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Mobile Accessibility Practices: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Apr 12, 2017 — filed under: Accessibility
Over the past few months the Centre for Internet & Society along with some like minded organizations had been working on framing a feasible accessibility guidelines for mobile apps which they could recommend to the Government of India, since there is no single standard in existence at the moment.
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Mobile Apps Are Excluding Millions Of Indians Who Want To Use Them: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Sep 24, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
If someone were to ask you how many apps you use in a day, you might need to stop and count. You use apps to book cabs, to order groceries, make payments online, buy diapers, connect with friends... the list goes on. In fact apps, are becoming so intrinsic to daily life that without one handy you may have to think twice about how to complete a transaction.
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Mobile technologies and enlightened service packages help persons with disabilities connect to new opportunities: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jan 10, 2012 — last modified Sep 13, 2012 01:38 PM — filed under: Accessibility
Innovative approaches from mobile hardware and applications developers as well as operators are helping connect the estimated 15% of the global population that lives with some form of disability to the power of information and communication technology.
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National Compendium of Laws, Policies, Programmes for Persons with Disabilities: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jan 03, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:16 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
This compendium was compiled by the Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. Prasanna Kumar Pincha, Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, has written the Foreword.
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Proposed WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for the Visually Impaired and Reading Disabled: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 02, 2008 — last modified Aug 26, 2011 05:44 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society is organising a signature campaign in India to lobby Indian government support for the proposed WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for the Visually Impaired and Reading Disabled. Signatories so far include Vidyavriksha, National Association for the Blind (Delhi), Saksham, National Federation for the Blind, Samarthanam (Bangalore), Mitrajyoti (Bangalore), Accessibility, Score Foundation, Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore), Acrodelon Technologies, Barrier Break Technologies and Enable India. This is a call for all Indian organisations and individuals to become part of this global movement to secure the rights to full and complete access and participation of the visually and reading disabled community of the world.
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Report of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jun 17, 2017 — last modified Jun 19, 2017 03:07 PM — filed under: Accountability
Aditya Tejas attended the Global Accessibility Awareness Day event organized at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. The event had multiple panels and presentations, including a talk on coding for accessibility, a panel on why accessibility is necessary and how India is lagging behind in implementing it, and a presentation on how accessibility principles are integrated into the product life cycle at Cisco.
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Report on 5 day TOT for Training in Use of Espeak Kannada with NVDA: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 10:34 AM — filed under: Accessibility, E-Speak
A unique programme was organized in partnership with Mitra Jyothi – Bangalore, Enable India – Bangalore and NFB Karnataka. The aim of the programme was to empower the Computer Teacherrs for the blind in the use of Espeak Kannada and apprise them with Modern Teaching Techniques for the Blind.
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Report on 15 days Training in Basic Computing at RNKS: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jun 15, 2015 — last modified Jul 21, 2015 03:16 PM — filed under: Accessibility
The NVDA team organized a 15 days training in basic computing at Rajasthan Natrahin Kalyan Sansthan (RNKS) in Jaipur. The training programme held from June 1 - 15, 2015 was attended by 12 delegates. Mrityunjay Kumar was the trainer. The basic training for computers was targeted for school going children of RNKS.
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Report on 15 days Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Gujarati: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Apr 16, 2015 — last modified May 10, 2015 11:23 AM — filed under: Accessibility
This programme was aimed at high school students who were completely new to computers. The aim of the workshop was to empower the students to at least read and write using eSpeak Gujarati with NVDA within the 15 day duration.
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Report on 15 days Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Hindi: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Mar 29, 2015 — last modified Apr 10, 2015 02:33 AM — filed under: Accessibility
The highlight of the session was that the students on completion of the 15 days training, were able to write passages in Hindi. All the participants were able to do basic computing, such as opening files, saving them in different locations, surfing the Internet, etc.
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