Rightly said, we must write letters and do efforts. What I remember is, one of the organization in India is talking to publishers and asking for E-copies wherever possible. When I spoke to few course organizers and asked them to provide me soft copy, they said that there is some copyright issue involved in doing that so they couldn't provide me soft copies. I don't know about Indian Copyright Act and the problem involved in it, so won't comment on it.
In US, section 508 that is what I know talks about accessibility. But in India first we have to change laws and even before that we need to make people or publishers aware that how we use computers, what is accessibility and how can they provide us accessible material. I remember previously few listers said that work is going on to improve our copyright act but don't know exactly everything about it. But yes, if that treety which was failed recently of WIPO which was allowing to make accessible material, if that gets passed in November-December when again the confrance is, then it will be easier for us to improve our copyright act that's what I think. Just now red Vanshi sir's reply, so to answer that, firstly the program needs to have accessible interface then only we can make scripts for that. Means, the program creators must have followed accessibility guidelines, then we can create scripts for that. Because scripts make it easier to use the program but it does not introduce accessibility. Don't know weather Java applications would be a good example of it, but if there is accessibility in Java application and then if we use access bridge, then those accessibility features can be used. Don't know weather its a good example or not but just trying to make understand. ----- Original Message ----- From: "aisha sahani" <mailtoaishasah...@gmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [AI] interactive Cd's true, i've bought some CDs for solving income tex questions, but could not identify anything with the help of jaws. at the outset, i thought that this may be the incompetency of my own, but i've discovered the problems with other visually impaired folks as well, which is really unfortunate. if i'm correct, US is pretty strict in the accessibility matters, and their fedral law regarding accessibility of matterials is rigid enough, which compells obligations on the manyfacturers to produce accessible prodicts. we must learn the same in india, because it's high time to do that, as this may be called our rising period. from my perspective, influencial people of community should take the responsibility towards making things accessible, at least the studdy matterials. for this, indivisual letters can be written to the major manifacturers, and government should be pressurised via different mediums meanwhile. intelectuals, let's make a difference! aisha sahani. On 8/17/09, govind reddy <sgred...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello sir: > What Amar has said in his mail is very true. > Many companies or the manifacturers of such Cd's, hardly consider the > issue of accessibility. > I also bought many CD's to improve my French and English, but found > them to be very useless as they cannot be accessed with our screen > readers. > Let us hope for some positive developments in this from manifacturers > in the coming future. > > Regards, > Govind. > Skype: govindhowsweet > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
