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

●Google

●Facebook

●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