Many people imagine blindness as complete darkness. But that’s not entirely true. The term “blindness” covers a broad spectrum of visual disability, from when your sight is impaired enough to interfere with daily activities like reading, cooking or driving, up to total blindness.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
The New Terminal and how to change the background. Hey Guys Its been a minute since i put out something but here goes nothing. If you are a Techie by now you know that Microsoft has released a New Terminal https://youtu.be/8gw0rXPMMPE https://github.com/microsoft/terminal The Terminal is a new tool where you can access the traditional comand …
80% of individuals on the autism spectrum are unemployed or underemployed. Being inclusive is not something we simply do, but rather it stands for who we are.
A couple of things have been streaming through my mind through this insomnia. And I felt the need to share. There has been a lot of conversation in the recent past around health and well-being. Everyone from Charlamagne on the breakfast club who wrote a book around mental health which I do recommend you read. …
Inclusion through intelligent Technology Hey guys, It's been a while since I last shared interesting insights, Well we have something more enticing that I am passionate about. If this is your first visit, please read through my category on Accessibility. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being embedded into our digital world and it has open …
Microsoft Announced general availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud regions in Cape Town
With the Advent of Cloud and the growing demand for storage media tech companies have had to find innovative and scalable ways of storing data By 2020, it’s expected that zettabytes of data will be stored in the cloud. Operating at such scales requires a fundamental re-thinking of how we build large-scale storage systems, as well as the …
Homomorphic Encryption refers to a new type of encryption technology that allows computation to be directly on encrypted data, without requiring any decryption in the process. The first homomorphic encryption scheme was invented in 2009 and several improved schemes were created over the following years. There were a few notable and publicly available implementations, but their use …
African innovations are on a rise, there are more investments in its tech industries with the venture capital funding to start-ups increasing to $560million in 2017 from $277million in 2015. CNBC Africa had a conversation with Somet Kipchilat, Partner Development Manager at Microsoft 4Afrika Initiatives for more on this.
