Re: [Ai] need guidance to buy a accessible smart TV.

[harbhajan singh via Ai]

hi! sony kdl w800 D which is 2016 model will cost you around 53 k for 43 
inches.  and the newer modal may be somewhere about 60 k inr.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 12-Oct-2017, at 6:29 PM, Ajay Minocha via Ai 
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> 
> Hey Harbhajan,
> 
> How much is the cost for Sony smart TV?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ajay
> 
>> On 10/11/17, harbhajan singh via Ai  
>> wrote:
>> if your primary use is to use dth or cable service, an android smart tv is
>> the best as it will provide program guide to select from the programs you
>> want to watch.  it is also helpfull to take note of all the available input
>> ports such as usb and HDMI.  on the other hand if your purpose is to use
>> internet services and stream media from phone, any android box or apple tv
>> and also the amazon tv box can help you.  android smart tv from sony are
>> very accessible and have the talkback installed on them.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 11-Oct-2017, at 3:11 PM, chandrashekar R. via Ai
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have doubt in size. how it will be. is it like normal tv? will it
>>> supports for cable like DTH. how it looks. Please brief me, because am
>>> nil in this. I haven't seen anywhere.
>>> 
 On 10/11/17, Avee Gupta via Ai 
 wrote:
 hello everyone ,
 as far as my knowledge a standard led television is the best one as it
 can be made smart by using google chrome cast or amazon fire stick .
 google chrome cast is fully accessible through a android or apple
 phone where as i am not sure about amazon fire stick.
 a smart led tv costs you around 1.5 times as compared with a standard
 led and accessibility is doubtful .
 you should go for a standard led with either chrome cast or fire stick
 which costs you around 3k.
 
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Re: [Ai] Delhi: 3 persons have been sentenced life-imprisonment for raping a blind women

[Chirag Mittal via Ai]

wOW!!, BIG NEWS. remembered ME OF  QABIL MOVIE, PEOPLE LOOK BLIND
GIRLS AS LIKE BAIT THAT ALLURES THEM. wE SALUTE THE SPIRITS OF THAT
GIRL AND ALSO THANKFUL TO COPS AND JUDICIARY. tHEY SHALL BE ENTITILED
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> It was 2015. In the garb of helping a blind girl at Delhi Railway
> Station three men raped her. She recognized all the three through
> their voices and the Court has handed them life imprisonment.
> https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/metro/delhi/crime/3-sent-to-jail-for-life-for-gang-raping-blind-woman/articleshow/60899239.cms
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Re: [Ai] Request for printer recommendation.

[P. Subramani via Ai]

I would suggest hp3545, google for specs and price
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Dear All,
One of my friends wants to buy a WiFi-enabled multi-purpose printer to
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[Ai] dil se dil tak season3 with rj naresh from 10pm on radio udaan tonight...

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[Ai] Request for printer recommendation.

[Kakarla Nageswaraiah via Ai]

Dear All,
One of my friends wants to buy a WiFi-enabled multi-purpose printer to
use with his laptop as well as mobile.  Please recommend one which is
accessible for us.
Thanks and regards.


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Re: [Ai] need guidance to buy a accessible smart TV.

[Ajay Minocha via Ai]

Hey Harbhajan,

How much is the cost for Sony smart TV?

Thanks,
Ajay

On 10/11/17, harbhajan singh via Ai  wrote:
> if your primary use is to use dth or cable service, an android smart tv is
> the best as it will provide program guide to select from the programs you
> want to watch.  it is also helpfull to take note of all the available input
> ports such as usb and HDMI.  on the other hand if your purpose is to use
> internet services and stream media from phone, any android box or apple tv
> and also the amazon tv box can help you.  android smart tv from sony are
> very accessible and have the talkback installed on them.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 11-Oct-2017, at 3:11 PM, chandrashekar R. via Ai
>>  wrote:
>>
>> I have doubt in size. how it will be. is it like normal tv? will it
>> supports for cable like DTH. how it looks. Please brief me, because am
>> nil in this. I haven't seen anywhere.
>>
>>> On 10/11/17, Avee Gupta via Ai 
>>> wrote:
>>> hello everyone ,
>>> as far as my knowledge a standard led television is the best one as it
>>> can be made smart by using google chrome cast or amazon fire stick .
>>> google chrome cast is fully accessible through a android or apple
>>> phone where as i am not sure about amazon fire stick.
>>> a smart led tv costs you around 1.5 times as compared with a standard
>>> led and accessibility is doubtful .
>>> you should go for a standard led with either chrome cast or fire stick
>>> which costs you around 3k.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> avee gupta
>>> mob. 9406862456
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Re: [Ai] VIVIAN WANGOCT reports for the NyTimes: Blind Man’s Lawsuits Seek Access to College Websites

[Dhananjay Bhole via Ai]

On 10/11/17, avinash shahi via Ai  wrote:
> Hofstra University on Long Island is one of eight New York colleges
> named in lawsuits because, the suits say, their websites are
> inaccessible to the plaintiff, who is blind, and therefore in
> violation of the Americans
> The lawsuits came one after the other, against Fordham University,
> Manhattan College, Long Island University and other area colleges and
> universities.
>
> In all, eight suits have been filed in federal court in Manhattan over
> the past two weeks, most recently against Hofstra University on Long
> Island on Oct. 4. In each case, lawyers for Emanuel Delacruz, who is
> blind, charged that the college’s website is inaccessible to their
> plaintiff and therefore in violation of the Americans With
> Disabilities Act.
>
> The filings are part of a growing number of actions involving
> accessibility and the internet. The federal law requires that public
> accommodations be accessible to those with disabilities, and legal
> battles have long revolved around physical spaces and therefore
> physical solutions, such as elevators or wheelchair ramps. Now,
> advocates and lawyers argue, websites are also public spaces and need
> to be accessible, with things like captions or audio descriptions.
>
> Since January 2015, at least 751 lawsuits have been filed over the
> issue. The vast majority have focused on retailers and restaurants,
> according to a legal blog that tracks such suits. Only seven of the
> suits have been directed at academic websites. Mr. Delacruz’s suits
> alone doubled that count. And another website, which includes not only
> lawsuits but also government investigations into web or technological
> accessibility, lists 37 schools that have been accused of
> noncompliance with disability law.
>
> Advocates for the deaf sued Harvard and M.I.T. in 2015 for failing to
> caption online lectures, courses and other educational materials. In
> 2016, after a complaint by two deaf people, the Department of
> Justice’s civil rights division found the University of California,
> Berkeley, had violated disability law by not providing the appropriate
> accommodations for its own free video lectures and podcasts.
>
>  story
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Advertisement
> Continue reading the main story
>
>
>
> “As more and more students are aware of their rights, and as websites
> have become so much of what universities now focus on, in their
> marketing materials for example, it’s not surprising to me that there
> will be an increase in these types of lawsuits,” said Arlene Kanter,
> director of the Disability Law and Policy Program at Syracuse
> University’s law school.
>
> Whether the plaintiffs will prevail is unclear. The Americans With
> Disabilities Act, written in 1990, makes no mention of the internet.
> The Department of Justice, which enforces the act, has issued
> guidelines about web accessibility but no formal regulations on how to
> achieve it — and they seem unlikely to materialize soon, after the
> federal government in July placed web regulations on its list of
> “inactive” agenda items.
> The question has largely been left to judges, who have ruled both for
> and against disabled plaintiffs. In March, for example, a California
> judge dismissed a blind man’s suit against Domino’s Pizza, because the
> chain offered an option to order by telephone. But in June, a Florida
> judge ruled that the grocery store Winn-Dixie had to offer the same
> accommodations on its website as it did in stores, and in July, a
> judge in Brooklyn ruled that the website for Blick Art Materials had
> to be readily accessible to a blind man.
>
> The result of these conflicting rulings is a legal gray area ripe for,
> depending on your viewpoint, either significant civil rights advances
> or exploitation by lawyers looking to make a quick buck through
> settlements, said Tom Stebbins, executive director of the Lawsuit
> Reform Alliance of New York.
>
> Absent clarity from the federal government, Mr. Stebbins said, some
> lawyers have filed identical lawsuits against multiple businesses or
> universities in the hopes of reaching a settlement with one or more of
> them.
>
> “These are cut-and-paste lawsuits,” he said. “You just have these
> lawyers taking advantage of a good-intentioned law to make money.”
>
> The lawsuits filed in New York on behalf of Mr. Delacruz are “all
> similar,” his lawyer, Dana Gottlieb, wrote in an email. They state
> that Mr. Delacruz tried to find information, such as tuition costs,
> school location and academic calendars, but was unable gain access
> because the websites were not readable by his screen-reading software.
> A hyperlink in one complaint, against Hofstra, opens the website of
> the College of New Rochelle. According to court records, Ms. Gottlieb
> was ordered to refile one of the complaints because the wrong party
> was selected as the defendant.
> Ms. Gottlieb, of the Gottlieb & Associates law 

[Ai] Update on Accessible Indian Currency campaign

[Srinivasu Chakravarthula via Ai]

As I write this email, we only need at least 821 votes of 5000. This is a
great number. Let's continue to spread the word and achieve this number
before the weekend.

https://www.change.org/p/support-us-in-making-indian-currency-accessible-for-the-blind?recruiter=58323833_source=share_petition_medium=twitter_campaign=share_petition_term=share_petition=58323833_content=nafta_twitter_copy_en_1%3Areal_control

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Regards,

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[Ai] Delhi: 3 persons have been sentenced life-imprisonment for raping a blind women

[avinash shahi via Ai]

Can anyone help me in availing the full order?
It was 2015. In the garb of helping a blind girl at Delhi Railway
Station three men raped her. She recognized all the three through
their voices and the Court has handed them life imprisonment.
https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/metro/delhi/crime/3-sent-to-jail-for-life-for-gang-raping-blind-woman/articleshow/60899239.cms

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[Ai] Language as a battlefield: How we got from euthanasia to voluntary assisted dying

[avinash shahi via Ai]

If it were a train, this debate would have set off from Euthanasia
Central, stopped at Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, moved
on to Medically Assisted Death and Assisted Dying, before arriving at
Voluntary Assisted Dying, the form of words that our parliamentarians
have settled on (and which some would further reduce to the neutral
acronym VAD).
Read the full article at Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/language-as-a-battlefield-how-we-got-from-euthanasia-to-voluntary-assisted-dying-20171010-gyxwxb.html
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[Ai] VIVIAN WANGOCT reports for the NyTimes: Blind Man’s Lawsuits Seek Access to College Websites

[avinash shahi via Ai]

Hofstra University on Long Island is one of eight New York colleges
named in lawsuits because, the suits say, their websites are
inaccessible to the plaintiff, who is blind, and therefore in
violation of the Americans
The lawsuits came one after the other, against Fordham University,
Manhattan College, Long Island University and other area colleges and
universities.

In all, eight suits have been filed in federal court in Manhattan over
the past two weeks, most recently against Hofstra University on Long
Island on Oct. 4. In each case, lawyers for Emanuel Delacruz, who is
blind, charged that the college’s website is inaccessible to their
plaintiff and therefore in violation of the Americans With
Disabilities Act.

The filings are part of a growing number of actions involving
accessibility and the internet. The federal law requires that public
accommodations be accessible to those with disabilities, and legal
battles have long revolved around physical spaces and therefore
physical solutions, such as elevators or wheelchair ramps. Now,
advocates and lawyers argue, websites are also public spaces and need
to be accessible, with things like captions or audio descriptions.

Since January 2015, at least 751 lawsuits have been filed over the
issue. The vast majority have focused on retailers and restaurants,
according to a legal blog that tracks such suits. Only seven of the
suits have been directed at academic websites. Mr. Delacruz’s suits
alone doubled that count. And another website, which includes not only
lawsuits but also government investigations into web or technological
accessibility, lists 37 schools that have been accused of
noncompliance with disability law.

Advocates for the deaf sued Harvard and M.I.T. in 2015 for failing to
caption online lectures, courses and other educational materials. In
2016, after a complaint by two deaf people, the Department of
Justice’s civil rights division found the University of California,
Berkeley, had violated disability law by not providing the appropriate
accommodations for its own free video lectures and podcasts.

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“As more and more students are aware of their rights, and as websites
have become so much of what universities now focus on, in their
marketing materials for example, it’s not surprising to me that there
will be an increase in these types of lawsuits,” said Arlene Kanter,
director of the Disability Law and Policy Program at Syracuse
University’s law school.

Whether the plaintiffs will prevail is unclear. The Americans With
Disabilities Act, written in 1990, makes no mention of the internet.
The Department of Justice, which enforces the act, has issued
guidelines about web accessibility but no formal regulations on how to
achieve it — and they seem unlikely to materialize soon, after the
federal government in July placed web regulations on its list of
“inactive” agenda items.
The question has largely been left to judges, who have ruled both for
and against disabled plaintiffs. In March, for example, a California
judge dismissed a blind man’s suit against Domino’s Pizza, because the
chain offered an option to order by telephone. But in June, a Florida
judge ruled that the grocery store Winn-Dixie had to offer the same
accommodations on its website as it did in stores, and in July, a
judge in Brooklyn ruled that the website for Blick Art Materials had
to be readily accessible to a blind man.

The result of these conflicting rulings is a legal gray area ripe for,
depending on your viewpoint, either significant civil rights advances
or exploitation by lawyers looking to make a quick buck through
settlements, said Tom Stebbins, executive director of the Lawsuit
Reform Alliance of New York.

Absent clarity from the federal government, Mr. Stebbins said, some
lawyers have filed identical lawsuits against multiple businesses or
universities in the hopes of reaching a settlement with one or more of
them.

“These are cut-and-paste lawsuits,” he said. “You just have these
lawyers taking advantage of a good-intentioned law to make money.”

The lawsuits filed in New York on behalf of Mr. Delacruz are “all
similar,” his lawyer, Dana Gottlieb, wrote in an email. They state
that Mr. Delacruz tried to find information, such as tuition costs,
school location and academic calendars, but was unable gain access
because the websites were not readable by his screen-reading software.
A hyperlink in one complaint, against Hofstra, opens the website of
the College of New Rochelle. According to court records, Ms. Gottlieb
was ordered to refile one of the complaints because the wrong party
was selected as the defendant.
Ms. Gottlieb, of the Gottlieb & Associates law firm, declined to
comment further or to say anything more about her client, including
his age and what he hoped to study. But Jeffrey M. Gottlieb, the
founder of the firm, wrote in an email that private lawyers had to
step in to promote web accessibility,