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A quick note of appreciation to Election Commission of India
As we know, currently Elections are being held for Lok Sabha of India and Assembly of a few states. I have been following election news through different media channels. Unfortunately I was unable to cast my vote because non-receipt of my voter registration card. Hope to cast next time! There were always several complaints during…
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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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Web at 25: What World Wide Web means to me?
To mark 25 years of World Wide Web, I am here to share how I began using internet and how I use it today. Over the last 25 years, web is evolved and became part and parcel of our day-to-day life. I started using internet sometime in 1999. Initially I was just using internet to…
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2014 Year in review!
January Missing my sweetheart Hema and baby darling… Received new year wishes from many. Built website for Access India convention – a meet up of several visually impaired folks. NAB Karnataka has won GudVille campaign! Kameshwari and I wrote a Review on TaxiForSure’s iOS app From 12th January to 14th January, spent at holy place…
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Last two weeks and a holy trip to Shirdi
Wow, our little angel is already one month! I surpassingly visited Hema’s home town on 5th January 2014 and had a two days of joyful time with Hema and little angel! Back in Bangalore on 7th January and was busy with work for rest of the week. A lot of planning is happening for upcoming…
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Braille is still relevant – a Tribute to Louis Braille
4th January is birthday of Mr. Louis Braille (1809 – 1852). He is the inventor of script Braille – a written script for people with vision impairment and those who are deaf and blind. Though there is so much advancement in Technology, still Braille plays a key role in the lives of people with vision…
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Update 3rd January 2014
Ah! it was rather a hectic Friday; had a lot of meetings at my day job including an interesting conversation with a vendor. Wow, their team is just amazing and quite keen to learn new stuff. Watched (again) an interesting conversation about keyboard accessibility between two experts Victor Tsaran and Nicholas Zakas. Recommend everyone who…
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Update 2nd January 2014
Posted Kameshwari’s Review on TaxiForSure’s iOS App. They responded pretty quickly that they would look into the post and do the needful to make their app usable to everyone; Looking forward. Have been busy with work at my day job. Evening joined swimming classes at Tarun Associates, they are pretty good at teaching! Spoke to…
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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…
