Accessibility Meet-up August 2013 – Summary
Today was a mess. I was on my way to the August month’s Bangalore Accessibility Meet up and our car got stuck on the way and we had to spend a tremendous amount of time to reach out to...
Read More →Accessibility Round up – 12th August 2013
Word press 3.7 will get rid of <title> attribute Industry Coalition attempts to make e-Readers inaccessible What’s Quick Navigation mode in VoiceOver screen reader for Mac OS X by Victor Tsaran Esc key to close modal dialogs and menus...
Read More →Accessibility Round-up 1st August, 2013
Sorry folks for long wait for this post due to some unavoidable reasons:-( Call for papers – Techshare India 2014 now open. Due 1st September, 2013 Register for Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up August 2013 Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up July 2013 WebAIM’s...
Read More →Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up July 2013 – a Thank you note!
Inspired by Ted Drake of Intuit, who initiated and hosted Bangalore Accessibility Dinner back in May, 2013, I thought, we should continue the momentum. Thanks to the The National Association for the Blind, Karntaka Branch for their support with...
Read More →Page titles, what is that all about?
This is going to be a quick post, but something very essential. <title> is something that represent your web page and it is indeed helpful specially those who opens multiple websites on different tabs. Page <title> should convey the...
Read More →Accessibility Round-up July 11th 2013
We have started posting our favorites from different sources as weekly round up and these will be published both here and W3C’s Accessibility In India Community Group. Able2Fly – improving accessible travel by Disability Horizons NCPEDP – MphasiS Universal...
Read More →SkipTo plugin by PayPal Accessibility Team – an enhancement to SkipTo links
Did you remember our post on Skip links – what, why and how?. In that article, we have seen how skip links would benefit users who uses screen readers or keyboard only but wouldn’t it be cool if Skip...
Read More →"alt" – What, Why, How and When?
Today, we see that web content is increasing with a rocket speed and more often we see non-textual elements on the websites and applications. let’s consider scenarios such as: Due to bandwidth reason, if images are not loaded on...
Read More →Accessibility options and browser accessibility options
As you may have noticed, some websites specially those are related to news have a tiny text and often difficult to read and more difficult for people with low vision or those elderly. But the argument from the authors...
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