BarrierBreak and NASSCOM Foundation present an awareness webinar on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
April 26, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 1:10 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility
If you’re a techie, an ecommerce company, a software company, an organization using technology to provide services to its customers, or then a government agency, then here is an opportunity to understand how your product and service can be accessible to a larger audience that includes people with disabilities. BarrierBreak and NASSCOM Foundation come together on May....
Government of Maharashtra & BarrierBreak celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013
April 26, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 12:52 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,Acecssibility Testing,Web
On May 9th, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Government of Maharashtra and BarrierBreak invite students to learn about web technologies and how to make them accessible to all including people with disabilities. This 3 day training aims at creating awareness about web standards, localization and accessibility guidelines. A certificate of participation will be provided to the....
A need for Low Vision Centers
March 20, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 6:35 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT,Independent Living,Libraries,Low Vision
I’ve been thinking of the problem of low vision. Most doctors and surgeons look at eye surgery or then maximum we talk of the glasses to aid a person. Is that really the only thing that we have? What about the 246 million people worldwide who are low vision. Did you know that as per....
Mobile Apps – The future but where is “Accessibility”
February 8, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 7:34 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,Mobile
Walking around AppsWorld North America, it was information overload. So much cool stuff, so much happening. I started the day thinking of let’s hope I can meet some people who are working on accessibility. Some interesting statements that intrigued me by different people. “Make simple apps”. “One task one app” “understand the need, design, build,....
Announcing our New Logo – Creating a Limitless Future
January 17, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 5:39 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,General
Today is another new start for us at BarrierBreak. Over the next week, we will be changing our identity though not our vision. I remember the time when a Mahesh Murthy had told me that the name Net Systems Informatics (I) Pvt Ltd didn’t mean anything to him or didn’t talk of what we did.....
BarrierBreak 2012 – A Recap
January 2, 2013
by Ramya @ 6:01 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,General
Barrierbreak wishes everyone a very Happy New Year – Opening a new book with new hopes, new opportunities, new ideas & experience of the past! Here is a Quick Recap on what we did in 2012. Summary – Recap 2012: Jan: Became the member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Feb: Organized Techshare India....
Fun with Money: A Windows 8 App by Barrierbreak
October 30, 2012
by Ramya @ 10:32 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT,Inclusive Education
Fun with Money: A Windows 8 Education App by Barrierbreak Technologies to teach the basic concept of Money! Are you a parent or a teacher of a child with learning impairment and who would wish to teach their child about ‘Money’? Then here is an interesting Windows 8 education app ‘Fun with Money’:- An attempt by....
Global Accessibility Awareness Day – Mumbai
May 15, 2012
by Ramya @ 2:42 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT,Web
And finally a day for Accessibility too! May 9th 2012 marked the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day and in India, Directorate of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra took the initiative of celebrating the day with the support of Nasscom & Nasscom Foundation, sponsored by Microsoft India and organized by Barrierbreak Technologies. A FREE FOR ALL....
Gaming Experience for the Visually Impaired – Having Fun with Hangman!
September 23, 2011
by Namrata Salian @ 12:37 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,Blind,Low Vision
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
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
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....
