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Accessibility Review: IRCTC Next Generation Ticketing System portal
IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation) has recently revamped it’s portal and good news is that users do not require to login to check availability of tickets, search trains etc., Here is a quick review from accessibility prospective. As the site loads, a banner appears talking about 48 months of NDA government but keyboard focus…
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is now official
On 5th June, 2018 Web Accessibilty Initiative of World Wide Web Consortium has announced that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has become official recommendation as standard. There has been tremendous efforts by Accessibility Guidelines Working Group which includes task forces for Cognitive, Low Vision and Mobile users. This is an evolution of W3C’s accessibility guidance, including expansion…
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Nominations are open for NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2018
Are you a person with disability and have done incredible work in the area of accessibility and universal design? Are you a working professional working towards the cause of building an inclusive society? Are you an organization believes in universal design and working towards it? Are you someone developed a product or service that works…
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New in Android Accessibility
I was watching What’s new in Android Accessibility? and here is my quick notes. It’s great to see our good friend Victor Tsaran on the stage of Google I/O. Sound Amplifier – to help increase audio quality on your android and avoid sound disturbances around the user. The way i was explained was amazing that…
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WCAG 2.1 is now a proposed recommendation
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has become a proposed recommendation a while ago. This is possibly a last step before a standard becomes W3C recommendation. In short, this process is to confirm if required corrections are made. Here is what it means in the words of W3C. 7.6.4 Call for Review of Proposed Corrections Document…
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day: beyond digital accessibility
It’s true that most of the events being planned to observe Global Accessibility Awareness Day are focused on digital accessibility. This is not because someone doesn’t like about other aspects. It is happening just due to most people who are involved or hosting GAAD are from technology background. There is no restriction to observe GAAD only in…
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Using WAVE – an Accessibility Evaluation tool by WebAIM – #GAADSeries
This is a guest post by Kameshwari Devi Kiran Kumar This article briefly explanes how to use the WAVE tool to test accessibility for a website. There are primarily two methods of using the tool: Entering the URL of the website you would like to test into the ‘Webpage address’ textbox given for the purpose…
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WCAG 2.1 is now a candid recommendation
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group of W3C has published WCAG 2.1 as a candid recommendation (CR). Purpose of CR is to ensure that standard can be implemented. Results of this exercise will be made available on WCAG 2.1 Implementation report once it’s completed. Working group plans to complete this by June 2018. What’s new in WCAG…
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Accessibility of Payments
This is a talk being presented at 50p Conference on 9th February 2018. Slides Below are the slides and full text will be made available soon. Video Full Text Hello Everyone, My name is Srinivasu, I lead accessibility at Informatica. I’m also Founder of ServeOM Inclusion – a platform to raise awareness about accessibility. I…
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Year in Review 2017
It has been a transforming, exciting and a fantastic year! Highlights of Accessibility developments in 2017 across the world. W3C is all set to roll-out Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 More people are certified by International Association of Accessibility Professionals Mobile Accessibility Practices are published by a group of people to help Government of…
