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Thank you 35,786 visitors in 2018
What a great year! Thank you visitors for showing love on my writings. With this 35,786 views in 2018, my views have reached more than 82,000 and great to see I’m nearing 1 Lakh views. Here is a chart that shows views by month in 2018. Wow, it’s far more easy to insert a chart…
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Christmas greetings
Dear friends those who celebrate Christmas, wishing you a marry Christmas. This is a festival of love and known to be festival to share gifts. It’s great to see many colleagues at work are celebrating secret Santa and sharing gifts to one another. May you all be blessed and have a fabulous festival. This will…
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Year in Review 2018
2018 has began where we started using videos as a medium of video to send greetings. We have started with a video message on the occasion of new year and birth anniversary of Louis Braille. During January, 2018 – Inclusive STEM in partnership with International Association of Information Technology has hosted Inclusive STEM Hack-a-than. It…
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NVDA 2018.4 is now available
Wow, NV Access is such a committed organization that I have never seen them missing a release nor compromising quality in a release. NV Access has just announced release of Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) 2018.4. NVDA is a free and open source screen reading software that enable people with vision impairment to have access…
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Smart House for People with Disabilities
This is a guest post by Melisa Merzitt Smart house for people with disabilities Many new Internet of things applications are comfort and safety oriented. They make it to where a user is able to regulate temperature and lightening in a room, manage door locks, activate signalization system, etc. With the assumption that, these applications…
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2018
3rd December is observed as International Day of Persons with Disabilities.Theme for this year is Empower people with disabilities and ensuring inclusion & equality.This theme certainly falls in-line with our vision to build an inclusive world. Here are a few ways that one could mark this auspicious day. It’s not necessary that one needs to work in…
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Revised Guidelines for Indian Government Websites and Apps has been published – Accessibility related sections
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has published revised Guidelines for Indian Government Websites and Apps. Ministry has published first version in January, 2009 and after 9 years, Ministry has now published second version to align with current technologies. These guidelines are adopted by Department of Administrative Reforms and public grievances, Ministry of Personnel, public…
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Recap of Empower 2018
I have attended Empower 2018 – Assistive Technology Conference hosted by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from 25th to 27th October, 2018. Here is a recap of the conference. Empower 2018 has been kicked off by Prof. Balakrishnan of IIT Delhi. In his address, he has welcomed all the participants, speakers, partners, sponsors and volunteers. …
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“.new” feature from Google
Most of us uses Google applications such as Google docs, Google sheets, Google slides and they are far more easier to work and collaborate with others using the cloud. So far, if we want to create a new document, new sheet or new slide deck; we need to open respective application and choose “new”. With…
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Few ways that we can contribute to make our community a better place to live
If we think we have lot of problems around us in the community, let’s take a step back and think if we are responsible for it and can we make a difference? Here are a few ways that we can contribute to make our community a better place to live. These sound simple things but…
