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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