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Accessibility Overview
Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Agenda● About Deque & Me
● What’s Accessibility
● Who does it help?
● Why Accessibility is important?
● Accessibility Guidelines
● Accessibility Laws
● Deque Products and Services
● Deque University
● Q & A + Thank you
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About Deque and Me● Global leader in the area of
Accessibility
● Digital Accessibility is both our mission and vision
● 15+ years serving Government, Corporate and other organizations
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● Accessibility SME● A decade of experience● Formerly worked at BarrierBreak,
Yahoo, PayPal and HCL ● Accessibility is not just day job but
close to heart● Loves networking, swimming, chess
and carom● Lives with wife and cute little Varshi
What’s Accessibility?
Ensuring product has equal access to everyone including people with disabilities, elderly and those affected by situation
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Who does it help?
● People with disabilities
● Elderly
● Users having temporary disabilities
● Low band width users
● Technologies such as Search engines
● Mobile users
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Why accessibility is important?
●Increase customer base
●Increase trust
●Improves the quality of product in general
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Accessibility Guidelines
● Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
● Accessible Rich Internet Applications
● User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
● Authoring Technology Accessibility Guidelines
● Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
● Section 9 of United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Accessibility Laws
● Section 508 (US)
● European Accessibility Act
● Australia Disability Discrimination Act
● New Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill (India) - To be passed
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Deque Products and Services
●FireEyes
●WorldSpace
●Amaze
●aXe
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Cont.…
Deque Products and Services
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● Accessibility Assessments
● Accessibility Fixes
● Education
● Strategy for Compliance
Deque University
●Offers wide range of Accessibility courses
●Online
●Instructor-lead training
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Q & A - Thank you!
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