Re: [AI] Canada refuses entry to a disabled girl (London Daily Telegraph)
Its quite shocking. I was looking at from other angle too as to what might be the possible threat that makes Canadian Authorities do that! Do they feel the disabling is contagious and will be a health risk for fellow Canadians! or they are scared of disability claims/benefits which they might have to extend to residents with disabilities. But nothing in clear yet! On 08/08/2008, subramani Lakshminarayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Canada 'refuses entry to disabled girl' > > A British family who planned to start a new life in Canada were > refused entry because their daughter has learning difficulties and > have been forced to return > home. > > By Graham Tibbetts > Last Updated: 12:13AM BST 08 Aug 2008 > Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven > Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven Photo: > INS > > Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman had sold their home and bought a > farmhouse in Nova Scotia where the local authorities supported their > arrival. > > But after a six-hour flight the family claim they were told by a > border guard that because Lucy, seven, is disabled she would never be > allowed into the > country. > > Canadian immigration officials have suggested the Chapmans may have > been turned back because they lacked the necessary work permit. > > The family believed they had the necessary paperwork in place, down to > the clearance required for their black labrador, Harvey. > > Mr Chapman, a former Metropolitan police officer, said the problem > began when the border guard looked at their passports at Halifax > airport. > > "The atmosphere changed. She said: 'why have you brought your daughter > to this country?'" he said. > > "I asked why I shouldn't I bring her and was told by the border guard > that because she was disabled she had a lifetime ban. > > "We couldn't believe what they were saying." > > Lucy suffers from a rare genetic defect called Angelman syndrome, a > condition that leaves her with a reduced mental age and without the > ability to speak. > Physically, she appears normal, has an average life expectancy and > requires no additional medical care or drugs. > > Mrs Chapman, 45, also a former police officer in London, said: "I have > never, ever in my whole life seen such blatant discrimination. Lucy is > different > and therefore in their eyes not perfect. > > "I kept saying to them: 'So because my daughter is disabled you are > telling me she can't come in?' and they simply said 'yes'." > > "My dog was allowed to stay. My dog has a higher status than my > daughter in Canada, just because she is disabled." > > After a five-hour stand off the family was allowed to leave the > airport but their passports were seized. Eighteen days later they were > asked to leave the > country. > > Their plan to move to Canada had been hatched in 2005 when Mr Chapman > applied for leave to study at Ontario University. > > Although national law at the time meant Lucy's condition would have > barred them from entering, a Canadian Supreme Court ruling a few > months later led to > the blanket ban on disabled immigrants being lifted. > > Attracted by lower prices, the higher standard of living and Canada's > recent drive to welcome 50,000 skilled workers, the Chapmans thought > it would be the > perfect place for Lucy and her brother Jack, aged 16 years. > > After visiting Canada twice as tourists they sold their four-bedroom > home in Wokingham, Berks., for £600,000 and bought a two-acre plot in > Miller Lake, > Halifax County, for just £140,000 pounds. > > The Chapmans employed a visa consultancy firm to organise their > residency application and the Nova Scotian authorities applied for > temporary residency and > a three-year work permit in their name that would allow them to set up > a children's soft play centre business in their local mall. > > They have employed a Canadian lawyer to fight their case and have > vowed not to give up. > > A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) said he was > unable to comment on the Chapman case specifically. > > "People with disabilities can come to Canada," he said. > > "In Canada we have rules and regulations to protect the Canadian > people and we have to make sure that the proper process is followed. > > "It is not that we do not want them (the Chapmans) herethey just have > to follow the proper process, which includes ensuring the residency > permit is in place > before arriving in Canada." > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > -- Warm regards, Subhash Chandra Vashishth Mobile : +91-11-9811125521 Join Access India conv
Re: [AI] Canada refuses entry to a disabled girl (London DailyTelegraph)
This is nothing but the example where some human beings are endowed with animal brain or sometimes worse than that. - Original Message - From: "subramani Lakshminarayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: [AI] Canada refuses entry to a disabled girl (London DailyTelegraph) Canada 'refuses entry to disabled girl' A British family who planned to start a new life in Canada were refused entry because their daughter has learning difficulties and have been forced to return home. By Graham Tibbetts Last Updated: 12:13AM BST 08 Aug 2008 Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven Photo: INS Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman had sold their home and bought a farmhouse in Nova Scotia where the local authorities supported their arrival. But after a six-hour flight the family claim they were told by a border guard that because Lucy, seven, is disabled she would never be allowed into the country. Canadian immigration officials have suggested the Chapmans may have been turned back because they lacked the necessary work permit. The family believed they had the necessary paperwork in place, down to the clearance required for their black labrador, Harvey. Mr Chapman, a former Metropolitan police officer, said the problem began when the border guard looked at their passports at Halifax airport. "The atmosphere changed. She said: 'why have you brought your daughter to this country?'" he said. "I asked why I shouldn't I bring her and was told by the border guard that because she was disabled she had a lifetime ban. "We couldn't believe what they were saying." Lucy suffers from a rare genetic defect called Angelman syndrome, a condition that leaves her with a reduced mental age and without the ability to speak. Physically, she appears normal, has an average life expectancy and requires no additional medical care or drugs. Mrs Chapman, 45, also a former police officer in London, said: "I have never, ever in my whole life seen such blatant discrimination. Lucy is different and therefore in their eyes not perfect. "I kept saying to them: 'So because my daughter is disabled you are telling me she can't come in?' and they simply said 'yes'." "My dog was allowed to stay. My dog has a higher status than my daughter in Canada, just because she is disabled." After a five-hour stand off the family was allowed to leave the airport but their passports were seized. Eighteen days later they were asked to leave the country. Their plan to move to Canada had been hatched in 2005 when Mr Chapman applied for leave to study at Ontario University. Although national law at the time meant Lucy's condition would have barred them from entering, a Canadian Supreme Court ruling a few months later led to the blanket ban on disabled immigrants being lifted. Attracted by lower prices, the higher standard of living and Canada's recent drive to welcome 50,000 skilled workers, the Chapmans thought it would be the perfect place for Lucy and her brother Jack, aged 16 years. After visiting Canada twice as tourists they sold their four-bedroom home in Wokingham, Berks., for £600,000 and bought a two-acre plot in Miller Lake, Halifax County, for just £140,000 pounds. The Chapmans employed a visa consultancy firm to organise their residency application and the Nova Scotian authorities applied for temporary residency and a three-year work permit in their name that would allow them to set up a children's soft play centre business in their local mall. They have employed a Canadian lawyer to fight their case and have vowed not to give up. A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) said he was unable to comment on the Chapman case specifically. "People with disabilities can come to Canada," he said. "In Canada we have rules and regulations to protect the Canadian people and we have to make sure that the proper process is followed. "It is not that we do not want them (the Chapmans) herethey just have to follow the proper process, which includes ensuring the residency permit is in place before arriving in Canada." Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] SMS problem with a particular number
Hello Access Indians! I am facing a peculiar problem with respect to sending SMS to a particular number. When I send an SMS to a MTNL cell phone from my airtel, it does not reach the recipient. The same problem is with that number also. when she sends an sms it does not reach my airtel phone. Both of us have launched complaint with our respective service providers, but airtel says that everything is ok with them and problem is with MTNL. similarly, MTNL people are telling the same story that there is something wrong with airtel. The most surprising thing is that we both are able to send and receive SMS to and from other MTNL and airtel numbers without any hindrance. any remedies? Regards, If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything. Chetan Sharma Manager Regional Office Oriental Bank of Commerce Anand Bhawan Sansar chandra Road Jaipur Rajasthan India Ph: 91-141-2314662, 2364725 Fax: 91-141-2365315 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] Canada refuses entry to a disabled girl (London Daily Telegraph)
Canada 'refuses entry to disabled girl' A British family who planned to start a new life in Canada were refused entry because their daughter has learning difficulties and have been forced to return home. By Graham Tibbetts Last Updated: 12:13AM BST 08 Aug 2008 Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman and children Jack, 16, and Lucy, seven Photo: INS Paul and Barbara-Anne Chapman had sold their home and bought a farmhouse in Nova Scotia where the local authorities supported their arrival. But after a six-hour flight the family claim they were told by a border guard that because Lucy, seven, is disabled she would never be allowed into the country. Canadian immigration officials have suggested the Chapmans may have been turned back because they lacked the necessary work permit. The family believed they had the necessary paperwork in place, down to the clearance required for their black labrador, Harvey. Mr Chapman, a former Metropolitan police officer, said the problem began when the border guard looked at their passports at Halifax airport. "The atmosphere changed. She said: 'why have you brought your daughter to this country?'" he said. "I asked why I shouldn't I bring her and was told by the border guard that because she was disabled she had a lifetime ban. "We couldn't believe what they were saying." Lucy suffers from a rare genetic defect called Angelman syndrome, a condition that leaves her with a reduced mental age and without the ability to speak. Physically, she appears normal, has an average life expectancy and requires no additional medical care or drugs. Mrs Chapman, 45, also a former police officer in London, said: "I have never, ever in my whole life seen such blatant discrimination. Lucy is different and therefore in their eyes not perfect. "I kept saying to them: 'So because my daughter is disabled you are telling me she can't come in?' and they simply said 'yes'." "My dog was allowed to stay. My dog has a higher status than my daughter in Canada, just because she is disabled." After a five-hour stand off the family was allowed to leave the airport but their passports were seized. Eighteen days later they were asked to leave the country. Their plan to move to Canada had been hatched in 2005 when Mr Chapman applied for leave to study at Ontario University. Although national law at the time meant Lucy's condition would have barred them from entering, a Canadian Supreme Court ruling a few months later led to the blanket ban on disabled immigrants being lifted. Attracted by lower prices, the higher standard of living and Canada's recent drive to welcome 50,000 skilled workers, the Chapmans thought it would be the perfect place for Lucy and her brother Jack, aged 16 years. After visiting Canada twice as tourists they sold their four-bedroom home in Wokingham, Berks., for £600,000 and bought a two-acre plot in Miller Lake, Halifax County, for just £140,000 pounds. The Chapmans employed a visa consultancy firm to organise their residency application and the Nova Scotian authorities applied for temporary residency and a three-year work permit in their name that would allow them to set up a children's soft play centre business in their local mall. They have employed a Canadian lawyer to fight their case and have vowed not to give up. A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) said he was unable to comment on the Chapman case specifically. "People with disabilities can come to Canada," he said. "In Canada we have rules and regulations to protect the Canadian people and we have to make sure that the proper process is followed. "It is not that we do not want them (the Chapmans) herethey just have to follow the proper process, which includes ensuring the residency permit is in place before arriving in Canada." Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] windows eye problem
Hello, I am using windows eye 5.5 from last three year without any problem. resently , i contected gwmicro supoort for a upgrade and there new windows eye 7.0 . they have no plan for hindi vversion now. also the person i purchaced in india is not responding. is there any other distributer for gwmicro and any other friends which are using windows eye what is theresuggestion for me. Thanks in advance, siddharth Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] WAI-ARIA Overview
Introduction WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. Currently certain functionality used in Web sites is not available to some users with disabilities, especially people who rely on screen readers and people who cannot use a mouse. WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges, for example, by defining new ways for functionality to be provided to assistive technology. With WAI-ARIA, developers can make advanced Web applications accessible and usable to people with disabilities. This page describes the problems that WAI-ARIA addresses, and introduces the WAI-ARIA suite of technical documents. Making Ajax and Related Technologies Accessible Figure 1: Tree control Web sites are increasingly using more advanced and complex user interface controls, such as tree controls for Web site navigation like the example in Figure 1. To provide an accessible user experience to people with disabilities, assistive technologies need to be able to interact with these controls. However, the information that the assistive technologies need is not available with most current Web technologies. Another example of an accessibility barrier is drag-and-drop functionality that is not available to users who use a keyboard only and cannot use a mouse. Even relatively simple Web sites can be difficult if they require an extensive amount of keystrokes to navigate with only a keyboard. Many Web applications developed with Ajax (also known as AJAX), DHTML, and other technologies pose additional accessibility challenges. For example, if the content of a Web page changes in response to user actions or time- or event-based updates, that new content may not be available to some people, such as people who are blind or people with cognitive disabilities who use a screen reader. WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges by defining how information about this functionality can be provided to assistive technology. With WAI-ARIA, an advanced Web application can be made accessible and usable to people with disabilities. Technical Solutions More specifically, WAI-ARIA provides a framework for adding attributes to identify features for user interaction, how they relate to each other, and their current state. WAI-ARIA describes new navigation techniques to mark regions and common Web structures as menus, primary content, secondary content, banner information, and other types of Web structures. For example, with WAI-ARIA, developers can identify regions of pages and enable keyboard users to easily move among regions, rather than having to press Tab many times. WAI-ARIA also includes technologies to map controls, Ajax live regions, and events to accessibility application programming interfaces (APIs), including custom controls used for rich Internet applications. WAI-ARIA techniques apply to widgets such as buttons, drop-down lists, calendar functions, tree controls (for example, expandable menus), and others. WAI-ARIA provides Web authors with the following: list of 6 items • Roles to describe the type of widget presented, such as "menu," "treeitem," "slider," and "progressmeter" • Roles to describe the structure of the Web page, such as headings, regions, and tables (grids) • Properties to describe the state widgets are in, such as "checked" for a check box, or "haspopup" for a menu. • Properties to define live regions of a page that are likely to get updates (such as stock quotes), as well as an interruption policy for those updates—for example, critical updates may be presented in an alert dialog box, and incidental updates occur within the page • Properties for drag-and-drop that describe drag sources and drop targets • A way to provide keyboard navigation for the Web objects and events, such as those mentioned above list end For more information, go to: www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria. Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] Fwd: IPC Launches YouTube Channel
Bonn, Germany – Today, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has taken further action to promote Paralympic sports and the Paralympic Movement by launching a Channel on YouTube™, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. From today on, fans of Paralympic Sport can go to www.YouTube.com/ParalympicSportTV to watch clips of Paralympic sports, athletes and events. Viewers of ParalympicSport.TV on YouTube can enjoy the different features YouTube offers: they can subscribe to the Channel, watch, rate and comment the latest video clips and upload their own videos and much more. Not only will the IPC regularly upload a selection of video clips from the IPC's internet TV channel www.ParalympicSport.TV but also encourages Paralympic athletes and all fans of Paralympic Sport to upload their Paralympic content on the YouTube channel. Video clips uploaded by IPC will include athlete portrays, sport features, event reports and trailers of the monthly ParalympicSport.TV magazine paraEmotion. During the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games daily news clips will be published on the YouTube Channel to keep viewers up to date about what happens in Beijing. Said IPC President Sir Philip Craven: "Having a site on YouTube will help to further raise awareness for the Paralympic Movement. I encourage everyone out there to utilize this feature and upload a ny video that could provide another glimpse into the Paralympic world". Watch Paralympic sports from all over the world on www.YouTube.com/ParalympicSportTV. __ Notes to the Editor: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, and serves as the International Federation for nine sports, for which it supervises and co-ordinates the World Championships and other competitions. The IPC is committed to enabling Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and to developing sport opportunities for all persons with a disability from the beginner to elite level. In addition, the IPC aims to promote the Paralympic values, which include courage, determination, inspiration and equality. Founded on 22 September 1989, the IPC is an international non-profit organization formed and run by 161 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) from five regions and four disability specific international sports federations (IOSDs). The IPC Headquarters and its management team are located in Bonn, Germany. For further information, please contact Steffi Klein, IPC Media and Communication Senior Manager, on tel: +49-228-2097-230, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to www.paralympic.org. Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] open office? or microsoft office.
We are using open office.org in our office. Jaws does not read the spreadsheet application properly in open office.org. Jaws does not even read the rows and columns correctly. The presentation programme is not supported by jaws. We can only work in word processor programme. We are using the latest version of open office.org and jaws 9.0. So in my opinion, MS office is best for accessibility. B. Kannan. - Original Message - From: "ruchir falodiya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:52 PM Subject: [AI] open office? or microsoft office. > hello to all at accessindia. > i was thinking to shift from microsoft office to open office. > the downnload is about 300 megs, so i thought, why not take a opinion > before getting it. > i have following questions. > 1. is it worth to shift? > 2. what is better in open office? > 3. how about accessibility > if any of you, is useing open office at present, please do reply. > > for those of you, wondering about " what is open office"? > > it is a freeware, open source project started by sun jawa systems, and > supported by google. > > they are providing free of charge, office applications, which is very > similar to presently widely used microsoft office. > > for more informations, > > review > www.openoffice.org > -- > As long as forever, > I will stay by your side, > I'll be your companion, > Your friend and your guide!!! > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] 4 useful Web sites that you should bookmark!
You can download TMA Dictionary from the site, blindsea.com/mobile cornar/third party software for second generation phones. TMA dictionary is a free programme for second generation mobiles. B. Kannan. - Original Message - From: "prateek karmarkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [AI] 4 useful Web sites that you should bookmark! hello, Please can u send me the web address for download mobile dictionary for my Nokia N70 mobile .I am waiting for your positive and quick response . Regards Prateek karmarkar On 8/6/08, Today's Web sites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > en.softonic.com > > If it is software you seek, here is your one-site-to-rule-them-all. The > resource, with over 81,000 programs, is divided into 5 main categories – > Windows, Mac, Phones, Pocket PC, and Palm OS – and then, has further > sub-categories such as games, multimedia, Internet, business, etc. Also, > it > has a truckload of reviews and tips to make your computing easier. > > www.brainbashers.com > > This site describes itself best: BrainBashers is a collection of brain > teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. It boasts of > thousands of brain teasers; has won over one hundred awards; is updated > with > optical illusions and games; and has five new puzzles added every other > week. Put on your thinking cap and start clicking! > > www.resnooze.com > > Are there some daily chores that you or your better half just can't seem > to > remember? This site seeks to provide a solution. Resnooze is a reminder > facility that sends pre-planned messages to your or a friend's inbox. What > sets the site apart from others is that you can program it to send the > same > reminder on a daily, weekly or monthly basis at a decided time – a very > useful tool! > > www.findingdulcinea.com > > Researching on a topic online might not always give you the result you > need: > Sites are divided by keywords; some are sponsored by companies that you > can't trust; and others have the information displayed in a haphazard > format. Mark Moran, the founder of This site, got tired of the same and > decided to use human power to sort things out. He formed a team of editors > and writers that search the Internet for various topics and bring together > the best and most reliable material about any subject. The portal is very > easy to browse, completely free, and should easily find a place in your > list > of bookmarks. > > > Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger > at > http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] banking discrimination
Hello Kanchan Madam, today I met the Branch Manager in personand explained him about the loan..he asked me to wait for one day..let me do that..if not i will mail all the details.. thank you, with regards, srinivasan Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] Apple is turning its friends into enemies
The Hindu News Update Service default/empty News Update Service Thursday, August 7, 2008 : 0935 Hrs Sci. & Tech. Apple is turning its friends into enemies London, (GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE) By Charles Arthur Apple's disdain for badly designed outside software is hurting it more than it knows. The developers who were ready to be its friends are turning into its enemies Good design is really rare. From this I think we can conclude that it's really difficult. I was thinking about this as I watched the comments pile up earlier this week on the Technology blog post pointing to a rant about the usability - or otherwise - of free software (bit.ly/use2). But as the commenters pointed out, it's not only free software that suffers from this problem, which implies logically that the problem lies not in the cost of the software, but in the process and the people involved. For instance, I've never come across a piece of software from Microsoft that left me breathless in amazement at its combination of simplicity and power. With Microsoft, you get either/or. You get software that does a couple of things and doesn't trouble you, or you get something that can do something near to a billion things, and tells you all about most of them all the time. I still find it a frustrating business visiting the network control panel in Windows XP: it's like the sketch, decades old but still relevant, of the man going into a hi-fi shop and asking for "a gramophone". At which the shop assistants turn like radar dishes and begin mercilessly poking fun at the man, asking absurd questions about what he wants. XP's network control panel treats me the same way. There are all sorts of weird things in there, most of which I'm not interested in. And the ones I am interested in are hidden or wrapped in such obtuse language that I give up. You're thinking that I'm going to say that Apple is a paragon of good design - and on both the hardware and computer software front, it often is. It frequently conforms to the idea that the zenith of design is reached when you can't take anything more away, rather than when you can't add any more. But here's the interesting thing. Apple is very good at design: you can measure its abrupt improvement in hardware design back pretty much to the day when Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1996. The role of Jobs was to champion the winning design; because before that Jonathan Ive's genius was well-hidden in the boring beige boxes Apple churned out. However, Apple's top-down approach to design is a bust when it comes to its approach to the software for the iPhone. Developers for that are up in arms. People are astonishingly angry at the fact that Apple first won't let them talk about how to develop for the iPhone - because everything about programming for it remains under a non-disclosure agreement - and second, hasn't let them get at its most useful application programming interfaces (APIs). Mike Ash, a programmer at the independent Mac developer Rogue Amoeba, has posted a long and annoyed rant about this (at bit.ly/use3) in which he says that after a month using the new iPhone, with its new software: "I feel like I've gone back to the dark ages." Multitasking is a thing of the past, and it's impossible for third-party developers to design well, because Apple's keeping the best parts of the API hidden. Apple can design something that will multitask but others can't. The developers want in too. Apple's constant refrain is that it's all about making sure the phone isn't going to be destroyed by applications doing what they shouldn't. It's starting to wear thin, though. Palm opened its platform to outside developers, which helped it kill Psion. Apple's disdain for badly designed outside software is hurting it more than it knows. The developers who were ready to be its friends are turning into its enemies. And let nobody forget that Steve Ballmer's most memorable leaping-about moment - screaming "Developers! Developers! Developers!" - was greeted with applause. From developers. Look at how well Microsoft has done and compare it with the iPhone, which is teetering on a brink. Good design is rare. But eager developers are even more rare. Let them in, Apple. Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] Hackers target Google Gadgets
The Hindu News Update Service default/empty News Update Service Thursday, August 7, 2008 : 1015 Hrs Sci. & Tech. Hackers target Google Gadgets LAS VEGAS (AP): One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing _ which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers. It's a threat even for the biggest Web companies, including Google Inc., whose ``gadgets'' _ little programs like calendars or daily photo feeds that users can implant onto their personalized Google home pages _ are increasingly juicy targets for hackers, two security researchers said Wednesday. It's not that Google is designing insecure programs. The issue is that users building their own customized applications, and distributing them through Google, might have evil intentions and try to exploit those programs once they're installed on users' pages. Many users are inclined to inherently trust what they download from Google. Robert Hansen, chief executive of security consultant SecTheory, and Tom Stracener, senior security analyst with security testing software maker Cenzic Inc., demonstrated an attack Wednesday at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas in which they used a malicious gadget to break into a person's Web browser and read their searches in real time. Malicious gadgets _ if a user were to download one of them _ could be used in a variety of other attacks, including one where one gadget steals information from another, a valuable attack against gadgets that store personal user information, Hansen and Stracener said. ``How do you know it's a legitimate gadget?'' Hansen asked. ``Because someone uploaded it? There's no moderation, there's no way to guarantee it won't turn bad.'' Google isn't alone. The company is fighting a common problem facing social-networking Web sites and other sites that encourage users to spruce up their pages with little knickknacks that reach out to the outside world to deliver pictures or other content. The applications run code on the page that can be used for good or evil. Google disputes Hansen's characterization of its vetting process for gadgets. The company said in a statement that it scans all gadgets regularly for malicious code, and in the ``very rare'' instance in which one is found, it's immediately blacklisted. Google added that since November 2007 no new ``inline'' gadgets _ which have access to user account information _ have been created. And the authors of existing ``inline'' gadgets can't modify them further. The company defended its program and said gadgets are created by developers from around the world and ``provide a convenient way for users to view information collected from around the Web in one place.'' Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] ogg files
Also Winnamp will play them. - Original Message - From: "mahendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [AI] ogg files > well, you can listen Ogg files with winom player. > > At 06:58 AM 8/7/2008, you wrote: >>Folks: >> >>How do we listen to 'ogg' files; tell me something about ogg; can it >>work with the usual apps like real player etc? >> >>Subramani >> >>Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: >>http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm >>Registration is now open! >> >>To unsubscribe send a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > with warm regards >Mahendra Galani > window's live ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype ID chintu3886 > phone +4314943149 mobile +4369910366055, > address Herbst strasse 101.16.1 Vienna Austria Europe > - > > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] 4 useful Web sites that you should bookmark!
hello, Please can u send me the web address for download mobile dictionary for my Nokia N70 mobile .I am waiting for your positive and quick response . Regards Prateek karmarkar On 8/6/08, Today's Web sites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > en.softonic.com > > If it is software you seek, here is your one-site-to-rule-them-all. The > resource, with over 81,000 programs, is divided into 5 main categories – > Windows, Mac, Phones, Pocket PC, and Palm OS – and then, has further > sub-categories such as games, multimedia, Internet, business, etc. Also, it > has a truckload of reviews and tips to make your computing easier. > > www.brainbashers.com > > This site describes itself best: BrainBashers is a collection of brain > teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. It boasts of > thousands of brain teasers; has won over one hundred awards; is updated with > optical illusions and games; and has five new puzzles added every other > week. Put on your thinking cap and start clicking! > > www.resnooze.com > > Are there some daily chores that you or your better half just can't seem to > remember? This site seeks to provide a solution. Resnooze is a reminder > facility that sends pre-planned messages to your or a friend's inbox. What > sets the site apart from others is that you can program it to send the same > reminder on a daily, weekly or monthly basis at a decided time – a very > useful tool! > > www.findingdulcinea.com > > Researching on a topic online might not always give you the result you need: > Sites are divided by keywords; some are sponsored by companies that you > can't trust; and others have the information displayed in a haphazard > format. Mark Moran, the founder of This site, got tired of the same and > decided to use human power to sort things out. He formed a team of editors > and writers that search the Internet for various topics and bring together > the best and most reliable material about any subject. The portal is very > easy to browse, completely free, and should easily find a place in your list > of bookmarks. > > > Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at > http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] recruitment in bombay high court
Bombay High Court Personal Assistant recruitment Aug07 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY Applications are invited for preparation of Select/Wait Lists for the following posts in the High Court of Judicature at Bombay : Personal Assistants : 40 posts (14 candidates and Wait List of 26 Candidates), Pay scale : Rs.8000-13500/-, Age : not less than 21 years and more than 35 years of age., Qualification : Possess University Degree (ii) 10 years experience inclusive of the service as Lower Grade and/or Higher Grade Stenographer in the High Court or in any other Court or Tribunal or in the Office of the Advocate General or Government Pleader. Preference being given to candidates possessing Degree in Law. (iii) Qualify Government Commercial Certificate Examination or examination conducted by Government Board or I.T.I. for speed of 120 w.p.m. or above in English Shorthand and 50 w.p.m. in English Typing. (iv) possess Computer Certificate about proficiency in operation of word processor M.S. Office, M.S. Word, Wordstar-7 or Linux. How to Apply : Applications for the above posts should be addressed to the "Registrar (Personnel), High Court, Appellate Side, P.W.D. Building, 3rd Floor, Fort, Bombay-400 032" and be sent only by R.P.A.D. / Speed Post, in an envelope duly super scribed with the words "Application for the post of Personal Assistant" so as to reach on or before 22/08/2008. The Postal Order of Rs.50/- drawn in the name of Registrar (Personnel), High Court, Appellate Side, Bombay, be also sent alongwith the application form for the aforesaid posts to meet the expenses of processing the application. For more information and application form, please view http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/site/recruit/pas.pdf regards, prateek agarwal. cell: 09928341197 e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- you can visit my website for lots of stuff related to visually impaired and others.(updated) please go on to www.prateekagarwal.webs.com Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] Technology that helps people with disabilities - Visit Techshare India 2008 Road show on August 29th at Bangalore!
Hi all, Imagine a situation where while you are working the mouse stops functioning and you have no time for the technician to come and set that right. What would you do? You may opt to complete your work using the keyboard. But what if the keyboard stop functioning and mouse alone works? If you are using Windows, you can opt to use an on-screen keyboard. You may be aware, there are around 60 million people with disabilities in India that includes people who can't see, who have mobility problems and others who are faced with hearing loss. How do they access computers? Visit the Experience Zone for FREE! To experience different assistive technologies that benefit people with disabilities, visit Techshare India 2008 Road Show. Some of the products that will be displayed at Experience Zone are: - Ergonomic Keyboard & Ergonomic Mice by Keyovation LLC - Power wheel chair by Ostrich Mobility and Callidai Motor Works - Screen Readers and many more. - Tools for Learning Disabilities Register for the Techshare India 2008 Road Show Conference Techshare India 2008 Road Shows will comprise of 3 tracks with 12 speakers plus a state-of-the-art experience zone. We have developed 3 major tracks to meet the expectations of the target audience: Different Tracks that are planned at Techshare India 2008 Road Shows: - The Road Ahead - Envision the Accessibility Road Map - Making a Difference - Bridging the Digital Divide Key Speakers: Techshare India 2008 Road Show brings you an opportunity to meet eminent speakers those have expertise in the area of accessibility, assistive technology and disability. Some of the Key Speakers are listed below: - Shilpi Kapoor - Basics of Web Accessibility - Omprakash Subbarao - Building Accessibility into Large applications: An experience of Yahoo! Mail - Vikas Sharma - Access beyond the ramps - Dr. Poonam R Gupta - Open Source Based Assistive Technologies - Vivek Gaikwad - Flash & Accessibility - Ganesh Prasad S - DAISY Revolution - My Stories - Stories of different people with disabilities from the Assistive Technology prospective - B Ashok - Restructuring the work environment for people with Mental Retardation and many more! Date: August 29th, 2008 Venue: Mobility India, 1st & 1st 'A' Cross, J.P. Nagar 2nd Phase, Bangalore - 560 078 To register for Techshare India 2008 Road Shows, kindly visit http://www.barrierbreak.com/events-conference/conferenceregistration.php Thanks & Regards, Ch. Srinivasu | Access Consultant BarrierBreak Technologies India: +91 (22) 2686 0485 / 86 Cell: +91 99202 29081 Web: http://www.barrierbreak.com BarrierBreak Technologies a subsidiary of Net Systems Informatics Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[AI] DU library system: in line with online education
Over the last few years Delhi University has been making efforts in building a vast pool of online educational resources under the Delhi University Library System (DULS). In the coming years too, the university is planning to improve its online facilities by the way of introducing library tutorials for students and teachers and making electronic version of library books available to its students. Elaborating on the university's plans, S Majumdar, university librarian and head DULS, said, "DULS had started a pilot project to digitise 3000 out of copyright books in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC). Those books are already available on the CDAC's website now. Recognising this effort government has sanctioned us a huge grant to digitise 1000 more out of copyright books available in the central library. These books will be available on the library's website www.crl.du.ac.in" Not only this, the university will also create a tutorial for beginners that will help students in getting basic information on the internet, various topics and also ways to evaluate the utility of the information available online. "Besides, students will be able to play an Info Game that will help them find out their internet knowledge. It will be a real learning experience for various kind of information sources, particularly the online information sources. It will help students know how to do research faster and better. The game has been developed on the lines of an info game available on Austin Community College's website. For trial basis the game of Austin Community College (ACC) is up and running on the university's website with prior permission of ACC," Majumdar added. The learning tool for teachers, which the university is planning to launch in coming years, will be slightly advanced than the one for beginners. "It will enable teachers to search for various topics efficiently. Also it will help them preserve their online resources for posterity. There will be a facility of folders available to them where they can dump their searched matter," he said. At the time when vast pool of information is available online, DULS has been making efforts to collate all this data and make it available to students and teachers. "The university has spent 2.2 crores on subscription of electronic resources. At present DULS' has access to 30 databases of the world under which students can access around 3000 journals. At present the DULS has total of 25,000 online resources in the form of monographs, conference, proceedings and audio-visual material," he added. This online material is available under subscribed resources and resources available under public domain. "It is unfortunate that our students are still unaware of the resources they can avail of. It is the only university in India to have such a large number of online resources that can compete with any international university. For the resources available in the public domain they can have access from any part of the world. Students can avail of subscribed e-recourses through the university's computer network. All the colleges under the university have been connected to this network," Majumdar said further. "Along with the journals we have collated the vast data available on the internet on various subjects and put them in a capsule form so that students do not need to make much effort to find relevant material," he added. The online data available on the library's website and on the internet is so much that there is a need to educate users about its usage. For this, DULS has been running information literacy and competency programme in various colleges for postgraduate students, researchers and college professors. "We have already conducted 10 programmes of such kind and in the coming year we plan to conduct more. The programme makes participants efficient in online search on the internet in general and on university's website in particular," Majumdar said. Since it was difficult to conduct a programme for undergraduate students due to a large number, the current programme has taken care to inform teachers about it who can guide their students. Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
