Re: [AI] 11-Year-Old Visually Challenged Boy Becomes Tamil Channel News Anchor
Hi, Can I get to listen to the 22 minutes of news reading by this visually impaired boy? Has it been archived or been made available for future access? Thanks. On 5/2/15, Suryajyothimetlapalli metlapallisuryajyo...@gmail.com wrote: 11-Year-Old Visually Challenged Boy Becomes Tamil Channel News Anchor Close on the heels of introducing a transgender as a new anchor, city-headquartered Tamil channel Lotus News today presented a visually challenged boy as a news reader, claiming it was the first in the world. Eleven-year-old Sriramanujam, born blind at birth, read the special news live with the help of Braille for 22 minutes, while his anxious teary-eyed parents watched. The news he read included the follow up of the Nepal earthquake and the Mahinda Rajapaksa trial. Channel Chairman, GKS Selvakumar told PTI that the main purpose of introducing the visually handicapped boy was to promote and create awareness on eye donation among the public, So that such talented people get their vision back and achieve their goals. At present he has been tasked with reading special newseekly and after some time, Sriramanujam would become a permanent daily news reader, he said. Sriramanujam said being blind, he wanted to achieve something in life and chose the TV medium, so that many people could see him reading the news. A fifth standard student of Government School at Uliyampalayam on the outskirts of the city, Sriramanujam, hailing from Palani, said he went through these news items six times before going live. I was scared in the first two minutes but then it was business and I read it fluently, he said. Asked what his ambition was, he said he wants to become a Collector. Source: http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/11-year-old-visually-challenged-boy-becomes-tamil-channel-news-anchor-759910 Smiling is a part of life. But smiling in all the situations is an art of life. Thanks and Regards, Mrs. Surya Jyothi Praneeth, CCT, SBH, RC Puram, Hyderabad, AP. Sent from my I PHONE. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. -- Warm Regards Bhavya Shah Using NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) free and open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows To download a copy of the free screen reader NVDA, please visit http://www.nvaccess.org/ Using Google Talkback on Motorolla G second generation Lollipop 5.0.2 Reach me through the following means: Mobile: +91 7506221750 E-mail id: bhavya.shah...@gmail.com Skype id : bhavya.09 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: NVDA better again
Hi, P L Sir, And I was under the impression that JAWS for DOS was the only screen reader in existence, or at least in dominance on the DOS platform... By the way, was there something like the Flipper or similarly worded screen reader as well, I remember reading it somewhere... Ashik Sir, Thanks for the appreciation. Thanks. On 5/2/15, Ashik ashikhir...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Bhavya, I am amazed to see that you read all these mails in details and reply to all the comment makers addressing their names. I appreciate your balanced attitude. - Original Message - From: Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 3:38 AM Subject: Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: NVDA better again Hi, Guffran Sir, Firstly, glad to see that you are now onboard the NVDA Users list. Now, coming to your actual points: Which form field in particular on which webpage are you talking about? In terms of web support, NVDA is more or less indisputantly the winner. Regarding mouseover links, raise that on the NVDA Users list, I'm not fully sure of that. Him Prasad Sir, Excellent and appropriate analogy used to describe the situation between the two. Hozefa Sir, I agree with Ashik Sir, we are simply encouraging and promoting the use of free and open source assistive technology whose development is progressive, active and full of potentials. JAWS must have had been the first in the screen reader industry, but, NVDA is changing the situation by offering amazing competition to JAWS, that too, at no cost. Vedprakash Sir, The bottomline of yours, and others' messages is to try and improve the product you like. There were some bugs and limitations of NVDA which I reported myself, and were fixed eventually through code contribution from the community more than the lead developers themselves. Sanjay Sir, Never heard of this CAB, could someone provide detailed information to quench my curiosity? Thanks. On 5/1/15, sanjay sanjaylpra...@yahoo.co.in wrote: No. before the advent of jaws and windows, blind people were using computers by a speech synthesiser called CAB (computer assistance for the blind) - Original Message - From: Hozefa Tambawala starh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 2:04 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: [AI] NVDA better again I agree that NVDA is playing a vital role by providing more or less same functionality compared to JAWS. But we should not forget that JAWS is the first screen reader which enabled the visually challenged to operate computer. If you have any complaints for JAWS regarding its functionality, you can write to Freedom Scientific tech support instead of complaining here. On 5/1/15, Ashik ashikhir...@gmail.com wrote: No, we don't critize JAWS. We just favour NVDA. We are not concerned with what JAWS does or does not. We are just happy that NVDA does all these with asking for any money. The developers are very enthusiastic and concerned about the needs of the visually impaired. - Original Message - From: Hozefa Tambawala starh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [AI] NVDA better again According to me, too much criticism is made for JAWS. On 5/1/15, gufran ahmed gufran.ahmed2...@gmail.com wrote: @Bhavya what i want to say that in jaws, we simply enter the desired word and press enter. the jaws leaves the form field. but in nvda, we have to press escape key in-order to leave the form field. another issue is onmouse over issue. in jaws we press insert+ctro+enter keys to activate the same. but i don't think that no option is available in nvda. On 4/30/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Guffran, Your query is unclear to me. It may help if you could elaborate/ellucidate. For anyone wanting to learn more about NVDA, I would strongly recommend subscribing to the NVDA Users list by sending a mail to nvda-requ...@freelists.org with the subject of Subscribe. Access India is a healthy group with a wealth of knowledge, however, the NVDA Users list is a more specialized group for NVDA Users, being the first one to receive official announcements. Also, a code contributor and Korean maintainer of the NVDA project, Joseph Lee, has created an audio tutorial series for new and existing users covering basic to advanced topics of NVDA. The tutorials are available freely on his website, whose link can be shared by me on demand. Thanks. On 4/30/15, Lissy Verghese lvmalayatt...@gmail.com wrote: Even I decide to bid farewell to JAWS from now onwards. Why should I search for cracks when there is a large
Re: [AI] windows 8.1
Your message is blank and does not convey anything. -Original Message- From: naina sharma Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 11:00 AM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] windows 8.1 On 5/3/15, Ketan Kothari muktake...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends, I have recently got a laptop with windows 8.1 and am thoroughly confused. What do I need to know different from windows 7? Are there no sounds for start or shut-down? How to insert them? Also I find the whole layout different. Could anyone please help? Thank you. With best wishes, Ketan Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. it is good to listen that you have got a lap-top with window 8 but you are facing some problem salution is that just open the prsonalise and to the desktop screen click in the sond there lot of sounds are available so celect according your wish and click in the save . Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Re: [AI] NVDA better again
The biggest complaint its its cost. \Making it unaffordable for every one. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Hozefa Tambawala Sent: 01 May 2015 14:04 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] NVDA better again I agree that NVDA is playing a vital role by providing more or less same functionality compared to JAWS. But we should not forget that JAWS is the first screen reader which enabled the visually challenged to operate computer. If you have any complaints for JAWS regarding its functionality, you can write to Freedom Scientific tech support instead of complaining here. On 5/1/15, Ashik ashikhir...@gmail.com wrote: No, we don't critize JAWS. We just favour NVDA. We are not concerned with what JAWS does or does not. We are just happy that NVDA does all these with asking for any money. The developers are very enthusiastic and concerned about the needs of the visually impaired. - Original Message - From: Hozefa Tambawala starh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [AI] NVDA better again According to me, too much criticism is made for JAWS. On 5/1/15, gufran ahmed gufran.ahmed2...@gmail.com wrote: @Bhavya what i want to say that in jaws, we simply enter the desired word and press enter. the jaws leaves the form field. but in nvda, we have to press escape key in-order to leave the form field. another issue is onmouse over issue. in jaws we press insert+ctro+enter keys to activate the same. but i don't think that insert+ctro+no option is available in nvda. On 4/30/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Guffran, Your query is unclear to me. It may help if you could elaborate/ellucidate. For anyone wanting to learn more about NVDA, I would strongly recommend subscribing to the NVDA Users list by sending a mail to nvda-requ...@freelists.org with the subject of Subscribe. Access India is a healthy group with a wealth of knowledge, however, the NVDA Users list is a more specialized group for NVDA Users, being the first one to receive official announcements. Also, a code contributor and Korean maintainer of the NVDA project, Joseph Lee, has created an audio tutorial series for new and existing users covering basic to advanced topics of NVDA. The tutorials are available freely on his website, whose link can be shared by me on demand. Thanks. On 4/30/15, Lissy Verghese lvmalayatt...@gmail.com wrote: Even I decide to bid farewell to JAWS from now onwards. Why should I search for cracks when there is a large group of dedicated developers for NVDA? Good-bye JAWS. On 4/30/15, Lissy Verghese lvmalayatt...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to chat using gmail standard view with NVDA...so I stick with JAWS. Any tips on easy navigation in Standard view while chatting with NVDA? That is the only trouble I face with NVDA. Thank you! Lissy Verghese On 4/27/15, gufran ahmed gufran.ahmed2...@gmail.com wrote: only one issue which i feel irritate and that is form field, in jaws we simply enter the keyword and press enter, it will give the result. but in NVDA, we have to press escape key each time followed by the desired value. otherwice it is the best screen reader instead. On 4/26/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, NVDA's primary advantage is its constantly maintained and advancing web accessibility support. I closely follow NVDA development (as I believe Him Prasad Sir and Pranavlal Sir do as well), and am impressed with its development progress and its lead developers (James Teh and Michael Curren)'s responsiveness and concern towards their user base. A year or so ago, I switched to NVDA after acquiring training for JAWS, and due to the seemless and minimal learning curve, transitioned myself. The NVDA community is as vibrant as the NVDA project itself. I agree with Him Prasad Sir as the main reason for usage of JAWS being that it is the screen reader for whom training is readily available and whose crack is widely distributed. I sometimes temporarily start JAWS and find it rather uncomfortable to work with. Let us endorse NVDA and ESpeak, two excellent community driven open source accessibility related projects! Ekinath Sir, Regarding I having to have helped you with NVDA settings, you can always file a constructive and well-articulated feature request or bug report at the NVDA issue tracker, whose link has been shared by someone in this thread itself, I believe. Thanks. On 4/24/15, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Hi, See http://www.saksham.org/help.php They have a mechanism for accepting donations which allows you to specify the purpose for said donation. -Original
Re: [AI] Dainak Bhaskar: MP CM will inaugurate NAB Building in Bhopal
You would be happy to learn that Arushi one of the active members of DAISY Forum of India has converted into Unicode DAISY text for classes 9th to 12th. Books are also being converted into DAISY Audio. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of avinash shahi Sent: 30 April 2015 12:40 To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Dainak Bhaskar: MP CM will inaugurate NAB Building in Bhopal I hope the needful was completed on Sunday gone by This is a great development NAB should now extend DAISY books in the state. Read this Hindi news http://www.bhaskar.com/news/MP-BPL-MAT-latest-bhopal-news-035518-1758857-NOR.html ित 40 छात्रों को अब स्थायी ठिकाना मिलेगा। बागमुगालिया प्रियदर्शनी सोसायटी मेंं बनी नई बिल्डिंग का लोकार्पण मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान रविवार को सुबह 11 बजे करेंगे। मुख्य अतिथि के रूप में सामाजिक न्याय मंत्री गोपाल भार्गव भी मौजूद रहेंगे। संस्था के एमएस खान ने बताया कि दूरदराज इलाकों से शहर में पढ़ने आए दृष्टिबाधित बच्चों के लिए हॉस्टल बनाने की खातिर कोई भी व्यक्ति अपनी बिल्डिंग नहीं देता था। बच्चों की परेशानी को देखकर एक कैंसर पेशेंट लक्ष्मी बाई ने अपने पति की स्मृति में 2000 स्क्वायर फीट का प्लाॅट हॉस्टल बनाने के लिए दान कर दिया साथ ही कुछ राशि भी दी। इसके बाद उनकी मौत हो गई। इसके बाद राजधानी के प्रसिद्ध डॉक्टर आरके बिसारिया ने राधे बिहारी बिसारिया की स्मृति में 45 लाख रुपए दिए। इस राशि से बिल्डिंग का निर्माण हुआ है -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Re: [AI] Dainak Bhaskar: MP CM will inaugurate NAB Building in Bhopal
Can we get books of standard 8 for cbs? Let us know Regards Paul -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Rohit Trivedi Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 2:26 AM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] Dainak Bhaskar: MP CM will inaugurate NAB Building in Bhopal You would be happy to learn that Arushi one of the active members of DAISY Forum of India has converted into Unicode DAISY text for classes 9th to 12th. Books are also being converted into DAISY Audio. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of avinash shahi Sent: 30 April 2015 12:40 To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Dainak Bhaskar: MP CM will inaugurate NAB Building in Bhopal I hope the needful was completed on Sunday gone by This is a great development NAB should now extend DAISY books in the state. Read this Hindi news http://www.bhaskar.com/news/MP-BPL-MAT-latest-bhopal-news-035518-1758857-NOR.html ित 40 छात्रों को अब स्थायी ठिकाना मिलेगा। बागमुगालिया प्रियदर्शनी सोसायटी मेंं बनी नई बिल्डिंग का लोकार्पण मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान रविवार को सुबह 11 बजे करेंगे। मुख्य अतिथि के रूप में सामाजिक न्याय मंत्री गोपाल भार्गव भी मौजूद रहेंगे। संस्था के एमएस खान ने बताया कि दूरदराज इलाकों से शहर में पढ़ने आए दृष्टिबाधित बच्चों के लिए हॉस्टल बनाने की खातिर कोई भी व्यक्ति अपनी बिल्डिंग नहीं देता था। बच्चों की परेशानी को देखकर एक कैंसर पेशेंट लक्ष्मी बाई ने अपने पति की स्मृति में 2000 स्क्वायर फीट का प्लाॅट हॉस्टल बनाने के लिए दान कर दिया साथ ही कुछ राशि भी दी। इसके बाद उनकी मौत हो गई। इसके बाद राजधानी के प्रसिद्ध डॉक्टर आरके बिसारिया ने राधे बिहारी बिसारिया की स्मृति में 45 लाख रुपए दिए। इस राशि से बिल्डिंग का निर्माण हुआ है -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. DISCLAIMER: This email may contain privileged information and is intended solely for the addressee, and any disclosure of this information is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this mail by mistake, please inform the sender immediately and delete this mail. Any information expressed in this mail does not necessarily reflect the views of CANARA BANK. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Bank. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The sender declares that no liability can be cast upon the sender for any error or omissions in the contents of the message that arise, as a result of e-mail transmission and further declares that the sender cannot be made liable for any loss suffered by any person, on account of having acted upon any messages which is vitiated by error, omissions or interception. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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
Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: NVDA better again
Hi Factually, Jaws was not the first screen reader. Anyways, it does not matter much. CAB was really a free screen reader which was called Tiny Talk. Harish - Original Message - From: Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: NVDA better again Hi, P L Sir, And I was under the impression that JAWS for DOS was the only screen reader in existence, or at least in dominance on the DOS platform... By the way, was there something like the Flipper or similarly worded screen reader as well, I remember reading it somewhere... Ashik Sir, Thanks for the appreciation. Thanks. On 5/2/15, Ashik ashikhir...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Bhavya, I am amazed to see that you read all these mails in details and reply to all the comment makers addressing their names. I appreciate your balanced attitude. - Original Message - From: Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 3:38 AM Subject: Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: NVDA better again Hi, Guffran Sir, Firstly, glad to see that you are now onboard the NVDA Users list. Now, coming to your actual points: Which form field in particular on which webpage are you talking about? In terms of web support, NVDA is more or less indisputantly the winner. Regarding mouseover links, raise that on the NVDA Users list, I'm not fully sure of that. Him Prasad Sir, Excellent and appropriate analogy used to describe the situation between the two. Hozefa Sir, I agree with Ashik Sir, we are simply encouraging and promoting the use of free and open source assistive technology whose development is progressive, active and full of potentials. JAWS must have had been the first in the screen reader industry, but, NVDA is changing the situation by offering amazing competition to JAWS, that too, at no cost. Vedprakash Sir, The bottomline of yours, and others' messages is to try and improve the product you like. There were some bugs and limitations of NVDA which I reported myself, and were fixed eventually through code contribution from the community more than the lead developers themselves. Sanjay Sir, Never heard of this CAB, could someone provide detailed information to quench my curiosity? Thanks. On 5/1/15, sanjay sanjaylpra...@yahoo.co.in wrote: No. before the advent of jaws and windows, blind people were using computers by a speech synthesiser called CAB (computer assistance for the blind) - Original Message - From: Hozefa Tambawala starh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 2:04 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: [AI] NVDA better again I agree that NVDA is playing a vital role by providing more or less same functionality compared to JAWS. But we should not forget that JAWS is the first screen reader which enabled the visually challenged to operate computer. If you have any complaints for JAWS regarding its functionality, you can write to Freedom Scientific tech support instead of complaining here. On 5/1/15, Ashik ashikhir...@gmail.com wrote: No, we don't critize JAWS. We just favour NVDA. We are not concerned with what JAWS does or does not. We are just happy that NVDA does all these with asking for any money. The developers are very enthusiastic and concerned about the needs of the visually impaired. - Original Message - From: Hozefa Tambawala starh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [AI] NVDA better again According to me, too much criticism is made for JAWS. On 5/1/15, gufran ahmed gufran.ahmed2...@gmail.com wrote: @Bhavya what i want to say that in jaws, we simply enter the desired word and press enter. the jaws leaves the form field. but in nvda, we have to press escape key in-order to leave the form field. another issue is onmouse over issue. in jaws we press insert+ctro+enter keys to activate the same. but i don't think that no option is available in nvda. On 4/30/15, Bhavya shah bhavya.shah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Guffran, Your query is unclear to me. It may help if you could elaborate/ellucidate. For anyone wanting to learn more about NVDA, I would strongly recommend subscribing to the NVDA Users list by sending a mail to nvda-requ...@freelists.org with the subject of Subscribe. Access India is a healthy group with a wealth of knowledge, however, the NVDA Users list is a more specialized group for NVDA Users, being the first one to receive official announcements. Also, a code contributor and Korean maintainer of the NVDA project, Joseph Lee, has created an audio
Re: [AI] Fwd: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt plans app for the disabled
Dear all,
I felt very happy hearing that the central government has started
Accessible India campaign. In august, i rote to PM Modi about
considering accessibility while designing new projects and about
starting a mission similar to clean India mission to make entire India
accessible for individuals with disabilities on mygov portal. It was a
hundred words message that we can send to PM. I called several times
to PMO. The response was not very good except Only they ware saying
that the office will consider your suggestion. And now it is in
reality. I think several of us might have requested to PM office for
accessible services and this would be qumilative effect. Thanks to PM.
I think now some thing will happent in India towards making barrier
free environment.
On 5/1/15, avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Satendra Singh dr.saten...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:52:20 +0530
Subject: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt
plans app for the disabled
To: IDA CRPD FORUM ida_crpd_fo...@yahoogroups.com,
disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com
Govt plans app for the disabledTimes of India TNN | May 1, 2015, 04.07 AM
IST
NEW DELHI: Now a person with disability or any other person will be able to
upload pictures and status of accessibility of buildings and public spaces
via an app on the portal to be created by the ministry of social justice
and empowerment.
The ministry is creating the dedicated portal for the disabled where they
can directly forward their grievances for action.
The Centre's ambitious Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan)
will start from seven states - Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Haryana- from this year envisaging a nation-wide
awareness campaign towards universal accessibility for all citizens
including persons with disabilities.
According to senior officials of the ministry, it has created a dedicated
program management unit, steering committee and other sub-committees in the
ministry with representation of professionals and experts to create media
strategy and media planning, conduct awareness workshops for sensitization
of all key stake holders as identified and creation and dissemination of
educational booklets for spreading the awareness. The next stage is to sign
MoU with various ministries and state government agencies for their role
and responsibilities for the campaign. This nationwide flagship campaign is
aimed at achieving universal accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
(PwDs).
According to 2011 census over 2.2% of the population is disabled, while the
erstwhile Planning Commission estimated that 5% of the population of India
is disabled. According to WHO 8% of the Indian population is disabled.
The meeting had representatives from national institutes (visual, hearing
and physically handicapped) and office of chief commissioner for persons
with disability. State government officials and representatives from
ministries like labour, social welfare, health, sports and youth affairs,
urban development, civil aviation, rural development and ASI, Delhi Metro
and CPWD, were also present.
In line with Nothing about us, without us, the steering committee had
representation from disability sector which includes Svayam, Samarthyam,
Enabling Unit of the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi
University and National Association for the Blind giving critical inputs.
While the plan is to achieve a barrier free environment for the PwDs in
next five years, the initial impetus is on capacity building and awareness
campaign.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-plans-app-for-the-disabled/articleshow/47116331.cms
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_
Dr Satendra Singh,
*MD, FAIMER, FSS*
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Associate Editor,
Research and Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME) http://www.rhime.in/
| Medical Education Unit http://medicaleducationunit.yolasite.com/ |
Coordinator, Enabling Unit http://enablingunit.yolasite.com/ |
University College of Medical Sciences GTB Hospital, Delhi, India
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Re: [AI] windows 8.1
the msgs is below At 09:37 AM 5/3/2015, you wrote: Your message is blank and does not convey anything. -Original Message- From: naina sharma Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 11:00 AM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] windows 8.1 On 5/3/15, Ketan Kothari muktake...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends, I have recently got a laptop with windows 8.1 and am thoroughly confused. What do I need to know different from windows 7? Are there no sounds for start or shut-down? How to insert them? Also I find the whole layout different. Could anyone please help? Thank you. With best wishes, Ketan Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. it is good to listen that you have got a lap-top with window 8 but you are facing some problem salution is that just open the prsonalise and to the desktop screen click in the sond there lot of sounds are available so celect according your wish and click in the save . Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. with warm regards Mahendra Galani skype chintu3886 Mobile+whats app+ Viber + Fasetime +4369917455595 Landline +4314943149 Addresse Herbst strasse 101/16/1 1160 Vienna Austria Europe Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Re: [AI] colleges and Universities in Mumbai: accessibility check!
Nice artical that provide current status of accessibility of academic institutions in Mumbai. Same is the situation In Pune We are trying to make course carriculam accessible, university web services accessibility compliant and Built environment barrier free. But it is getting very difficult to convince academic administraters. They all never say no for accessibility implementation. Their enthusiasm is very high at the time of our presentation. But latter on they never tern to take any action despite law. How long we should take their humble follow up. I feel very sorry that despite a part of the academic system, i could not yet do any change in my university. It is the court order. But who cares HC? I think there should be huge penelty for non compliance. Then only we can get accessible environment. Or we all should plan agitation to make academic system accessible for persons with disabilities. On 5/1/15, avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.hindustantimes.com/chunk-ht-ui-hteducationsectionpage-otherstories/india-s-educational-institutes-form-major-roadblock-for-the-disabled-study/article1-1342215.aspx -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. -- Dhananjay Bhole, coordinator, Accessibility research group, Department of Education and Extension, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganesh Khind road, Pune 411007. Email: drbh...@unipune.ac.in Website: http://www.unipune.ac.in/atbslc PH: +912025601352 Telephax: +912025601301 cell:+919850123212 through difficulties and problems, god gives us opportunities to learn and grow Dr.Kalam Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Re: [AI] Fwd: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt plans app for the disabled
Excellent: that's a perfect example how an empowered and awakened
citizen could contribute constructively for ushering in desired
governance. Many thanks for your exemplary initiative!
On 5/3/15, Dhananjay Bhole dhananjay.bh...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I felt very happy hearing that the central government has started
Accessible India campaign. In august, i rote to PM Modi about
considering accessibility while designing new projects and about
starting a mission similar to clean India mission to make entire India
accessible for individuals with disabilities on mygov portal. It was a
hundred words message that we can send to PM. I called several times
to PMO. The response was not very good except Only they ware saying
that the office will consider your suggestion. And now it is in
reality. I think several of us might have requested to PM office for
accessible services and this would be qumilative effect. Thanks to PM.
I think now some thing will happent in India towards making barrier
free environment.
On 5/1/15, avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Satendra Singh dr.saten...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:52:20 +0530
Subject: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt
plans app for the disabled
To: IDA CRPD FORUM ida_crpd_fo...@yahoogroups.com,
disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com
Govt plans app for the disabledTimes of India TNN | May 1, 2015, 04.07 AM
IST
NEW DELHI: Now a person with disability or any other person will be able
to
upload pictures and status of accessibility of buildings and public
spaces
via an app on the portal to be created by the ministry of social justice
and empowerment.
The ministry is creating the dedicated portal for the disabled where they
can directly forward their grievances for action.
The Centre's ambitious Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan)
will start from seven states - Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Haryana- from this year envisaging a
nation-wide
awareness campaign towards universal accessibility for all citizens
including persons with disabilities.
According to senior officials of the ministry, it has created a dedicated
program management unit, steering committee and other sub-committees in
the
ministry with representation of professionals and experts to create media
strategy and media planning, conduct awareness workshops for
sensitization
of all key stake holders as identified and creation and dissemination of
educational booklets for spreading the awareness. The next stage is to
sign
MoU with various ministries and state government agencies for their role
and responsibilities for the campaign. This nationwide flagship campaign
is
aimed at achieving universal accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
(PwDs).
According to 2011 census over 2.2% of the population is disabled, while
the
erstwhile Planning Commission estimated that 5% of the population of
India
is disabled. According to WHO 8% of the Indian population is disabled.
The meeting had representatives from national institutes (visual, hearing
and physically handicapped) and office of chief commissioner for persons
with disability. State government officials and representatives from
ministries like labour, social welfare, health, sports and youth affairs,
urban development, civil aviation, rural development and ASI, Delhi Metro
and CPWD, were also present.
In line with Nothing about us, without us, the steering committee had
representation from disability sector which includes Svayam, Samarthyam,
Enabling Unit of the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi
University and National Association for the Blind giving critical inputs.
While the plan is to achieve a barrier free environment for the PwDs in
next five years, the initial impetus is on capacity building and
awareness
campaign.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-plans-app-for-the-disabled/articleshow/47116331.cms
--
Warm regards
_
Dr Satendra Singh,
*MD, FAIMER, FSS*
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Associate Editor,
Research and Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME)
http://www.rhime.in/
| Medical Education Unit http://medicaleducationunit.yolasite.com/ |
Coordinator, Enabling Unit http://enablingunit.yolasite.com/ |
University College of Medical Sciences GTB Hospital, Delhi, India
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Re: [AI] Fwd: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt plans app for the disabled
Kudos to modi government for this wonderful step!
On 5/3/15, avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent: that's a perfect example how an empowered and awakened
citizen could contribute constructively for ushering in desired
governance. Many thanks for your exemplary initiative!
On 5/3/15, Dhananjay Bhole dhananjay.bh...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I felt very happy hearing that the central government has started
Accessible India campaign. In august, i rote to PM Modi about
considering accessibility while designing new projects and about
starting a mission similar to clean India mission to make entire India
accessible for individuals with disabilities on mygov portal. It was a
hundred words message that we can send to PM. I called several times
to PMO. The response was not very good except Only they ware saying
that the office will consider your suggestion. And now it is in
reality. I think several of us might have requested to PM office for
accessible services and this would be qumilative effect. Thanks to PM.
I think now some thing will happent in India towards making barrier
free environment.
On 5/1/15, avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Satendra Singh dr.saten...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:52:20 +0530
Subject: {Disability Studies India} Accessible India Campaign: Govt
plans app for the disabled
To: IDA CRPD FORUM ida_crpd_fo...@yahoogroups.com,
disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com
Govt plans app for the disabledTimes of India TNN | May 1, 2015, 04.07
AM
IST
NEW DELHI: Now a person with disability or any other person will be able
to
upload pictures and status of accessibility of buildings and public
spaces
via an app on the portal to be created by the ministry of social justice
and empowerment.
The ministry is creating the dedicated portal for the disabled where
they
can directly forward their grievances for action.
The Centre's ambitious Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat
Abhiyan)
will start from seven states - Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Haryana- from this year envisaging a
nation-wide
awareness campaign towards universal accessibility for all citizens
including persons with disabilities.
According to senior officials of the ministry, it has created a
dedicated
program management unit, steering committee and other sub-committees in
the
ministry with representation of professionals and experts to create
media
strategy and media planning, conduct awareness workshops for
sensitization
of all key stake holders as identified and creation and dissemination of
educational booklets for spreading the awareness. The next stage is to
sign
MoU with various ministries and state government agencies for their role
and responsibilities for the campaign. This nationwide flagship campaign
is
aimed at achieving universal accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
(PwDs).
According to 2011 census over 2.2% of the population is disabled, while
the
erstwhile Planning Commission estimated that 5% of the population of
India
is disabled. According to WHO 8% of the Indian population is disabled.
The meeting had representatives from national institutes (visual,
hearing
and physically handicapped) and office of chief commissioner for persons
with disability. State government officials and representatives from
ministries like labour, social welfare, health, sports and youth
affairs,
urban development, civil aviation, rural development and ASI, Delhi
Metro
and CPWD, were also present.
In line with Nothing about us, without us, the steering committee had
representation from disability sector which includes Svayam, Samarthyam,
Enabling Unit of the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi
University and National Association for the Blind giving critical
inputs.
While the plan is to achieve a barrier free environment for the PwDs in
next five years, the initial impetus is on capacity building and
awareness
campaign.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-plans-app-for-the-disabled/articleshow/47116331.cms
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*MD, FAIMER, FSS*
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Associate Editor,
Research and Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME)
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Re: [AI] Help required regarding shortcut keys for IP messenger
Dear friend, I am using IP Messenger in my office without any difficulty. I am using it with JAWS 14 and Windows 7 (32 bit). to open IP messenger, you can use the system tray list. To find the list of contacts use shift+tab from the edit box where the focus lands by default. To attach a file or folder you have to press application key after selecting the contact/s in the listt. Hope this helps. If you require any further assistance please contact me offline. Best regards, Jerin Jose Cell:+91-9539510031 On 5/3/15, Sri Nagamani Yalamanchili ysnagam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I need your suggestions in finding shortcut keys for using IP messenger. I am using JAWS fifteen. I am unable to use IP messenger (sending messages, opening address box in IP message, attaching and transferring files etc.) by using keyboard. If anybody knows the shortcut keys for the IP messenger Please share. -- With Best Regards Sri Officer Canara Bank Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
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