Accessibility Knowledge Series III – Mobile Accessibility
November 26, 2009
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 7:01 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,Accessibility Knowledge Series,Assistive Technologies,Developing Technologies,Hearing,Techshare India,Visual
Mobile Accessibility With the advent of technology Mobile Phones are becoming more and more powerful and feature rich devices and are great temptation to have one with us. The visually impaired users are no exception to this. Apart from making and receiving call and to sending SMS a phone is a gadget full of features....
Accessibility is an area that has to be considered as per Indian Goverment WebSite Guidelines!
March 19, 2009
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 1:08 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility Review of Indian Websites,Developing Technologies,General
India has taken the first step ahead in the area of web accessibility. Visit http://web.guidelines.gov.in to access the guideline released by NIC. What i appreciate is that the guideline clearly refers to the W3C WCAG and emphasises the need for including persons with disabilities. This is a positive step and one that the indian IT....
Web Accessibility Development
February 12, 2009
by Mamta Tandel @ 7:01 pm No Comments
Filed under: Developing Technologies,Elderly,General,Hearing,Learning,Mobility,Visual
Web Accessibility refers to making the web site accessible to all, irrespective to the type of disability and the medium which people use. It is crucial that accessibility is looked at on every stage of website development, be it design, content writing and integration. Web Accessibility Development is not drastically different from regular web development.....
BarrierBreak launches “BCAT” – A tool to create Accessible Flash based Elearning course
January 5, 2009
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 9:49 pm No Comments
Filed under: Assistive Technologies,Authoring Technologies,Developing Technologies,Elderly,Flash,Hearing,Learning,Mobility,Visual
Right to education is universal. Education has evolved from blackboard to keyboard. Elearning has broken the geographical barriers and made it possible for people to access knowledge with ease and convenience. Despite the benefits offered by Elearning, it is not possible for students with special needs to access Elearning courses. Students using assistive technologies can....
WCAG 2.0 is finally a proposed recommendation!
November 5, 2008
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 11:32 am No Comments
Filed under: Developing Technologies,General
Finally WCAG 2.0 is a proposed recommendation. We have all been eagerly waiting for this in the Accessibility world. From the WAI: “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented....
Importance of ‘Help’ for Accessibility
April 4, 2008
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 2:18 pm No Comments
Filed under: Flash
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....
Accessibe Flash – Is this possible?
March 24, 2008
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 6:50 pm No Comments
Filed under: Flash
I’ve just come back from CSUN, 2008 and again had the same thoughts through most of my meetings. Mos people didnt even think that flash could be made accessible. I was sitting there and wondering why is this the case? Accessible Flash is surely a possibility and actually is not as painful as most people....
JAWS keystrokes with Accessible Flash
February 21, 2008
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 5:50 pm No Comments
Filed under: Flash
I’ve listed down the common keystrokes which JAWS users use to work with flash. We can also use these for testing flash for accessibility. These keystrokes are available for JAWS 7.0 and above to work with Flash player 8.0 and above. JAWS keystrokes for Flash Keystroke Description ARROW keys To read the text CTRL +....
