Disability:in 2024
IAccessible was present at the Disability:in conference for the first time this year in Las Vegas. It was one of the best represented conferences I have atte...
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2024
Self driving - the future is here!
I had my first opportunity to ride in a self driving car this week in San Fransisco. It was a surreal experience. The car was a google waymo and it was drivi...
Don’t touch for touch’s sake
ever since the IPhone made touch screens the most disruptive change in the world of technology, product makers seem to have gone overboard with touch. It see...
HaptX
Thanks to Markku Hakkanen for giving me the opportunity to experience the HaptX gloves. While Mark mentions the use of these gloves for Braille, in my mind, ...
Tactile models
I recently visited Salsburg, Austria, a city I knew as the place where they made the movie “The sound of music”. I purchased a walking tour for the city and ...
Human bias
Last week, I visited Vienna, Austria. The city, with its accommodating public transport, pedestrian-friendly streets, and excellent wine, seemed to embrace i...
Include: Culture Change - accessibility beyond compliance
IAccessible hosted its second event in the Include series on 29th of February 2024 at Microsoft Reactor building 20 on the topic: Accessibility Beyond Compli...
announcing culture change - accessibility beyond compliance, the next Include series event
IAccessible will have its second “Include” series event hosted by Manish Agrawal on the 29th of February at the Microsoft Reactor building 20:
Include: AI and Accessibility
We had our first event in IAccessible’s “Include” series in December at the beautiful Microsoft Reactor location. More than 70 accessibility enthusiasts came...
2023
announcing the Include series first event
We are looking forward at IAccessible for an insightful evening as we delve into AI’s impact on accessibility on the 14th of December at Microsoft’s Campus i...
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...
Adobe Firefly – drawing with Generative AI as a blind user
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...
2022
IAccessible in 425 Business magazine’s startups to watch
IAccessible features in this month issue of the 425 Business magazine “startups to watch” list. With the industry increasingly realising the importance and b...
Internationalization and Accessibility
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...
2021
Companies that build accessible products build better products
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...
Accessibility feedback is very hard to provide for consumers
I realized another factor highlighting the importance of fixing accessibility bugs before end users encounter them. The problem that the end users face beca...
Alt text best practices
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, ...
Did society set us up for failure on accessibility and inclusion
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...
2020
Influence without authority
Driving accessibility through the Microsoft enterprise internal applications has given me a lot of lessons in influencing the direction of large and chaotic ...
Wordpress is inaccessible
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 ...
2018
escape room games
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...
Soundscape and blindsquare
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...
TurboTax – Do they care about their customers?
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 of toys
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...
Amazon Alexa – The scary laugh
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...
2017
IOS 11.1 email issues
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 communication apps – design problems
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...
Voice over on Mac OS High Sierra and problems running parallels
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...
IOS 11.0 voice over issues
** 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...
2014
voice over users – avoid IOS 8.02!
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...
Accurev client for windows accessibility
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...
A report on Android Accessebility
Came across this rather expansively written report on android accessibility or rather the dismal state of things in the android accessibility world. having t...
Firefox OS accessibility
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...