Tag: accessibility

• Recap of International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2012

  Greetings on the auspicious occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Hope you have read my earlier post asking plans to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities and…

  December 3, 2012

• International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IPDP) 2012, what are your plans?

  I wish, I should have seen the United Nations Page on International Day of Persons with disabilities 2012 a bit earlier… Theme for this year is something very close to…

  November 20, 2012

• So much is done and more would come in the era of mobile accessibility

  I still remember Nokia 6600 (hmm. Nokia forgot this phone, can’t find on their site except the developer specs and found the info on Wikipedia!) that first ever mobile phone…

  August 21, 2012

• Appeal to my twitter followers – Support NVDA

  As on time of this posting, I have 639 friends following me on Twitter and thank you all for being friends. I have an appeal to all of you. NVDA…

  May 11, 2012

• Review of the Website of Income Tax Department, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

  I have noticed that Income Tax India‘s Website underwent a re-design and decided to check if the website has met with Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) requirements. Unfortunately, it…

  April 27, 2012

• Three years at Yahoo!

  My journey at Yahoo! came to an end last week as part of layoffs. So I thought, let me pen few of memories for three years. Honestly, it was an…

  April 8, 2012

• How the visually impaired can use a computer?

  Thanks to NASSCOM Foundation for publishing my below article. Most often, people have a question – can a blind person use a computer? If so, do they need a special…

  January 9, 2012

• Thousands of Websites; all are citizen centric; but are they accessible to all citizens – a review

  Reproduced from CIS Accessibility Blog Thanks CIS for the opportunity. Today, there are about 7800 Central and state government websites hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). They are all…

  October 17, 2011

• Solutions for people with low vision

  Early 2010, I have contributed to Accessibility Knowledge Series by BarrierBreak Technologies and thought, now I should quote that here and add some more tips. Much often, we attend meetings…

  September 19, 2011

• Online Banking Exam and need of a scribe?

  Today, I saw a posting on one of the mailing lists in India requesting for a scribe to write an examination for visually impaired. There’s no surprise in it, but…

  June 23, 2010