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Accessibility around the world since Jan 2016Srinivasu Chakravarthula • 27.08.2016
Overview
Events and Conferences
W3C Update
Government Update
Corporate Update
State of accessibility jobs
Events and Conferences
Accomplishment 1Techshare India 2016
CSUN 2016
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Accessible India Campaign
Workability Asia 2016
Launch of National Accessible Library (SugmayaPustakalaya.in)
ABC Index of Accessible Publishing by XRCVC
Deque Trainings
Launch of Enable Academy
W3C Update
Accomplishment 1Low Vision Task Force
Cognitive Task Force
Mobile Task Force
New videos on understanding a11y
WCAG 2.0 extension
Updated Quick Ref documents
Government Update
Risk 1Hopefully Section 508 Refresh
later this year
A serious action at Government of India through Accessible India Campaign
EU has adopted WCAG 2.04
Austraia released policy of Accessibility in procurement of ICT
Government of Khatar has released accessibility policy
Corporate Update
●Microsoft
●Accenture
●HCL
●Informatica
●Visa
●PayPal
●BarrierBreak
●247AccessibleDocuments.com
Accessibility Jobs in India
Assignment 1● Adobe
● BarrierBreak
● HCL
● Thought Works (Future)
What we can do?
1.Assessment
2.Raising Awareness
3.Training
Continued meet-ups
Thank you
