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Copyright Challenges for Print Impaired Persons in India: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Aug 04, 2009 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:51 AM — filed under: Accessibility
Print impaired persons in India face several hurdles in accessing reading materials- the biggest one being the Indian Copyright Act 1957
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Department of Information Technology Meeting on a National Policy on E-Accessibility: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Feb 24, 2009 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:32 PM — filed under: Meeting, Accessibility
On 30 January 2009, the Department of Information Technology hosted a meeting in New Delhi bringing together important stakeholders to discuss the issue of electronic accessibility for the disabled and persons with special needs in India.
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Developing Screen Reader and Text-to-Speech Synthesizer: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Apr 01, 2014 — last modified Oct 12, 2016 04:04 PM
The Hans Foundation is funding us to do a project on developing a text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages over a period of two-and-a-half years. The following are the quarterly programmatic reports indicating the progress made in the project.
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e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 23, 2010 — last modified Jul 30, 2013 08:29 AM — filed under: Accessibility, Publications
The Centre for Internet and Society is proud to announce the launch of its first publication, the “e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities" in collaboration with the G3ict (Global Initiative for Inclusive Information Communication Technologies) and ITU (International Telecommunications Union), and sponsored by the Hans Foundation. The handbook is compiled and edited by Nirmita Narasimhan. Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union has written the preface, Dr. Sami Al-Basheer, Director, ITU-D has written the introduction and Axel Leblois, Executive Director, G3ict has written the foreword.
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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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eSpeak Training in Hindi Language: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 08:43 AM — filed under: NVDA, Accessibility, E-Speak
National Association for the Blind, Kullu hosted a 2 day training in the use of eSpeak in Hindi language with NVDA for its special educators, in-service blind, and blind students. The programme was attended by 20 participants who came from all parts of Himachal Pradesh.
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First Meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information Technology: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 06, 2009 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM
This is a report on the first meeting of the Core Group on Communication and Information Technology, which was held in New Delhi on 5 March 2009.
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First Meeting on a National Policy for Web Accessibility: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 07, 2008 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:38 AM — filed under: Conference, Meeting, Accessibility
The first meeting to discuss having a national policy for web accessibility to ensure universal and inclusive participation was held at the Centre for Internet and Society's office on 7 November 2008. It was aimed at formulating an action plan to work with the government and other private and public bodies to ensure conformity to accessibility standards for web sites.
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Government of Madhya Pradesh initiates ICT Accessibility in Public Communication: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jan 31, 2013 — last modified Jan 31, 2013 10:17 AM — filed under: Accessibility
The Centre for Internet and Society, joined hands with Daisy Forum of India member Arushi in Bhopal to submit a request for a notification mandating that all communication by the Government of Madhya Pradesh should be accessible to persons with disabilities.
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GST - A Barrier to Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jun 24, 2017 — last modified Jun 25, 2017 02:15 PM — filed under: Accessibility
The Centre of Internet & Society made a submission on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which will be coming into play from July 2017 onwards. In this blog post Nirmita Narasimhan assesses the impact of GST on persons with disabilities.
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