Re: [AI] Sad News

2009-01-05 Thread Madhu Singhal
Dear Ketan, It is a very sad news we have lost a great lady Madhu Singhal.. - Original Message - From: Ketan Kothari muktake...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in. Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:45 AM Subject: [AI] Sad News Dear Friends, It is a heavy heart

Re: [AI] Change of default media player

2009-01-05 Thread Vamshi. G
Hi Sam Thank you very much. It's as easy as you said. And Janardhan sir, Media player classic is a media player which plays any audio or video irrespective of the format. It is accessible with key board. You can download it from http://www.codecguide.com/ -- Vamshi. G Landline: 0877-2243861

[AI] For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t

2009-01-05 Thread Roopakshi Pathania
This is one of the people I truely admire. Article: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times T. V. Raman with his guide dog Hubbell and Charles Chen, who also specializes in applications (like a screen reader for Firefox) for users with low or no sight. T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who

[AI] Computers won by girl students of VIUE

2009-01-05 Thread hitendra
Dear Members, Greetings from Venu Institute of Universal Education! We would like to share this good news with all. All India Confederation for the Blind conducted a Computer Skills Competition for girl students. Four of our students, Ms Mairembam Dhanapati Devi, Ms. Vijayanti, Ms.

Re: [AI] Loadstone works great

2009-01-05 Thread Asudani, Rajesh
However, one doubt I have is that what method is used by cell phone to connect to gps satellites? I have found sometimes that there is no satelite data when we do not get the cell network. Please throw some light on this. Rajesh -Original Message- From:

[AI] google accessible search

2009-01-05 Thread Ajay Dhanak
hi friends, there is something called accessible google search, which is offered by google for its visually impaired users. {sorry, if the topic has already been discussed} link: www.labs.google.com/accessible/ I was wondering how it is different from normal search and hence, found below

Re: [AI] google accessible search

2009-01-05 Thread Amiyo Biswas
I am using it for years now. The famous T.V. Raman designed this page. It's very acessible an easy. You can just use the jaws shortcut keys like h to navigate. It rates web sites in terms of accessibility. The only disadvantage is that it does not tell you how many items were found in the

[AI] A free screen reader

2009-01-05 Thread Thahir P C
friends, you might have heard of Ubuntu. it is a free operating system, adistribution of linux. ubuntu has a screen reader in it called Orca. as orca is in its developing stage, it is not as perfect as jaws, true. but it has its own advantages. it is an open source free software and so we need

Re: [AI] A new free internet library

2009-01-05 Thread Viraj
The best thing is that it contains literary works of the late 20th century that are not to be found in other free online resources like Project Gutenberg. Secondly, many of the works are by non-British, non-American writers. Last but not the least, these are scanned books that do not exclude

Re: [AI] Loadstone works great

2009-01-05 Thread Asudani, Rajesh
No, Geetha, I am talking about internal gps receiver in phones like n82 which I am using. So, how does it establish connection with the satellite? First, I thought it uses gprs but it does not. But the satellite data is not available whenever I am out of network coverage, so using loadstone when

[AI] Introduction

2009-01-05 Thread shobhan singh
Hi to all the list's members, I am Shobhan Singh. I am teaching in the Department of History at Zakir Husain College of Delhi University and pursuing P.H.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. I was member of this group earlier also but I don't know how I was unsubscribed by mistake. So I am

[AI] test mail

2009-01-05 Thread d.s.rajan
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Re: [AI] Query about N72 mobile

2009-01-05 Thread hitendra
I would suggest you, not to go for N72 as talks does not speak while you are on a call or listening to FM or any song. You can go for third generation phones, but I have no idea about Talks support during call or while playing music. Hitendra Rupani - Original Message - From: