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World of Assistive Technologies - Srinivasu Chakravarthula Accessibility Manager

World of Assistive Technologies - Srinivasu Chakravarthula Accessibility Manager. Overview. Internet is sea of information They help people with disabilities to join the main stream of the society They help people with disabilities to perform any task. People include…. Situational Disability

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World of Assistive Technologies - Srinivasu Chakravarthula Accessibility Manager

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  1. World of Assistive Technologies- Srinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Manager

  2. Overview • Internet is sea of information • They help people with disabilities to join the main stream of the society • They help people with disabilities to perform any task

  3. People include… • Situational Disability • Reaching late to venue… Traffic in city • Oops! My mouse stopped working, what do I do? • Text is too small on this webpage, how do I read this? • Functional Disability • Visually impaired • Mobility impaired • Hard of hearing • Learning disability • Autism, CP

  4. Some facts… • As per WHO, there are about 600 million people with disabilities across the world • In India alone, there are about 70 million • There is a rapid development in the area of assistive technology industry!

  5. AT for visually impaired and deaf blind • Screen readers • Screen magnifiers • Refreshable Braille Display

  6. AT for Mobility impaired • Track ball • Head mounted mouse • Voice recognition software • Switch

  7. Hearing impaired • Induction loop • TTY

  8. Learning Disabilities • Word prediction software • AAVAZ by Invention labs

  9. W3C and WCAG • Develops interoperable technologies • Specifications • Guidelines • Software • Tools • Why would they do it? • To lead web to its potential and for consistency on web… • WCAG – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines • A Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from W3C • Currently WCAG 2.0 is official recommendation http://www.w3.org/tr/wcag20

  10. Accessibility Testing - Automated • WAVE – http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar • Firefox Accessibility extension • Add-ons of Mozilla Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibility&cat=all

  11. Manual Testing • Screen Readers • NVDA – http://www.nvda-project.org • JAWS for Windows – http://www.freedomscientific.com • Screen Magnifiers • ZoomText Xtra – http://www.aisquared.com • Dolphin Supernova – http://www.yourdolphin.com • Alternate Input devices – • Track ball and switch – http://www.ablenetinc.com • Dragon Naturally Speaking • http://www.nuance.com • Talks – a screen reader for mobile S60 phones • http://www.nuance.com/talks/

  12. Thank You

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