OK ants are hardworking so lets get to work. We have to pull the wagon and
we have to push it in the direction we want. Most of us have read the story
of the ant and the grasshopper so lets get busy while the sun is shining.
The copyright issue took us 10 years and now part 2 of the war has started.
In the interim we can tackle this little thing.
1. Vikas please find the address of this lab-preferably the registered
office address and the name of the big shot-CEO/Chairman/MD
2. Please someone type the issue-I am not good with technical words. Explain
what is happening and what is not.
3. Then the legal blah blah I will add.
4. Soldier ants lets go for it....
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate & Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kotian, H P" <hpkot...@rbi.org.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] PDF Inaccessibility
Dear Vikas
Strictly speaking, this issue is out of scope from the Copyright bill. In
keeping with the spirit of your assertion, we certainly must demand
accessible PDF statement. This is a perpetual battle we will have to deal
with.
There cannot be a software solution because the content developer in his
wisdom set the security so.
Accessibility is an unearthly word in the world of the able bodied. The
effort involved is so huge it feels like ants trying to pull a railway
wagon.
Harish Kotian
-----Original Message-----
From: Vikas Kapoor [mailto:dl.vi...@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 June 2012 12:59
To: Access India
Subject: [AI] PDF Inaccessibility
Folks,
It is deeply regretted that on the one hand the copyright bills has given
us an opportunity to access an abundance of print material which hither to
cannot be accessed by the print disabled people, while on the other hand
we're unable to access our own personal documents, be they the medical
reports, bank statements or any official bills because most of the
corporate sectors these days are producing the PDF documents in such a way
which cannot be read out by any screen reader. For quite some time, the
Lal Pathology Laboratory, which is supposed to be the best accredited lab
all over India has been producing the personal medical reports which are
not accessible through any screen reader. As soon as you open them, you
screen reader will give you a message "the Author set this documents in a
way which prevents access," and the JAWS will say protection failure.,
needless to mention that the contents are very much visible on the screen
for a sighted people and not accessible by the screen readers. If anybody
has any solution to this, can share, except indeed suggesting to convert
the same with the help of any OCR programme, which is of course is the
last option. I think we, as an organization, or any registered
organisation can approach to them and launch the protest on behalf of the
entire VI community because this is also a violation to our right to print
accessibility.
Vikas Kapoor,
MSN Id: dl_vi...@hotmail.com, Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas,
Mobile: (+91) 9891098137.
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