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June 05, 2009

National Workshop on Web Accessibility

A National Workshop on Web Accessibility is being organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (www.cis-india.org) from June 5 to 7, 2009 in Bangalore. The workshop is meant for web developers and aims at highlighting the importance of creating accessible web sites.

The workshop intends to educate web developers, from public as well as of private sector organisations, on how to incorporate accessibility features into existing web sites as well as those being newly developed.

The workshop will comprise of conceptual as well as hands-on sessions. The trainers are specialists in various aspects of web accessibility. The main focus will be on WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The participants are expected to have good knowledge of HTML, XML, CSS, etc.

More information on program schedule, speakers and registration details are available at http://www.cis-india.org/events/national-workshop-on-web-accessibility-june-2009

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June 04, 2009

Infosys iProwe: Product for Web Accessibility Assessment and Remediation

A few months back, we launched Infosys iProwe, which is a product in the domain of Web Accessibility Assessment & Remediation. Infosys iProwe is a patent pending Web Accessibility Assessment and Remediation Product from the Web 2.0 Research Lab. About 20% of the global population suffers from some form of disability and a large part of the World Wide Web (about 97%) is not accessible to this disabled population.  Disabilities include visually challenges users of screen readers, hearing impaired users, low-vision users, color-blind users, users with a motor disability, and users with cognitive disabilities. iProwe leverages built-in intelligence to automatically analyse the accessibility issues of Websites and recommends remedial measures to make Websites accessible. iProwe provides comprehensive assessment and recommendation at the same time drastically reducing the time, cost, effort as well as errors involved in assessing and fixing Web accessibility issues. iProwe is targeted at enterprises with an online presence and it enables enterprises to achieve enhanced Web accessibility for differently-abled users better, faster and cheaper. iProwe is an enabler for enterprises planning their Web Accessibility strategy from dimensions including legal, economic as well as corporate social responsibility. Accessibility is a requirement from a legal perspective (legal regulations enforcing accessibility requirements), economic perspective (large potential customer base) as well as a corporate social responsibility perspective.

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