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The Right to Read Campaign - Chennai
by Radha Rao published Oct 22, 2009 last modified Aug 31, 2011 10:45 AM — filed under: ,
A nationwide Right to Read campaign began with road shows in the four metro cities of India and was then carried on in other cities. The events comprised of presentations, debates and demonstrations, book reading sessions and setting up of stalls where various accessibility tools were demonstrated. The first road show was held in Loyola College, Chennai on 26th September, 2009.
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 22, 2010 last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: ,
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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Blog Entry The Road to Financial Inclusion
by Amba Salelkar published May 12, 2014 last modified Jun 03, 2014 06:46 AM — filed under:
It is increasingly frustrating to hear about wonderful steps being taken for financial inclusion within the private sector which completely ignores the question of inclusion of persons with disabilities.
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Blog Entry The Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2010: Does it exceed its Mandate in Including Provisions Relating to Other Disability Legislations?
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 24, 2011 last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AM — filed under:
The Centre for Internet and Society, Inclusive Planet and the Centre for Law and Policy Research in this legal note analyse how far the January draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act touches upon the provisions of the other disability legislations, namely the Mental Health Act and The National Trusts Act and thereby exceeds the mandate given by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to amend only the Persons with Disabilities Act.
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File The World Blind Union document
by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 30, 2012 07:25 AM — filed under: ,
WBU Version of the Working Document
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They fight for the visually challenged
by Radha Rao published Apr 19, 2010 last modified Apr 02, 2011 12:48 PM — filed under:
Times News Network - A report on the press conference held at the Press Club, Bangalore on 15th April, 2010.
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Towards a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’
by Prasad Krishna published May 31, 2012 last modified May 31, 2012 07:14 AM — filed under: , ,
This event was organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation, National Internet Exchange of India and Association for Progressive Communications at Mirza Ghalib Hall, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on May 3, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated as a speaker in the session on Access to Internet: Right to Information.
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Blog Entry Training in eSpeak Hindi
by Nirmita Narasimhan published Aug 28, 2015 last modified Sep 03, 2015 02:41 PM — filed under: ,
NVDA team conducted a workshop at Jeevan Jyoti School for the Blind, Varanasi from August 26 to 28, 2015. Eighty five students and 13 teachers took part in the training programme.
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Blog Entry Training in eSpeak Marathi
by Nirmita Narasimhan published Sep 30, 2015 last modified Oct 04, 2015 07:33 AM — filed under: ,
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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Training in Use of eSpeak with Malayalam
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 23, 2014 last modified Nov 30, 2014 11:50 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) in partnership with DAISY Forum of India (DFI) and Chakshumathi Assistive Technology Centre, Trivandrum cordially invites all computer teachers for persons with visual impairment for a two day training in the use of eSpeak Malayalam with NVDA for reading and writing in Malayalam.
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