Blogs
Making Public Libraries Accessible to People with Disabilities
- January 24, 2013
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 20 disability rights groups that wrote to the Ministry of Culture on January 23, 2013 seeking remedial action on the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in accessing public libraries in India.
Read more →Linking Commercial Availability and Exceptions in the Treaty for Visually Impaired/Persons with Disabilities
- January 23, 2013
After the landmark WIPO General Assembly meeting in December 2012 that decided to convene a diplomatic conference in June 2013 on the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities, the Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights starting on February 18, 2013 is critical, says Rahul Cherian.
Read more →Accessible Broadcasting in India
- December 11, 2012
The abridged version of International Telecommunication Union's "Making Television Accessible" Report which we published last year has been broadened in scope and is now called "Accessible Broadcasting in India" report.
Read more →National Resource Kit: The Andhra Chapter (Revised)
- January 05, 2013
The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Read more →National Resource Kit : The Kerala Chapter (Call for Comments)
- January 05, 2013
The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Kerala.
Read more →Overview of Schemes and Notifications issued in Karnataka for the benefit of Persons with Disabilities
- January 05, 2013
The State of Karnataka has issued numerous notifications and schemes for the benefits of persons with disabilities. This is a brief overview of all these schemes, which are described thematically under the headings of education, employment, rehabilitation, social security and others.
Read more →National Resource Kit: The Tamil Nadu Chapter (Call for Comments)
- January 06, 2013
The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Read more →Comments and Feedback on the Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan with respect to Persons with Disabilities
- December 27, 2012
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the ten organizations representing people with disabilities that sent comments and feedback on the draft twelfth five year plan.
Read more →WIPO to Convene a Diplomatic Conference in Morocco to Finalise TVI
- December 24, 2012
In a landmark development, on December 18, 2012, the Extraordinary General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed to convene a diplomatic conference, likely to be in Morocco, in June of next year to finalise the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities.
Read more →Human Machine Interfaces: The History of an Uncertain Future
- November 30, 2012
"Multimodal interfaces maybe re-engineered much more easily now and can transform the ways in which the physically,cognitively and sensorially disabled can access information and interact with the digital world", says Sharath Chandra Ram.
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