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March 19, 2009
Accessibility is an area that has to be considered as per Indian Goverment WebSite Guidelines!
Filed under: Accessibility Review of Indian Websites, Developing Technologies, General — Shilpi Kapoor @ 1:08 pmIndia has taken the first step ahead in the area of web accessibility. Visit http://web.guidelines.gov.in to access the guideline released by NIC. What i appreciate is that the guideline clearly refers to the W3C WCAG and emphasises the need for including persons with disabilities.
This is a positive step and one that the indian IT industry should also adher to.
No CommentsMarch 13, 2009
Apple’s Accessible iPod shuffle that talks!!
Filed under: Elderly, General, Mobility, Visual — Priti Rohra @ 3:33 pmApple’s latest iPod shuffle comes with VoiceOver that provides complete speech support while listening to your favorite music. Whether you want to listen to the song title, artist’s name or navigate between multiple play lists, it provides complete speech output without interrupting the music. Thus making it possible to control your iPod without requiring to look at the screen while you are in the middle of work-out, driving or reading a news paper.
The biggest advantage of this iPod is it is accessible for people with visual and mobility disabilities. All the controls of the iPod are present on the ear bud, thus removing the problems associated with Touch pad navigation for people with vision and dexterity impairments. This will make it possible for people with visual impairments to listen to the music as per their mood rather then listening to the music in the default order, being stored on their player.
Above all the in-built VoiceOver comes with support for 14 languages; it’s very small in size and has 4 GB storage capacity!!
Time to enjoy music!!!
Priti
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