Chord Assist: The accessible smart guitar
Technological innovations provide solutions and workarounds to numerous issues we face in our routine day to day lives. Chord Assist attempts to alleviate one such issue for accessible users.
VR helps kids with autism feel comfortable with new places
Virtual Reality (VR) provides realistic and entertaining experience commonly in interactive gaming experiences among others.
Accessible feature for Power Point presentations - Real time captions
Many of us encounter situations where some of our audience may be hard of hearing and we don't have a sign language interpreter.
What are the laws relevant to Civil Rights ?
Generally speaking it deals with individual’s right to freedom and equal treatment without being subject to discrimination based on certain characteristics.
ADA vs Section 508
ADA stands for Americans with Disabilities Act. It is a broad civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in Employment, Architectural Design
AODA
AODA stands for Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Government of Ontario passed into law the Ontarians with Disabilities Act in 2001.
WCAG
Web Content Accessibilities Guidelines are a set of universally accepted technical specifications that explains how digital content can be made accessible and understood by people touched by disabilities.
Wheelchair Accessible Sites on Google Maps
For Year 2020 GAAD, Google Maps introduced a new feature that displays wheelchair accessible sites simply by turning on “Accessible Places” feature in their settings.