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Accessibility Meet-up August 2013 – Summary
Today was a mess. I was on my way to the August month’s Bangalore Accessibility Meet up and our car got stuck on the way and we had to spend a tremendous amount of time to reach out to service centre and so on, and I was delayed for the meet up. however, it was…
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Thank you note – NCPEDP – MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2013
It’s a great honor and privilege to be one among the recipients of NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2013 supported by AccessAbility and BarrierBreak. . I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Ms. Rama Chari of Diversity and Equal Opportunity Centre for having nominated my name for this prestigious award and thanks to the Jury for…
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Accessibility Round up – 12th August 2013
Word press 3.7 will get rid of <title> attribute Industry Coalition attempts to make e-Readers inaccessible What’s Quick Navigation mode in VoiceOver screen reader for Mac OS X by Victor Tsaran Esc key to close modal dialogs and menus Slightly updated: Intro to Web Accessibility Resources by WebAxe OK, Glass, I can’t walk. So help…
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Accessibility Round-up 1st August, 2013
Sorry folks for long wait for this post due to some unavoidable reasons:-( Call for papers – Techshare India 2014 now open. Due 1st September, 2013 Register for Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up August 2013 Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up July 2013 WebAIM’s July News letter – a lot of interesting articles Summary of Federal Accessibility Laws in the…
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Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up July 2013 – a Thank you note!
Inspired by Ted Drake of Intuit, who initiated and hosted Bangalore Accessibility Dinner back in May, 2013, I thought, we should continue the momentum. Thanks to the The National Association for the Blind, Karntaka Branch for their support with venue and logistics which helped us to organize 2nd Bangalore Accessibility Meet up on 27th July…
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Page titles, what is that all about?
This is going to be a quick post, but something very essential. <title> is something that represent your web page and it is indeed helpful specially those who opens multiple websites on different tabs. Page <title> should convey the content of the page and information about the portal. It’s very essential to provide appropriate page…
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A Tribute to Shri. (Padmabhushan) Nookala China Sathyanarayana
Saddened to hear about the demise of Shri. (Padma Bhushan) Nookala China Sathya Narayana. He passed away yesterday (11th July, 2013) at the age of 90. May his soul be rest in peace. I was not lucky enough to meet him in person but heard a lot about him and that he was another Guru…
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Accessibility Round-up July 11th 2013
We have started posting our favorites from different sources as weekly round up and these will be published both here and W3C’s Accessibility In India Community Group. Able2Fly – improving accessible travel by Disability Horizons NCPEDP – MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2013 Announced Keyboard and Interaction Accessibility Techniques – a presentation by Jared Smith of…
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SkipTo plugin by PayPal Accessibility Team – an enhancement to SkipTo links
Did you remember our post on Skip links – what, why and how?. In that article, we have seen how skip links would benefit users who uses screen readers or keyboard only but wouldn’t it be cool if Skip links actually helps everyone? Thanks to PayPal (External link) for introducing an enhancement to skip to…
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"alt" – What, Why, How and When?
Today, we see that web content is increasing with a rocket speed and more often we see non-textual elements on the websites and applications. let’s consider scenarios such as: Due to bandwidth reason, if images are not loaded on to the web page search Engines like Yahoo! Search (External link) or Google (external link) do…
