A cyber cafe specially for visually challenged and blind people is opened in Chennai by Nethrodaya, a non-government organization (NGO). This cyber cafe is first of its kind in India and visually challenged citizens can use it for free.
Blind people browse the web using assisting software. But they are available only in developed countries. The […]
Category Archives: Web
Cyber Cafe for the blind in Chennai - First of its kind in India
Written On: Sep 14 2007
Interesting security bug in Orkut
Written On: Jun 30 2007
When I was going through full referrer logs of one of my websites, I found an interesting bug in Orkut. This reminds me why web application security is really complex and how even experts can just make simple security mistakes. If you are a web developer you can really learn few important things from this […]
Screen Readers and Web Accessibility: Must Watch Video by Yahoo Engineer
Written On: Jun 19 2007
Have you ever wondered how people with visual disabilities use web. Here is a great video by a Yahoo engineer Victor Tsaran where he explains how blind and visually challenged people use screen readers to browse the web. This is a must watch video for every web developer.
Link to the video: An Introduction to Screen […]
Google Gears: Enabling Offline Web Applications
Written On: Jun 4 2007
I am late at writing this post!
Voila! Google again switches gears ahead of its competitors( did I hear you saying MicroSoft ). Google has released a new browser plug-in “Google Gears” on May 30, 2007, which will enable offline access to web applications.
This will address the main problem faced by web applications which can not […]
Unobtrusive Javascript for detecting whether images are enabled or not
Written On: Apr 15 2007
I was wondering if there is a way to detect whether the user has enabled images in his/her browser. After giving it some thought I have come up with a script to do this. Before going into the code I will outline the technique below.
Include a script just before the closing of the body element.
Create […]