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Images: Courtesy subjects Navin Thadani won t ever forget the horrified looks on his engineers faces. It was 2016, and Thadani was a vice president of product development at Oracle. He and his team from Rovello, a recently acquired startup, had built a particularly neat piece of software or so he thought. Someone from the tech giant s accessibility department said the new product was completely inaccessible for anyone with a vision disability. Sure, no problem, Thadani replied, somewhat naively. Forward me the requirements and I ll take a look at it. The requirements, it turned out, presented a serious challenge, so Thadani called in his friend and co-worker Gal Moav, a senior director of product management. Then, they brought in the whole team, none of whom had ever written code to the stringent accessibility standards of a large corporation. It s a very hard problem to solve, Thadani says. Out of all the projects that we had to do around security, integra ....
Results for Microsoft invests in Evinced to make the internet accessible to all Israeli startup Evinced provides accessibility software at the development stage. In spite of the higher cause, accessibility has become a multi-million dollar commercial requirement. Yaneev Avital / 7 Feb 2021 • 2 min read Gal Moav and Navin Thadani met first while working at Ravello, an Israeli startup that was acquired by Oracle. Now, the two unveil Evinced, the duo’s new startup, which aims to help organizations implement accessibility elements during development, on both web and mobile, creating naturally accessible code. In addition to the accessibility software launch, Evinced also announced a $17 million Series A funding round from Microsoft. ....