- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:04:32 -0400
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Sailesh Panchang Pronounced: Shailaysh Punchaang Am Senior Accessibility Engineer at Deque Systems, a Virginia (U.S.) based company - makers of RAMP: a JAWS accessible Web accessibility evaluation and repair tool written in Java. I do a lot of functional testing, Website evaluations to support marketing, VB-COM component development and JAWS scripting. I am a JAWS user (since 1996) and feel that I am making a difference when I demonstrate surfing the Web with a screen reader. It it is an eye-opener to many audiences including developers who are seeing a piece of assistive technology for the first time. Am EOWG member since Dec 2002 and have recently started participating on WCAG-WG. Have worked for large auto/ engineering companies and public accounting/management consulting firms in India (1984-1999) doing: 1. Information requirements analysis and documentation - mainly business / accounting applications 2. Auditing computer based applications- highlighting areas for improving controls and information flows 3. Meeting gaps in information needs of end users by developing - reports by using tools like Oracle Apps' Financial Statements Generator - satelite systems that interfaced with main application systems So meeting end user's information needs has been the focus of my work over a greater part of the 80s and 90s. I am a chartered accountant (equivalent of a certified public accountant in India). I moved to the U.S. from India in 2000 and got an M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh with a research focus on computer access and Web accessibility while gaining an insight into assistive technology for various kinds of disabilities and rehabilitation policies / legislation . Sailesh Panchang Senior Accessibility Engineer Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, 4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com Fax: 703-225-0387 * Look up <http://www.deque.com> *
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