DAISY Consortium has just announced the launch of Simply reading app (on Android) – a simple and intuitive app to read ePub books. Interface of the app looks rich and simple; works for everyone including users with disabilities. App does include a getting started guide which also has list of gestures that ca be used with and without talk back screen reader.
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New in Android Accessibility
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I was watching What’s new in Android Accessibility? and here is my quick notes. It’s great to see our good friend Victor Tsaran on the stage of Google I/O.
On 5th June, 2018 Web Accessibilty Initiative of World Wide Web Consortium has announced that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has become official recommendation as standard. There has been tremendous efforts by Accessibility Guidelines Working Group which includes task forces for Cognitive, Low Vision and Mobile users. This is an evolution of W3C’s accessibility guidance, including expansion of mobile, low vision, and cognitive and learning provisions. It maintains W3C’s accessibility guidance, while maintaining W3C’s standard of implementable, technology neutral, objectively testable and universally applicable accessibility guidance.
Starting version 61, Mozilla Firefox comes with Accessibility Inspector within developer tools. However, Accessibility Inspector is not enabled by default reason being shown that as of now while accessibility inspector is turned on, users are experiencing some performance issues using other developer tools.
App review: 6by6 by BarrierBreak
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This is another innovation in the assistive technology space from India. 6by6 By BarrierBreak has 3 amazing features to assist people with low vision and vision impairment. Here is a review of it’s 3 features and how they could help users.
On National Voters Day, Karnataka government pledges accessible voting for everyone
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National Voter’s day on 25 January is a day dedicated to bringing together the youth to vote and take part in the political process. This…
The India Art Fair is back! The 2019 edition of this four-day prestigious art event brings together an incredible collection of art by more than…
Kochi is hosting one of the biggest art festivals in the world, the Kochi Muziris Biennale. Artists from across the world are in Kochi to…
Fact check by disability advocacy group on voting day in Rajasthan throws up gaps in accessible election promises
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It’s not just the 22 lakh missing voters in Telangana that the the Election Commission of India (ECI) is getting flak for. A fact-check of…
Disability changed her life but not her passion to heal. In My Take this week, we have Dr Divya Singh, a pediatrician in Ranchi, who…