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Yahoo! India wins 2010 Universal Design Awards

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Universal Design award receivers on stage with awards in hand

August 19, 2010

Yahoo! India Research & Development has been making great progress in the field of accessibility. The successful collaboration between product, engineering, and quality teams to make Yahoo! properties universally accessible, is showing signs of success.

In recognition of these efforts, the National Center for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), in association with AccessAbility and BarrierBreak Technologies, has awarded the Mphasis Universal Design Company Award to Yahoo! India R&D! for the year 2010. This award was given to Yahoo! India in the category of companies or organizations who have taken up the cause of accessibility and universal design.

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Part I: Assistive Technology and Accessibility Research in the Developing World

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

The spread of research and scientific capacity in the developing world has been an area of intense discussion for several years within the public health community. The simple statistic that approximately 10% of global research monies are devoted to diseases that impact 90% of the world’s population is explained by the fact that such disease burden is primarily borne in the developing world. Likewise, much new Assistive Technology (AT) research funding goes towards technologies designed for use by people in the regions where they are researched – the industrialized world.

Assistive Technologies are arguably indispensable for the social inclusion of people with disabilities for independent, expedient daily interaction in the public domain anywhere in the world, irrespective of the level of economic development and infrastructure. For most persons with vision impairments, the use of AT can be vital for participation in a work force that is increasingly digital in nature. However, technology in this space remains prohibitively expensive.
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AT in the Clouds

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Maybe you’ve heard of the cloud. Depending on who you ask the cloud is the secret to making your business more efficient, the future of computing, a simple revisit to the client-server architectures of the past, or the dangerous aggregation of your data in the hands of a third party. Beyond the hype, the cloud has the potential to dramatically improve the availability of access technology (AT); research is forging the path to putting our AT in the clouds. Continue reading AT in the Clouds

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Why Accessibility Research

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

In my inaugural post, I thought I’d address a fundamental question for this blog – why accessibility research?

I get this question a lot, and askers come from nearly every camp – academia, industry, and advocates. Accessibility research is a label, and behind most labels is a dogma, something that differentiates that label from others and provides an implicit argument for its existence. Here’s why I think accessibility research needs to exist.

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