Whats accessibility

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What’s Accessibility?
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This was a lightning talk presented by Vikrant Chauhan in vodQA-10 : Going Beyond the Usual held in ThoughtWorks, Pune on 13th October

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What’s Accessibility?

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Definition

The degree to which a product, device, service or environment is available to as many people as possibleIt can be viewed as the “ability to access”

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Accessibility in day to day life

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What is relation with Computing?

"For people without disabilities, technology makes things convenient. For people with disabilities, it makes things possible.”

Judith Heumann

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Computing Accessibility key issues

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Importance of Accessibility

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Examples

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Accessible websites

E.g. London Olympics website: http://www.london2012.com/

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Tools to test Web accessibility

WAVEFirefox Accessibility Extention

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