Re: [AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-15 Thread Vaibhav Saraf
Hi Amar, WCAG is technology agnostic. It states that before anything else on the W3C doc. Thanks, Vaibhav On Thu, 15 Sept 2022 at 03:17, 'Mohammed Asif Iqbal (IN)' via AccessIndia < accessindia@accessindia.org.in> wrote: > Amar, > Just to add to Harish Sir, > the new digital accessibility

Re: [AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-15 Thread Amar Jain
Few thoughts on everyone's response: 1. GIGW nowhere mentions that NVDA should be used for testing. It is in the recommended tools and also from the DEPWD this is the recommendation as part of accessible India campaign. 2. BIS standards are not yet notified so will have to wait to see how

Re: [AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-15 Thread 'Mohammed Asif Iqbal (IN)' via AccessIndia
Amar, Just to add to Harish Sir, the new digital accessibility standard from Bureau of Indian Standard has published and same is going to be notify by MSJE. This is completely based on WCAG2.1 and EN... standard. This also clearly specifies that as technology is evolving standard needs to be

Re: [AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-14 Thread Harish Kotian
Hi Amar Regarding this: is more legal in nature, which is to say that current Indian standards only restrict testing with NVDA which we can work around. What is the basis of the above statement that current Indian standards only restrict testing with NVDA From where did this

Re: [AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-14 Thread Amena Kanchwala
Hi Amar, If I am not wrong, our tax submission portal is an government website. According to India | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C , all the Indian government websites must be WCAG 2.0 Level A compliant. And, Web Content Accessibility

[AI] Comprehensive WCAG conformance leads to accessibility for all irrespective of the technology used-any statement to prove this legally?

2022-09-14 Thread Amar Jain
Dear all, We have a case going on for inaccessibility of our tax submission portal. The vendor is Infosys, and the problem is that only those issues that we are highlighting are getting resolved and comprehensive audit is not being done due to commercial reasons. Further, there seems to be