Pressing the Shift key five times
October 30, 2007
by Priti Rohra @ 7:10 pm No Comments
Filed under: Disability
While talking on the phone one might unknowingly press different keys on the keyboard. I was doing the same thing and suddenly the StickyKeys dialog box appeared. This was the first time I came across the StickyKeys feature of Windows XP. By pressing the Shift key five times, the StickyKeys dialog box gets activated. This....
Accessible Flash
October 26, 2007
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 5:58 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility
Hi, this is my first post on accessible Flash. To start off, we will not go into the complicated stuff, rather I will introduce you to some basic concepts we should think of while making Flash accessible. Flash offers a great deal of accessibility options to the developers. The main part of accessibility in Flash....
Spastics Society of Karnataka join hands with IBM India and PACER
October 25, 2007
by Priti Rohra @ 3:18 pm No Comments
Filed under: General
On 24th October 2007 at Bangalore, Spastics Society of Karnataka (SSK) joined hands with IBM India and PACER centre to launch India’s first full fledged Assistive Technology centre. The centre is expected to start in the early part of 2008. SSK’s Assistive Technology centre for Education and Life Skills Training is modeled upon PACER centre’s....
Would India ratifying the UN Convention on Rights of PWD have any impact?
October 25, 2007
by Mamta Tandel @ 12:52 pm No Comments
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On October 1, 2007 India ratified the UN Convention on rights of people with disabilities (PWD). UN convention on rights of PWD promotes, protects and ensures that people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with others. According to Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi to the UN....
Browsealoud Makes your Website Talk
October 23, 2007
by Priti Rohra @ 2:52 pm No Comments
Filed under: Disability
While surfing the Internet last evening, I came across a nice tool which is capable of reading websites, PDF documents and Word files. So I thought of sharing it with you’ll about the same. The tool is ‘Browsealoud’. Browsealoud, a tool by Text Help systems is a free tool for users. However, website owners need....
Hello to All!
October 22, 2007
by Priti Rohra @ 9:35 am No Comments
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Hi, I am Priti Rohra. I am an Accessibility Tester at BarrierBreak Technologies. I test software, websites, Elearning applications, PDF documents, Office documents etc keeping in mind the users need as well as different accessibility guidelines such as WCAG 1.0 and Section 508. I am visually impaired and use different screen readers for performing my....
Getting Started
October 22, 2007
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 7:56 am No Comments
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Hi, I’m Vivek Gaikwad. I’m a flash developer with a focus on Accessibility. I manage e-Learning and Accessibility team at net systems. I’ve got a background in creating and implementing accessibility in different e-learning courses and games. Also, I’m always keen on finding out how to make things accessible for users with different types of....
Welcome to BarrierBreak Technologies!
October 22, 2007
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 6:14 am No Comments
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Welcome to BarrierBreak Technologies. As a new initiative, we are starting a blog on assistive technology and accessibility. For the next two weeks, we are beta testing the website and blog and any suggestions are welcome at webmaster@barrierbreak.com Just to introduce myself, I am Shilpi, the Managing Director of BarrierBreak. Me and my team would....
ClassMate Reader, a tool to assist students with print disabilities
October 18, 2007
by Priti Rohra @ 1:17 pm No Comments
Filed under: Print Disabled
ClassMate Reader is an exciting new tool to assist students with learning, visual and mobility disabilities developed by Humanware. The tool is capable of playing books available in different electronic formats including NIMAS, DAISY, MP3, text, audio files, wav as well as books available on Bookshare.org and Audible.com etc. ClassMate Reader is a portable, light-weight....
Google’s Hindi Translator
October 17, 2007
by Mamta Tandel @ 12:37 pm No Comments
Filed under: General
Hey this is a must see tool by Google, an amazing Hindi Translator. All you need is to type in text as you would in normal word editor and it gets converted into Hindi text! http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/ Regards,....
