Inclusion and Accessibility(a11y)
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...