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Resuming Bangalore Accessibility Meetups
Greetings on the eve of India’s 70th Independence Day. It’s almost 2 years that we, accessibility enthusiasts in Bangalore, could not meet each other. It was due to that I was relocated to Hyderabad in 2014 (recently moved back), then busy with family as we were blessed with a baby boy about two weeks ago!…
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Accessibility status of state government websites in India
Today, it’s heartening to see there is so much momentum going on to make India inclusive, I thought, it’s important that websites of all state governments are accessible. As I am a believer that inclusion happens when there is awareness created among the stakeholders. So I have done a quick accessibility test using aXe extension…
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WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) seeking inputs for WAI's new site design
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAi) of World Wide Web Consortium is one stop for all resources including guidelines, techniques, checklists, examples related to web accessibility. Education and Outreach Working Group is seeking inputs from community to work on re-design of WAI’s website. The Survey with 57 questions asks very interesting input including what is needed for…
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Accessibility Review: Jobs for People with Disabilities portal by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
Noticed that Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India has launched Job Portal for people with disabilities; which would aim to become a great portal for job seekers with disabilities, employers and training institutes. This is certainly a great initiative although I personally prefer to embed people with disabilities…
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W3C elects new advisory board.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has just announced it’s new advisory board who plays a key role in providing guidance to the team on strategy, legal matters, conflict resolutions etc., The W3C Advisory Committee has filled five open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team…
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Thank you note on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
On the eve of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I would like to thank a few individuals and organizations who have helped and supported me to grow myself in the area of accessibility. Thank you The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka Branch, a place where I started thinking about web accessibility. It all began when…
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Heading Structure – Accessibility Tips
Right heading structure improves user experience and provide easy access to content. It’s essential to mark up using real HTML heading mark-up and not just styling as headings. Often times some developers make text bold, increase font size for headings instead using real HTML mark-up. Why is it essential to use real heading mark-up? When…
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Aadhaar Enrollment Experience – mostly positive but room for improvement
Finally, we got to enroll ourselves to get included with Unique Identification Authority of India at Indiranagar centre, Bangalore. Our experience is quite postive but needs improvement. Staff at the centre are very helpful, accommodate people with disabilities to best possible extent. Even they have filled out part of the form when we missed, courteous…
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India is driving towards inclusion… STOP discrimination
On public mailing lists and social media, I have recently came across a few incidents of discrimination of people with disabilities that prompted me to write this post. First one is about Punjab National Bank, who is troubling a potential customer who happens to be blind to open a Bank account. In spite showing Circular…
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Accessibility round-up Week 1, May 2016
After some gap, we are back with Accessibility round-up. Here is stuff for this week Accessibility by design – IBM [Video] Command line Accessibility Tools Accessibility Testing with NVDA Screen reader by Deque [Video] Events Across the world to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 19, 2016 7 things every designer needs to know…
