Dear All, As we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we invite you today at 9 PM on Twitter spaces to join us in our pannel discussion with Amar Jain and Ratul Arora to learn the nuances of accessibility from the legal and technical lenses. The link of the same will be shared by 8-50 pm.
Our team has also put together an information capsule to spread awareness about digital accessibility. We encourage you to disseminate this information as widely as possible. And yes don't forget to tag our respective social media handel INFORMATION CAPSULE: CELEBRATING GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS DAY: 1. Describe digital accessibility (DA)? DA is a process of making the website / applications usable for persons with disabilities by following universal standards E.G. Web Consortium Accessibility Guidelines of W3C. 2. DA barriers and solutions for blind · Keyboard interaction- provide keyboard access for each navigable element as blind people are unable to see mouse pointer. · Naming of elements-each element should be labeled and named appropriately for being readable by screen reader. · Alt tag-images should be described by alt tag as they are not machine readable. 3. Expert Advice DA professional designs, deploys, performs automated and manual audits and remediates websites and apps for inaccessibility. CREDITS: Ratul Arora, an executive council member of BGFI is an “Accessibility Evangelist” presently working with one of largest IT consulting company as a Test Engineering Analyst. He is a certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, Section 508 U.S. Rehabilitation Act Trusted Tester and Web and Document Accessibility Specialist from Deque University. Contact Ratul at: ratular...@gmail.com #GAAD2021 #A11Y #WCAG #AccessibilityMatters #DigitalAccessibility -- Regards Blind Graduates Forum of India. Phone: 9892145699 Website: www.bgfi.in follow us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blind-graduates-forum-of-india Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/bgfifacebook Twitter: https://twitter.com/blind_grads YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEvshxvn7YC9kBz4LDngasA -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAFGu2%2B5sC2Dcn%2BKD_MW1gHLeduK2CFs30oORDJHxSOjS8bVMFw%40mail.gmail.com.
