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NVDA & eSpeak Team Members: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 24, 2014 — last modified Jan 22, 2015 01:13 AM — filed under: Accessibility, NVDA
Listed below are profiles of the team members working on the NVDA and eSpeak project.
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Training of Malayalam eSpeak with NVDA: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Jan 26, 2015 — last modified Jul 20, 2015 03:19 PM — filed under: NVDA, Training, Accessibility, E-Speak
NVDA team conducted a two days training on January 24 and 25, 2015 in Tiruvananthapuram. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Veeramanikandan, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Kerala University and the eSpeak new version was launched by Suresh S, PSC member, who is an advocate for the blind in getting jobs in Kerala government.
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January 2015 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 16, 2015 — last modified Feb 26, 2015 05:02 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, NVDA, Openness, Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of January can be accessed below.
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Joint Report on Training of the Use of eSpeak in Hindi with NVDA: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Feb 16, 2015 — last modified Mar 19, 2015 01:24 AM — filed under: Accessibility, NVDA
The training programmes were conducted at the National Association for the Blind, New Delhi on February 5 and 6, 2015 and Blind Relief Association, Delhi on February 13 and 14, 2015. Fifteen participants attended the first training programme at National Association for the Blind. Seventeen participants attended the second training programme held at Blind Relief Association.
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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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Disabled kid? sorry, no admission!: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
Mita Sarkar, a mother of a six-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy (CP) had to approach around ten private schools for her daughter's admission. She heard the same response from every school she approached: “Education is for all and we accept all children, but we are not equipped to school your child”.
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Popular apps are inaccessible to millions of disabled: Study: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
According to a study conducted by Centre for Internet and Society last month, many of the most-commonly used mobile apps for food delivery, online payments, grocery shopping and transportation were not accessible to the visually challenged.
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No country for the disabled: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 01, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
A 26-year-old electrical engineer is forced to hide his disability, for fear of losing his job. His current employer is unaware that he uses an artificial limb.
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A world apart: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 01, 2016 — filed under: Accessibility
On the eve of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we look at their legal rights relating to financial matters.
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