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Shivaji Mitra

Project Management, Website Accessibility at Anblik

@anblik Kolkata, India joined Jan 2011

ananyoo.com
    Teams Accessibility

    Bio

    Web Accessibility Consultant based in Kolkata, India. Since 2003 I have audited and remediated websites and mobile apps to WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508 and ADA. DHS Trusted Tester on Accessibility. My team includes IAAP-certified colleagues (CPACC, WAS). Founder of M/S. Anblik and Ananyoo — building accessible WordPress themes and plugins, tested with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack before every release.

    Interests

    Web Accessibility. I would like to deliver more WCAG compliant plugins to WordPress., WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 conformance, Screen-reader testing, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack, Accessible-by-default WordPress themes and plugins

    WordPress Origin Story

    It all started when I was auditing government websites in India in the early 2000s. The same accessibility gaps came up on project after project. WordPress was already the common choice for the sites I was reviewing, but very few themes shipped as accessible-ready. I decided to build one myself, so consultants and site owners could start from a conformant foundation instead of retrofitting every time. That is how Ariade began.

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    Current Job

    Project Management, Website Accessibility
    Feb 2003 – Present
    Anblik
    As founder of Anblik, I lead web and mobile accessibility projects end to end — from audit through remediation to validated conformance. I help teams across education, government, e-commerce, healthcare and non-profits meet WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508, auditing with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack,the Color Contrast Analyzer, Deque AXE, Google Lighthouse and WAVE, then guiding fixes through to certification. Anblik offers both consulting and site auditing as well as full in-house remediation — including accessibility validation and VPAT/conformance documentation — for clients with or without an existing development vendor.

    Job History

    Accessibility Consultant
    Dec 2023 – Present
    MIR Digital Solutions
    Senior Accessibility Consultant delivering accessibility across client platforms. Key responsibilities:

    - Audit wireframes, visual designs and live pages against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508, and scope remediation effort and timelines.
    - Document findings with recommended solutions, conformance statements and VPATs.
    - Perform QA and post-fix validation, and lead expert calls to walk clients through reported issues.
    - Provide technical guidance to developers and verify remediation across platforms including React, Node, Angular, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Laravel, WordPress and BigCommerce.

    Key Accomplishments

    Wikipedia contributor on web accessibility and digital-accessibility policy — with edits to the Web accessibility article and to India-focused topics including the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (Guidelines for Indian Government Websites), Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC), and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    36contributions
    high32
    medium4
    score100
    Last 90 days
    105contributions
    high99
    medium6
    score303
    Last 12 months
    105contributions
    high99
    medium6
    score303

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 04 Fri · 09:43
    Plugins high
    Committed [3680981] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 1.6.3: new "Category display" option for listing cards (All / First only / Last only) with a site-wide default under Portfolio > Settings and per-block / shortcode (category_display) override. The single-category modes print one category link per card with nothing hidden in CSS, so screen readers and checkers such as WAVE see clean markup. New anap_card_category_term filter. Readme, About table and .pot updated; Stable tag 1.6.3. Tagged 1.6.3.
    Sep 02 Wed · 04:53
    Plugins high
    Committed [3677154] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 1.10.0 — brandable colour tokens, optional example text, and a fix for target size and focus ring width never reaching the page.
    August 2026
    Aug 28 Fri · 10:07
    Plugins high
    Committed [3670133] to Plugins SVN:
    Version 1.9.8 — resend a notification from the entry screen or the Entries list; the entry screen now shows the same sender & device details as the email
    Aug 28 Fri · 09:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3670086] to Plugins SVN:
    Corrected a double-escaped ampersand in the new Settings > Email legend.
    Aug 23 Sun · 12:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3661830] to Plugins SVN:
    changes. Tag 2.9.5.
    Aug 23 Sun · 12:30
    Plugins high
    Committed [3661825] to Plugins SVN:
    release; no functional code changes. Tag 1.9.6.
    Aug 23 Sun · 12:28
    Plugins high
    Committed [3661821] to Plugins SVN:
    changes. Tag 1.6.2.
    Aug 22 Sat · 18:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3661037] to Plugins SVN:
    visible as a scroll affordance. Bump to 1.8.9.
    Aug 22 Sat · 13:35
    Plugins high
    Committed [3660648] to Plugins SVN:
    svn ci -m "Release 1.8.7 — Event schema completed for Google event rich results: JSON-LD now carries organizer (the site as an Organization) and eventStatus EventScheduled alongside the existing name, dates, attendance mode, location, description and image; new ananevt_event_schema filter lets themes adjust the schema array before output. Distinguished Guests default kicker is now brand-neutral — site-specific wording belongs in the block's kicker field or the shortcode's kicker attribute. Changelog includes 1.8.6 and 1.8.7; Stable tag 1.8.7."
    Aug 20 Thu · 17:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3657447] to Plugins SVN:
    Sync stylesheet header, AD_CHILD_VERSION and stable tag to 1.9.204.