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Report on the Progress in Assamese Language Testing: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 23, 2015 — last modified Apr 05, 2015 04:16 PM — filed under: NVDA, Accessibility, E-Speak
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is doing a project on developing a text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages. This blog post captures the key updates of the work done by CIS team for Assamese language.
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Report on the Progress in Bengali Language Testing: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 24, 2015 — last modified Apr 05, 2015 04:23 PM — filed under: NVDA, Accessibility, E-Speak
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is doing a project on developing a text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages. This blog post captures the key updates of the work done by CIS team for Bengali language.
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The Quest for Education – Persons with Disabilities, Severely Challenged: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 30, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
Education is the fundamental building block of development; it leads to an improved quality of life, employment, social acceptance and inclusion, national development and intellectual growth.
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Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Feb 28, 2012 — last modified Sep 25, 2012 05:33 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
G3ict and CIS are pleased to announce the publication of a new, improved edition of the Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective. The report published in cooperation with the Hans Foundation provides an updated synopsis of the many policies that governments have implemented around the world to ensure that the Internet and websites are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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Accessibility of Political Parties Websites in India: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 24, 2014 — filed under: Accessibility
Given the impending elections in India across April and May 2014, a test was conducted to determine the accessibility of websites of the Election Commission of India, the Parliament and some key political parties in India. This report summarises the results of the test.
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Enabling Elections: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 24, 2014 — last modified May 10, 2014 12:12 AM — filed under: Featured, Homepage, Accessibility
For making the 2014 General Elections in India participatory and accessible for voters with disabilities the Centre for Law and Policy Research and the Centre for Internet and Society have come up with a report. The report addresses the barriers that people with disabilities face during elections and recommends solutions for the same.
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Training in eSpeak Marathi: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 07:33 AM — filed under: Accessibility, NVDA
NVDA team conducted a training programme in Marathi language on August 22 and 23, 2015 at Atmadepam Society in Nagpur. Twenty-two participants attended. Harshad Jadhav was the trainer.
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Report on the Training in the Use of eSpeak Hindi with NVDA: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 10:52 AM — filed under: Accessibility, E-Speak
This workshop was organized by the newly established NGO called “Lakshay for the Differently Abled’”. The main objective of the organization is to spread the knowledge of Assistive Technology amongst the Visually Impaired population of the State of Jarkhand.
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Report on use of eSpeak Bengali with NVDA: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 09, 2015 — filed under: NVDA, Accessibility, E-Speak
NVDA team conducted a training programme at Turnstone Matruchaya, Siligudi, West Bengal from September 7 to 9, 2015. Fourteen delegates attended. Nirmal Verma was the language trainer.
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Comments on Guidelines for Indian Government Websites: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 26, 2017 — filed under: Accessibility
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India has published the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW). Nirmita Narasimhan on behalf of the Centre for Internet & Society gave comments on GIGW.
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