Techshare India 2008 Presentations are now available online!!
April 29, 2008
by Priti Rohra @ 11:25 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT
Techshare India 2008, the first accessibility conference and exhibition held in New Delhi included a range of presentations by speakers across the world. The presentations were on different topics including Web Accessibility, PDF accessibility, Flash Accessibility, Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), Section 508 etc. Some of the speakers who presented at Techshare India include Brian....
United Nation (UN) convention on the rights of people with disabilities will be coming to force on 3rd May 2008…
April 9, 2008
by Priti Rohra @ 6:59 pm No Comments
Filed under: General
On 3rd April 2008, Ecuador became the 20th country to ratify the UN convention on the rights of people with disabilities. This has resulted in the treaty coming in to force on 3rd May 2008. Following is the list of 20 countries, who have ratified the convention: Bangladesh – 30 November 2007 Croatia – 15....
Importance of ‘Help’ for Accessibility
April 4, 2008
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 2:18 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility
Although the topic seems small, ‘Help Screen’ plays an important role in making any application accessible/usable. In our typical developer role we create all the fantastic things in an application, we provide keyboard shortcuts, alternative text for images, descriptions for buttons and images, various ways of handling different things in the course etc… but we....
