Prakat partners with Mitra Jyothi to opens Software Accessibility Lab Date:   Thursday , December 09, 2010 Prakat Solutions, a Bangalore-based Independent Services Company, has partnered with Mitra Jyothi, a charitable trust for assisting people with visual disability, to set up a software accessibility lab at Mitra Jyothi. The aim is to improve the usability and accessibility of software, websites and mobile applications by people with disabilities. “By setting up an accessibility lab at the Mitra Jyothi campus, we are able to train the differently-abled to perform software testing thereby providing them a permanent means of employment. Secondly, we are also building our capability for performing large scale and complex accessibility testing assignments. This partnership with Mitra Jyothi endorses our belief that globally, software must be more inclusive,” said Anuradha Biswas, CEO, Prakat Solutions. Prakat will provide the infrastructure, training and assignments to the Mitra Jyothi community. “The lab will provide accessibility testing training to many of our students and will enable them to find employment and start a new life,” said Madhu Singhal, Managing Trustee of Mitra Jyothi.