Accessible cities
Introduction We moved to Redmond in 2018 and have found the neighborhood to be only partially walkable. None of the traffic signals near my house were access...
Introduction We moved to Redmond in 2018 and have found the neighborhood to be only partially walkable. None of the traffic signals near my house were access...
I tried using the Adobe Firefly tool recently and was blown away with what I can do with it. I never felt as empowered to express as a blind user what I want...
IAccessible features in this month issue of the 425 Business magazine “startups to watch” list. With the industry increasingly realising the importance and b...
I recently travelled to Frankfurt, Germany. As soon as I landed, I ran into the next “circle of accessibility hell” AKA internationalization. Some of the pro...
I purchased a new IRobot Roomba I8+ after my 2 year old Ecovacs Deebot OSMO 930 had started giving me trouble with invalid error messages during clean cycle...
I realized another factor highlighting the importance of fixing accessibility bugs before end users encounter them. The problem that the end users face beca...
I answer a bunch of accessibility questions everyday for testers and developers and more often than not, I do an internet search and find the most reliable, ...
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is annually observed on 3 December to promote the full and equal participation of persons with disa...
Driving accessibility through the Microsoft enterprise internal applications has given me a lot of lessons in influencing the direction of large and chaotic ...
I moved over this site from wordpress to github pages using jekyll last week. I should say I was forced to move this site from wordpress to *** because some ...
I recently played escape room with some family and friends near San Ramon. If you are not familiar with escape room, it is a game where your team is put into...
I have been using the microsoft Soundscape app on the IPhone pretty regularly almost from the day it was first released. The app provides inputs on your geog...
It is tax season again. Very reluctantly, I finally started to file my return last weekend. Last year, I had used TurboTax.com and had a reasonably good expe...
Accessibility discussions in most scenarios cover the Web and more often now mobile apps as well. One area that seems to not have received enough attention i...
I had some friends over this weekend. We were chatting away in my study late into the night. It was about 2 AM and we were in the middle of some “solve the w...
My blog seems to be turning into a complaint board or something looking at the last few posts. I’ll do this one more complaint and then do something else in ...
Google has 4 apps on IOS - maybe more - for communication that I have come across: google voice, allo, Duo, and hangouts. The product people at google probab...
I have set up my mac book pro to run windows virtual machines using parallels. After a lot of hit and trial, I was able to get the following working on earli...
** Update: I just updated to IOS 11.1 and the below issues are now resolved!! ** I updated to IOS 11.0 on the day it was launched but have been struggling wi...
I upgraded to IOS 8.02 last weekend after my curiosity got the better of my skepticism. Using it for just a week has me wishing I had waited for at least 3 m...
If you are in the unfortunate situation of having to use accurev as your source control system and are wondering how to get a screen reader to make any sense...
Firefox | problem with ARIA tag in tbody |
I recently ran into an issue with firefox not rendering a table correctly for use with a screen reader. The table was rendered correctly visually on the scre...
Came across this rather expansively written report on android accessibility or rather the dismal state of things in the android accessibility world. having t...
Came across this update on accessibility in the upcoming Firefox OS. The developers seem to be going in the right direction. I wish they will involve users r...