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This group focuses on accessibility awareness in India. With India, being an IT, it is important to look at accessibility and build awareness on the web and mobile and ebooks.
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Short communication Paper on multimodal interaction
Alipta Ballav
Posted on:
March 18, 2017
Published a short communication paper on how a configurable multimodal framework can be leveraged to minimize web accessibility problem for disabled users
Is there any case study available on multi-modal interaction
Alipta Ballav
Posted on:
December 21, 2016
Bangalore Accessibility Awareness Dinner & Bangalore Accessibility Meet-ups
Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Posted on:
September 29, 2016
Hello all,
It’s long time that we didn’t catch up! I would like to take a moment and share a couple of things – specially for those of you who live in Bangalore.
Thanks to Ted Drake and Intuit, Bangalore Accessibility Awareness Dinner is being organized on
th
October, 2016 at 7:0m to 9:30 pm.
Venue details will be finalized by Monday but this will be around Ecospace, Bangalore. Visit
Eventbrite page
to register. Looking forward to meeting some of you
In cooperation with companies and organizations in Bangalore, I have been organizing Bangalore Accessibility Meet-up on every 4
th
Saturday of the month. In August, meetup was hosted by
Prakat Solutions
and in September, it was hosted by
Bang the table
. We use this platform to share knowledge and meet fellow accessibility enthusiasts. Summary of earlier meet-ups are available on
My blog
Looking forward to re-start of our weekly / by-weekly calls.
Best,
-Vasu
On a personal front, we are blessed with a baby boy on 29th July, 2016 and our daughter who is 2.10 years now started talking and going to school!
Deque India invites you to be part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2016 – May 19th 2016
Sujasree Kurapati
Posted on:
May 16, 2016
Dear Accessibility Evangelist,
DEQUE India invites you to the 5th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 19, 2016. Please join us to spread the awareness about digital accessibility and be part of creating an inclusive and accessible world for everyone. Looking forward to meet you.
Venue:
T-HUB CATALYST BUILDING, IIIT-H Campus, Gachibowli
Time:
May 19th 2016, 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Agenda:
Accessibility trends, WCAG Overview, A11Y testing with aXe, Intro to mobile A11Y, IAAP certification
Its a free event and registration URL is
Please do let me know in case of any questions.
Thanks & Regards
Sujasree Kurapati
Managing Director
Deque INDIA
91-9908210133
May 19th Global Accessibility Awareness Day – let’s get together and discuss
Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Posted on:
April 28, 2016
Dear Accessibility Community in India,
It’s indeed long time that we got connected. As you may be aware this year
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
happens to be on
19
th
May, 2016
. It would be great for us to get on to a call and discuss what’s happening in India and how we can help each other to mark this occasion.
You may read some
ideas that I have put together
Looking forward to talking to you all soon,
BTW, those of you may not be aware, I’m now moved back to Bangalore, a city that we love and started my new job at
Informatica
earlier this month.
Best,
Vasu
Learning Session 4: Creating Accessible Documents
Ramya Venkitesh
Posted on:
January 13, 2016
Hello Everybody,
Hope you are doing well!
In our last conference call we discussed about how technology can be a part of the ‘Accessibility Index’ by the Accessible India Campaign. (will be sharing the details shortly)
Coming up next is Learning Session 4 – Creating Accessible Documents to be presented by
Srinivasu Chakravarthula,
Deque Software Pvt Ltd.  The session is scheduled to be held on the 20
th
of January 2016, 10 am -11 am (IST).
You are requested to register yourself by clicking on this link
Do share this link with people who would like to be a part of this learning session. For any queries please feel free to write to ramya@barrierbreak.com
Warm Regards
Ramya Venkitesh
Learning Session 3 – Planning Accessibility Testing
Ramya Venkitesh
Posted on:
December 15, 2015
Hello Everybody,
Hope you are doing well!
In our last conference call we had decided that we will start registrations for every calls so that we are aware of the number of people attending the call. Coming up next is
Learning Session 3 – Planning Accessibility Testing
to be presented by
Shilpi Kapoor
, BarrierBreak.
You are requested to register yourself by clicking on this link
Do share this link with people who would like to be a part of this learning session.
For any queries please feel free to write to me.
Warm Regards
Ramya Venkitesh
Minutes of the meeting – 28th October 2015
Ramya Venkitesh
Posted on:
November 3, 2015
Dear All,
We had our conference call on the 28
th
of October, 2015 where we discussed about Accessible India Campaign and how we can support the Government of India by creating awareness on accessibility and assistive technology.
Shilpi Kapoor gave us a detailed information on what is the current status of the Campaign where she mentioned that the Accessible India Campaign mainly focuses on four areas & shared some of the targets set in the strategy paper released by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities:
Barrier-free Infrastructure
Barrier-free Transportation
Accessibility ICT & Websites
Sign Language Interpreters
The implementation on the ground looks very unclear at this stage and we need to support by working on standards and guidelines, training and suggestions for a public procurement policy.
There was discussion on the
accessibility index
which the Government will be unveiling on
December 3
as a part of the campaign, which will rate companies across public and private sectors for disabled -friendly initiatives. There is a need to add accessible websites, technology, products and services to this index beyond hiring of people with disabilities, infrastructure & hr policies.
Block you calendars for the next sessions:
Learning Session -2
has been scheduled for the
18
th
of November 2015
at 10 am – 11 am by
Nawaz
from PayPal on
“Top 10 Accessibility mistakes and why, along with some testing tips”.
On our next conference call the members have decided to discuss
‘how technology can be a part of the accessibility index by the Accessible India Campaign?’
will be on
th
December, 2015,
10 am – 11 am
Wishing you all a very Happy & Prosperous Diwali and looking forward to see you all in our next learning session. And yes, please ensure to spread a word about these calls so that we can have maximum people participating and contributing.
Warm Regards
Ramya
First learning session on WCAG Introduction
Rakesh Paladugula
Posted on:
October 22, 2015
On 14th October, 2015 the first learning session was conducted by the W3c Accessibility India Community Group. Ms. Shilpi Kapoor the chair of the group has hosted the virtual meeting. I am asked to deliver the first learning session on the introduction to WCAG 2.0.
The concepts I could cover in the 30 minutes session are:
What is WCAG
Who WCAG is for
Structure of WCAG.
Levels of WCAG and how are they framed
Supporting documents and the relation with WCAG.
Recent legal suits and settlements
Download the complete
WCAG 2.0 Introduction presentation (.ppt).
Thank You Ms. Shilpi Kapoor for hosting the meet and giving the opportunity. Thank You Sujasree Kurapati and Srinivasu Chakravartula for helping me in finalizing the presentation beside your busy schedules. Thanks each one of the participant for your valuable time.
Suggest a topic for the Learning Sessions
Ramya Venkitesh
Posted on:
October 14, 2015
Hello everybody,
We had our first learning session today which was very well presented by
Mr. Rakesh Paladugula
on the topic ‘Introduction to WCAG 2.0’. Thank You Rakesh.
I would request you all to suggest topics that you would like to have for the ‘Learning Sessions’. Do put in your suggestions in the comment box below and we would try to incorporate them during our learning session conference calls.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Warm Regards
Ramya
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