Anand Chowdhary

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State of the Dock 2018

July 28, 2018

Two months after writing State of the Podcasts, where I talked about my go-to podcasts in 2018, this post is about the apps that find their home on my laptop’s dock. These apps are those I use most often and make me much more productive. I switched from a Firefox/Opera combination to Chrome as my primary web browser when it was released in late 2008 because it was fast and secure. Today, I use Chrome because it’s still standards-compliant and I’m very deep into the Google ecosystem.

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Introducing Universal Screen Reader on Agastya

July 15, 2018

Read aloud was one of Agastya’s signature features when it first launched, and our beta partners like Nayee Disha β€” a collaboration between the UNDP and large corporates to skill and employ women in rural India β€” extensively made use of it. It was the easiest way to have a blind- and illiterate-friendly mode which automatically reads aloud the content of a webpage.

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Introducing the new Agastya

June 9, 2018

Since we launched Agastya in late 2016, we’ve come a long way. Today, we’re announcing the biggest update to our end-to-end web accessibility platform. This update is currently available only to our Pro 1M customers, and will be available to everyone this summer. Privacy-first With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation last month, people are familiar with getting tens of emails with updated pri