1. Accessibility Overview
Srinivasu Chakravarthula

2. Agenda
● About Deque & Me
● What’s Accessibility
● Who does it help?
● Why Accessibility is important?
● Accessibility Guidelines
● Accessibility Laws
● Deque Products and Services
● Deque University
● Q & A + Thank you
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3. About Deque and Me
● Global leader in the area of
Accessibility
● Digital Accessibility is both our
mission and vision
● 15+ years serving Government,
Corporate and other organizations
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● Accessibility SME
● A decade of experience
● Formerly worked at BarrierBreak,
Yahoo, PayPal and HCL
● Accessibility is not just day job but
close to heart
● Loves networking, swimming, chess
and carom
● Lives with wife and cute little Varshi

4. What’s Accessibility?
Ensuring product has equal access to
everyone including people with disabilities,
elderly and those affected by situation
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5. Who does it help?
● People with disabilities
● Elderly
● Users having temporary disabilities
● Low band width users
● Technologies such as Search
engines
● Mobile users
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6. Why accessibility is important?
● Increase customer base
● Increase trust
● Improves the quality of product in general
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7. Accessibility Guidelines
● Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
● Accessible Rich Internet Applications
● User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
● Authoring Technology Accessibility Guidelines
● Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
● Section 9 of United Nations Convention on Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
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8. Accessibility Laws
● Section 508 (US)
● European Accessibility Act
● Australia Disability Discrimination Act
● New Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill (India) -
To be passed
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9. Deque Products and Services
● FireEyes
● WorldSpace
● Amaze
● aXe
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Cont.…

10. Deque Products and Services
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● Accessibility Assessments
● Accessibility Fixes
● Education
● Strategy for Compliance

11. Deque University
● Offers wide range of Accessibility
courses
● Online
● Instructor-lead training
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12. Q & A - Thank you!
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