[AI] In Kolkata a Durga puja pandal crafted out of nails and threads to make it visible to blinds
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/in-kolkata-a-durga-puja-pandal-crafted-out-of-nails-and-threads-to-make-it-visible-to-the-blind-1910425.html 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..
[AI] BGFI's October Knowledge sharing Session On Career Planning
Dear All, Are you preparing for your very first job? Do you think that you have the potential to grow exponentially in your organization? Have you been looking for a lateral move to boost your career? Do you think that someone can greatly benefit from your career planning tips? If your answer to any of the questions is yes then, Join us! Date : 27th October 2018 Time : 3-6 PM Venue : College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. 38, New Marine Lines Churchgate (East) Mumbai. It is walkable from Churchgate Station. As Steve Jobs once said “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle”. Career holds a very important place in every individual’s life. Keeping this fact in mind, BGFI is delighted to host an open house discussion on Career planning in their next session. Join us as we give all these questions a thought and try to find a practical solution from the perspective of a visually impaired person. We aim to discuss following topics during the discussion: *How to land your first job with or without campus placements? *How to navigate your way through the accessibility and behavioral challenges? *How to identify your strengths and focus on those to progress in the organization? *How to keep yourself relevant in this rapidly changing era of technical advancement through learning new skills? *How to develop effective professional network and use it to your advantage? *How to find and make a lateral move? *How job search portals i.e. Naukri.com and professional Network i.e. LinkedIn work? For any Queries, please get in touch with Santosh Salian 9930775758/ 9892145699 -- Blind Graduates Forum of India. Alternate Phone: 9892145699 www.bgfi.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..
[AI] BGFI's October Knowledge sharing Session On Career Planning
Dear All, Are you preparing for your very first job? Do you think that you have the potential to grow exponentially in your organization? Have you been looking for a lateral move to boost your career? Do you think that someone can greatly benefit from your career planning tips? If your answer to any of the questions is yes then, Join us! Date : 28th July 2018 Time : 3-6 PM Venue : College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. 38, New Marine Lines Churchgate (East) Mumbai. It is walkable from Churchgate Station. As Steve Jobs once said “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle”. Career holds a very important place in every individual’s life. Keeping this fact in mind, BGFI is delighted to host an open house discussion on Career planning in their next session. Join us as we give all these questions a thought and try to find a practical solution from the perspective of a visually impaired person. We aim to discuss following topics during the discussion: *How to land your first job with or without campus placements? *How to navigate your way through the accessibility and behavioral challenges? *How to identify your strengths and focus on those to progress in the organization? *How to keep yourself relevant in this rapidly changing era of technical advancement through learning new skills? *How to develop effective professional network and use it to your advantage? *How to find and make a lateral move? *How job search portals i.e. Naukri.com and professional Network i.e. LinkedIn work? For any Queries, please get in touch with Santosh Salian 9930775758/ 9892145699 -- Blind Graduates Forum of India. Alternate Phone: 9892145699 www.bgfi.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..
[AI] Read about this Access Indian with an incredible story!
Dear friends: I’m sure you’re aware of the ManifestTheChange newsletter we’ve been publishing for the last couple of months. The newsletter’s profile section in the forthcoming issue will feature someone who’s familiar to the Access India community; someone who reached the top of his career and social ladder the hardest of ways. Let’s just say that the person is bringing several laurels to the blind community and we at ManifestTheChange team are very privileged and extremely proud of featuring this particular personality. Ok, ok, I can hear a lot of you whispering to yourself ‘who’s this?’ You can find out by making sure you get the copy of the newsletter. We’ve less than fifteen subscriptions to give away. Subscription to the newsletter will be closed for some time until we’ve sufficient space to open it again. Also, a lot of special content will be made available through our new knowledge sharing programmes, details of which we’ll share as soon as we’re ready. So, hurry for your copy and the goodies to come soon. Below is the link to get your copy of the Newsletter in your inbox! https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/417120?v=7 Regards, ManifestTheChange team 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..
[AI] [EMPOWER 2018] Invitation for participation in Design Challenge @ EMPOWER 2018
Dear sir/madam, We are pleased to announce design challenge competition @ EMPOWER 2018, an assistive technology conference from Oct 25 - 27, 2018. Any student or student team from any institution can participate in any one category of this challenge. The challenge consist of four categories - Challenge 1: Design of gifts/toys for autistic children Challenge 2: Group-communication for hearing-impaired Challenge 3: Beyond scribe Challenge 4: Adaptive Chair More details about challenge can be found here https://t.co/EXV2vr1zqn Deadline: October 25, 2018 (midnight) Mode of submission: 3 minute video (Sample video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=0MhglGTIiO8) Accepted submission will get an opportunity to present their submissions on October 27, 2018 at EMPOWER 2018. About EMPOWER 2018 - The EMPOWER 2018 conference (25-27 October, 2018) is being organized to bring together all stakeholders in the space of Assistive Technologies for people with disabilities. This includes users, user organizations, industries, special educators, inclusive designers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, policy makers and researchers engaged in different ways with the issues involved in creation, production, and dissemination of assistive technology solutions. This three-day event will see the active participation of all stakeholders not only to discuss current solutions but also to seed ideas to work on future solutions. Apart from exhibition, keynote talks, invited presentations, panel discussions, posters, tutorials, and user forums the event would consist of assistive technology design challenge for students on the last day of the conference October 27, 2018 (Saturday). The venue for this challenge is I-TEC Technopark, a conference and incubation center of IIT Delhi located in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City in Sonipat. Students participating in this event will also have an opportunity to listen to users of assistive technology and work on new unmet needs. We would like to request you to circulate it among your students. -- Thanks and Regard Akashdeep Bansal Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 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..
[AI] Now Indian bank portal has become inaccessible
All It is the turn of Indian bank this time. I failed to log in as they have introduced visual captcha. Again it may have happened because of revamp. We need to cranck up our efforts. Harish. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kanchan Pamnani Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 8:04 PM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] FW: Inaccessibility of the Union Bank Internet Website Who makes FEBA (Finacle? Kanchan -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kotian, H P Sent: 21 September 2018 17:39 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] FW: Inaccessibility of the Union Bank Internet Website Hi If that is the case, all other Banks who are on FEBA (Finacle Should also have similar problems. What is the scene with other Banks on this product? In the interim, would they be providing access to the old portal or do they expect, that you should suspend Banking for this period? I think, based on the response to the first query, you can get back to your Bank with the next bout. Harish. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kanchan Pamnani Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 2:13 PM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: [AI] FW: Inaccessibility of the Union Bank Internet Website Forwarded for all Union Bank users. And Warning to be aware for all other Bank customers Kanchan From: AGM DIT Alt Delivery Channel [mailto:agmadc@unionbankofindia.com] Sent: 14 September 2018 11:36 To: kanchanpamn...@gmail.com Cc: Mangesh Mahale; R Kandasamy; Vijay Kumar Yadav; Pravin Sharma; Harihar Pathy Subject: Inaccessibility of the Union Bank Internet Website Dear Sir/Madam, We acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 30.06.2018 on the captained subject. Bank has migrated the Internet Banking portal to new version i.e. FEBA (Finacle eBanking Application) on 11.06.2018. FEBA is a standard product for Internet Banking and standard product is not compatible for visually impaired users. Based on your request, Bank has already initiated the process to enable accessibility of Internet banking portal to visually impaired users and it may take approximate 4-5 months to complete the development/testing. We are very sorry for inconvenience caused to visually impaired users. धन्यवाद एवं भवदीय/Thanks & Regards, मनोज कुमार वर्मा / Manoj Kumar Verma, सहायक महा प्रबंधक / Asst. General Manager, यूनियन बैंक ऑफ इंडिया / Union Bank of India, सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी विभाग / Department of Information Technology, १/१अ, आदिशंकराचार्य मार्ग, पवई झील के सामने, पवई, / 1/1A Adi Shankarcharya Marg, Opp Powai Lake, Powai, अँधेरी (पूर्व), मुंबई -४०००७२ / Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400072. Tel D : 022-25710505 IP : 220505 कुशलता संवर्धन - आय अर्जन Enhance Earning Through Efficiency "Caution : Union Bank of India never sends mails, SMSs or make calls asking for personal information such as your bank account details, passwords, Debit / Credit card details etc,. Please do not respond to such calls in any manner. The message (including the attachment) in this e-mail is intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be confidential. If you have received this message by mistake, please inform the sender immediately via return e-mail and delete the e-mail. Though all reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure that the message and its attachments are free from Malware, Union Bank of India does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage the use of this e-mail may cause." --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com 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.. Caution: The Reserve Bank of India never sends mails, SMSs or makes calls asking for personal information such as your bank account details, passwords, etc. It never keeps or offers funds to anyone. Please do not respond in any manner to such offers, however official or attractive they may look. Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely
