Gaming Experience for the Visually Impaired – Having Fun with Hangman!
September 23, 2011
by Namrata Salian @ 12:37 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Gaming Zones
I had played Hangman game at BarrierBreak Technologies for the first time. I had immense pleasure while playing the game. Basically, the computer chooses any common word and tells us how many letters is present in the word. We have to guess the word letter by letter. We get 10 chances to guess the letters....
My experience with CDAC website
September 23, 2011
by Bhavesh Patel @ 12:31 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Accessibility Review of Indian Websites
Before writing my experience with the website, let me briefly tell you what the website is about. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. The website....
Colour Contrast Analyzer now avaliable in Hindi!
September 21, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:37 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility Testing, Localisation, Uncategorized, Visual
As a step towards Web Accessibility, BarrierBreak Technologies has localized the Color Contrast Analyzer Tool into Hindi to help developers check the foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness. The same can be downloaded....
Gaming Party for visually impaired on 28th September at Mumbai
September 12, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 11:17 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Visual
BarrierBreak Club has always been organizing enterprising & innovative events, and now we are happy to invite you to this UNIQUE & ENTERTAINING Gaming Party once a month on Wednesdays absolutely FREE OF COST. These games will be challenging and rejuvenating and will bring back your good old childhood gaming desires. This innovative gaming party....
Inclusive activity at office: Played the game of Housie with a Difference!
July 8, 2011
by Priti Rohra @ 2:18 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Alternate Formats, Children, General
Activity time at office and the decision was to play the game of Housie. People got excited and every one asked for different prizes. Suddenly a thought came to mind, how would we play the game so as to include all the employees, such as people with visual impairments, hearing impairments, mobility impairments and learning....
Why is accessibility testing with persons with disabilities critical to accessibility?
June 21, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:55 am 1 Comment
Filed under: Accessibility, Accessibility Lab, Accessibility Testing, Assistive Technologies, Banking, Banking & Accessibility, Deaf-Blind, Elderly, Guidelines for Indian Government Websites, Hearing, Learning, Mobility, Online Portals, Online service websites & Accessibility, Speech, Visual
For all the web development and software development companies in India who are working on accessibility, I would like to invite you’ll to remove some time from your schedule and visit the BarrierBreak Accessibility Lab. Often, when people come to our office in Mumbai and see a demo of their own website or then of....
Rehabilitation – Low Vision Centers in India.
June 20, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 12:26 pm 1 Comment
Filed under: Assistive Technologies, Visual
As a part of rehabilitation and empowerment of the visually impaired, we need to see more low vision centers setup across India. Over the past 6 months, my team has been visiting numerous Optometrist and Opthalmologists and one of the things that has become evident, is that very few of them are working with assistive....
Online Shopping – Increase your target audience and revenue by including persons with disabilities.
June 6, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 9:17 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Accessibility Testing, Online Portals, Online service websites & Accessibility
How difficult is it to go to the corner bookstore for a person on a wheelchair or then a visually impaired person? In a country like India where barrier free infrastructure is a struggle, how do people with disabilities shop for books, movies, etc. Online Shopping websites like Ebay and Flipkart can ease the lives of....
