me to a lot of movies; She was the one who told me a lot of stories; She was the one, who though did not knew to write, she used a red a lot of books with…
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Creating Accessible Forms
Overview This has been presented as 4th Learning Session to the members and guests of W3C Accessibility in India Community Group. Objective of these learning sessions is to raise awareness about accessibility and enhance network of accessibility professionals. Slides Below are the slides presented in the session: Text Transcript Hello everyone, Thank you for joining…
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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…
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Accessibility Automation Testing Tool by PayPal
Overview It’s often true that a quality tester or anyone for that matter would look for robust features and possibly have all features at one place. When it comes to identifying automated tool to check for accessibility of a web interface, some of the questions that would come up with are: Does this tool be…
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Low vision users – limitations and positivity
Disclaimer: This is ABSOLUTELY my personal opinion and views expressed here are entirely of my own and with experience of being user with low vision. By no means this post is to offend anyone but to raise awareness about people with low vision. I often see posts in some public forums where members complain about…
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2016 Road ahead…
In India, 2015 has ended with the launch of Accessible India Campaign by the Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment. This leads to a great beginning of 2016. Accessible India Campaign has 3 core sections to address: Physical Infrastructure Transportation System Information and Communication Technologies Accessible India has a solid plan and targets and documented…
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Tribute to Louis Braille on his birthday
January 4th is birth anniversary of Louis Braille. Louis was born in the year 1809. Blinded in both eyes as a result of a childhood accident. But he has accepted his disability and adopted the the life with blindness. That attitude not only gave him a successful life but also became inspiration to the society.…
