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Access to Knowledge: Barriers and Solutions for Persons with Disabilities in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 09, 2010 — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — filed under: Accessibility
Consumers International, Kuala Lumpur and Consumers Association of India in association with Madras Library Association organised a seminar on Access to Knowledge on 31st July, 2010 at the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Auditorium in Guindy, Chennai. The Principal Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu Department of Information Technology was the chief guest. Former Central Vigilance Commissioner N. Vittal gave the keynote address. Prof Subbiah Arunachalam, Nirmita Narasimhan and Pranesh Prakash participated in the seminar. Nirmita and Pranesh made presentations on access to knowledge.
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Access to Rare Books Made Easy: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 27, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Rare Odia books that are out of print and not easily accessible on the internet, will now be available at the click of the mouse. In a bid to make them available online, the Odia Wikipedia community last week launched WikiSource, an Odia e-library and a sister project of Odia Wikipedia that has been trying to popularise use of Odia language on the Internet since 2002.
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Accessibility at CIS – Looking back at 2010: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 23, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:53 AM — filed under: Accessibility
From its inception, CIS has been working towards reform of copyright law both at the national and international levels and towards formulation of an electronic accessibility policy for India. The year 2010 has been quite eventful for developments in the area of accessibility for persons with disabilities at the national and international levels. In this blog post, Nirmita Narasimhan looks at some of the work done by CIS and other organisations to promote digital accessibility and inclusion for persons with disabilities during the calendar year 2010.
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Accessibility Audit for Websites: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 13, 2012
CIS did an accessibility check for 7800 government websites. This is the report.
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Accessibility in Telecommunications: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 24, 2011 — last modified Nov 08, 2011 08:08 AM — filed under: Accessibility
CIS seeks to gather information about the accessibility of telecommunications products and services for persons with disabilities and elderly persons in India.
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Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 24, 2011 — last modified Jan 02, 2012 05:12 AM — filed under: Telecom, Accessibility
Responding to the call for comments on NTP 2011, 27 organisations sent a joint letter requesting that accessibility for persons with disabilities be included specifically within the goals and objectives of the policy. The submission is available here. It deals exclusively with the issue of accessibility in telecommunications for persons with disabilities, which has been left out of NTP 2011. We outline below in some detail the rationale for including accessibility in the NTP.
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Accessibility of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Electronic Content for Persons with Disabilities: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2013
The Government of Madhya Pradesh is pleased to notify this circular directing all ministries and government agencies to implement ICT accessibility in all public communication and services.
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Accessibility of Political Parties Websites in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 24, 2014
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Accessibility of Political Parties Websites in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 24, 2014
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Accessibility Partners: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 03, 2013 07:42 AM
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