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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…
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Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Operable
This is 2 of 4 in our series to put together an updated web accessibility checklist. As mentioned in our earlier post Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Perceivable, this post may get updated once Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 becomes candid recommendation. (Reminder: last working draft is out; have your say soon!). In this…
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Tips to make your website more accessible
This is a guest post by Jackie Edwards. All websites need to cater to all of their users, including those with disabilities, but sadly many websites do not. For instance, in India all government websites are required to follow guidelines that ensure that the websites are accessible to everyone, but a survey of over 1,000…
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Accessibility beyond the legal requirement
On 6th December, 2017 – I have got an opportunity to speak at Thomson Reuters as part of their events on the eve of International Week of People with Disabilities. It was fabulous to see participants from diverse groups. I have talked about how accessibility creates more impact and benefits other than just a checklist…
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@MSFTEnable – you rock! A quick experience with Microsoft Teams
I recently got introduced to Microsoft Teams at my workplace. I usually try anything that comes in my way. So as usual, I had set up and created groups that I want to use. Then I noticed team has different bots that a user can use and I chose to use “Secretary bot”. It was…
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Updated Web Accessibility Checklist – Perceivable
Back in 2010, we have published a Quick Web Accessibility Checklist that received a good response and we have also received a good feedback. It’s true that users prefer to have a quick checklist along with large documentation to achieve their accessibility mission. So we are bringing you this updated Web Accessibility Checklist reflecting success criterions of…
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Re-building website on wordpress? Checklist to consider!
As you may have noticed, for a few weeks, there have been frequent changes in the design and features on our website. Yes, we have been working on to give a new look to ServeOM Inclusion’s website; and we want to continue using WordPress as our favorite authoring tool! We love WordPress because of it’s…
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Accessibility Collection – week of 6th November, 2017
We have just started a new initiative to post our collection of accessibility related articles and other stuff on a weekly basis. We aim to post this on every Thursday. Nailing Accessibility Designs Uber introduces UberACCESS and UberASSIST to provider better commute services to people with disabilities in partnership with MphasiS South African students create…
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Chrome Extensions to improve browsing experience
I was looking out for how Google Chrome can be used efficiently and during my search, came across interesting extensions to improve experience of browsing on Google Chrome. These extensions can be found on Chrome Extensions Web Store. Some of the extensions are: High Contrast: Change or revert colour schemes to make the page easy to…
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How to add alternate text to images?
Authors note: This is a re-published post due to an unavoidable technical issue. In continuation to our post <alt> Campaign: Let’s make images on the web accessible, here are a few tips on how to add alternate text on different platforms. In all platforms, ensure that your alternate text is meaningful. Add alternate text in…
