Chronicles Of Testing

Along with Parimala Hariprasad ,  I was selected to co-present the  workshop titled " Designing for Inclusiveness – Workshop on Accessibility" at  EuroSTAR  2019. I had, in the year 2015 attended EuroSTAR as a Test Lab Apprentice and had aspired to speak in any of the future events.  Due to certain shortcomings, we both could not make it this year.  So I am sharing a few points here as an introduction to learning accessibility(a11y). Preparation for the workshop began by defining a11y, inclusion, and exclusion to ourselves. We began learning about a11y by understanding the definition of  inclusion  and by identifying what is excluded when designing the software for a11y requirements. It was then, did I realize that there is no absolute inclusion and exclusion and t hat there is  partial inclusion  when addressing a11y requirements.  In firms that don't only work on a11y, it is usually defined by referring to a context that we c...

Accessibility - The attribute of being easy to meet or deal with. This article focuses on: Access to information versus access to right information. While accessibility guidelines are followed and accessibility is being built into web pages, the guidelines themselves are brief and requires detail. Excerpts from  https://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?fuseAction=stdsSum Video or Multimedia Products (1194.24) Multimedia products involve more than one media and include, but are not limited to, video programs, narrated slide production, and computer generated presentations. Provisions address caption decoder circuitry (for any system with a screen larger than 13 inches) and secondary audio channels for television tuners, including tuner  cards for use in computers. The standards also require captioning and audio description for certain training and informational multimedia productions developed or  procured by Federal agencies. The standards also provide...