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iOS app Accessibility review – State Bank of India's Freedom Plus
State Bank of India (@TheOfficialSBI) is one of the popular nationalized bank in India and recently released SBI Freedom Plus app and we decided to help them by reviewing app for accessibility. We have tested the app using VoiceOver, an in-built screen reader on iOS devices. To turn ON the VoiceOver, Go to: Settings ->…
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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: Revamped website of Reserve Bank of India
Thanks to a good friend, Harish Kotian who posted news about revamp of RBI’s website on Access India mailing list (external link) so I decided to have a quick look at revamped website of Reserve Bank of India (external link) and make note of my comments: As the page got loaded, (visually) I have noticed…
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Gadget recommendation: Panasonic T9 – nice looking and comes with Android 4.4.2
Towards end of last week during my travel to Tirupati, lost my Samsung mobile phone with basic features. That’s one phone where I do have a SIM card that is with me for a very long time and most of my contacts call me only on that number and all my banking and utility information…
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Professor who inspires me…
Quite often we see a person who just does a business showcases they are super busy and sometimes avoid responding calls or emails with an excuse that they are busy. But there is one person I am fortunate enough to know in my life who in spite heading a reputed technological institution and on the…
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Indian Railways: Upgraded tickets and train schedules;
I wanted to write this post about a year ago and finally able to get to it. My wife and I frequently travel by Indian Railways and for sometime, there are a few nice things that introduced by Indian Railways: Upgraded tickets: This happens when ticket has booked under waiting list. While booking the ticket…
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India bags its first victory in ICC World Cup 2015
Wow! Congratulations Team India, well done!! India won the toss earlier today and elected to bat against Pakistan. At some point when India lost its 7th wicket, I lost hope of India winning the match but the bowling was awesome and won the match by 76 runs. Well done team. All the best for upcoming…
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Accessibility – who should decide the level of conformance?
I think Jitendra Vyas encourages me to write stuff here! This is again in response to his question on twitter asking: Who and how decides which WCAG level should follow for a project? A, AA or AAA In general, I have seen companies are required to meet at least Level AA of Web Content Accessibility…
