Re: [AI] latest blogpost in Grappling With RP: Freedom withinlimitations

2014-08-17 Thread Alok Kaushik
Hi Subramani, Thanks for sharing this. I am reminded of a story about a blind man by Ruskin Bond. I am writing the gist of it and how I see it being related in our context. Start of story's gist: A blind man was travelling in a train. After some time a young lady boarded the train and sat on

[AI] Babus Leave Blind Siblings Running from Pillar to Post - The New Indian Express

2014-08-17 Thread Sadiqali T
Babus Leave Blind Siblings Running from Pillar to Post By Suresh M Jadar Published: 18th August 2014 06:00 AM Last Updated: 18th August 2014 04:34 AM DHARWAD:  Meet Yallappa Hulagannavar, a blind second-year PU student, who is being made to run from pillar to post at the district government offi

Re: [AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Bookshare this Saturday with BGFI!

2014-08-17 Thread Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI)
Dear All, We appreciate the enthusiasm and responses. Yes, demo will be arranged. To know about Smart Cane and its pricing, visit: www.smartcane.saksham.org Regards, The BGFI Team Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.

[AI] latest blogpost in Grappling With RP: Freedom within limitations

2014-08-17 Thread Subramani L
Freedom within limitations What else do I think on a day when our country celebrates its independence? The Americans celebrate their I-Day on July 4, Malaysians on Aug 31, Singaporians on Aug 9, while South Koreans like Indians mark the day on August 15. The days may differ, but the thoughts a

[AI] EC warned to make website differently-abled friendly

2014-08-17 Thread Vikas Kapoor
EC warned to make website differently-abled friendly Bindu Shajan Perappadan Pressure from disability rights activists has prompted the Court of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities to issue a stern warning and ultimatum to the Election Commission of India (ECI) asking it

Re: [AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Bookshare this Saturday with BGFI!

2014-08-17 Thread Hozefa Tambawala
Will the participants should able to take demo of smart cane? On 8/17/14, Parmala Bhat wrote: > thank you for the information. > - Original Message - > From: "Ganesh Babu" > To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerningthe disabled." > Sent: Sunday, Augus

Re: [AI] Need tool to convert mp3 to smf midi file

2014-08-17 Thread Him Prasad Gautam
hi, There are many tools for format conversion. But all are not accessible to screen reader. Among all, coolEditPro is the most powerful one and fully accessible. Perhaps goldwave is an appropriate next alternate. It is partially accessible but if you use nvda then an addon is available which makes

Re: [AI] A risky road for blind students in Rohini, Somreet Bhattacharya

2014-08-17 Thread Salim qureshi
yes you are wright. Same problem i'm faceing in mumbai also. Specially crawford market area in mumbai. On 8/17/14, RAghavendra wrote: > Dear List, > Adding to this, Now a days, streets are also becoming dangerous. in > front of houses people park their two wheelers and four wheelers both > side l

Re: [AI] A risky road for blind students in Rohini, Somreet Bhattacharya

2014-08-17 Thread Geetha Shamanna
Efforts made to keep the road near AICB free of vehicles are truly commendable. However, this article unfortunately gives the public a wrong impression about how blind people get around. Most blind people don't 'count their steps'. If they do, and if this is used as a mobility technique, the studen

Re: [AI] Blackberry models supported by screen reader

2014-08-17 Thread Sameer
Dear Sir, All the Blackberry phones which run on version 10 of the Blackberry OS have the screenreader installed by default. The Z series handsets are fully touch-screen phones & the Q series handsets have a physical keypad in addition to full touch-screen functionality. Regards Mr. Sameer

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread Jaison Bellarmine
friends, I find no problem in signing in to skype. I am using skype 6.18. Of-course GW connect is not working for quite a few days. On 8/17/14, jitesh jain wrote: > i am also faceing same problam please help me > > > warm regards > > On 8/17/14, B. R. Nautial wrote: >> Oh! All the old version

Re: [AI] for Kurzwell 1000

2014-08-17 Thread Mohit Gupta
hello, Thats good. But the size of the software is very big. I have 2 GB ram with windows 7. Will it slow down the speed of computer ? On 8/17/14, Pranav Lal wrote: > The main feature that the k1k gives you over fineReader is the ability to > scan and read at the same time. You do not have to sca

Re: [AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Bookshare this Saturday with BGFI!

2014-08-17 Thread Parmala Bhat
thank you for the information. - Original Message - From: "Ganesh Babu" To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled." Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Book

Re: [AI] Need tool to convert mp3 to smf midi file

2014-08-17 Thread anil kumar
Hi, I've also a querry about how to convert the audio .mp4 to .mp3 format? please guide me in this matter. regards, On 8/17/14, Sumesh Surendran wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to have a tool to convert mp3 files to MIDI file in smf > format (standard midi format) so that I can play them in y

Re: [AI] Blackberry models supported by screen reader

2014-08-17 Thread Rajneesh Gosain
Hi friend visit this link it might help you . http://mobileapps.blackberry.com/devicesoftware/entry.do?code=bsr On 8/17/14, Chandrashekhar Kulkarni wrote: > Respected list members, > > I understand that Blackberry phone has its own screen reader that is > freely downloadable. Please guide on the

Re: [AI] for Kurzwell 1000

2014-08-17 Thread Pranav Lal
The main feature that the k1k gives you over fineReader is the ability to scan and read at the same time. You do not have to scan first and then read. You also get page layout information such as where on a page a picture is located. You have a document scanning optimization feature. This allows

[AI] Need tool to convert mp3 to smf midi file

2014-08-17 Thread Sumesh Surendran
Dear all, I would like to have a tool to convert mp3 files to MIDI file in smf format (standard midi format) so that I can play them in yamaha i455 keyboard. If any of you are having any information about any such tool please be kind enough to share it to me. With lots of thanks and regards, Sume

Re: [AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Bookshare this Saturday with BGFI!

2014-08-17 Thread Ganesh Babu
Dear FRiends, how much it will cost for smart cane. regards Ganesh On 8/17/14, Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) wrote: > Dear All, > > Greetings from the Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI)! > > On this Saturday i.e. 23rd August 2014, get to know about Smart Cane > developed by IIT Delhi

[AI] Readers And Mobility Lovers: Get to know about Smart Cane and Bookshare this Saturday with BGFI!

2014-08-17 Thread Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI)
Dear All, Greetings from the Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI)! On this Saturday i.e. 23rd August 2014, get to know about Smart Cane developed by IIT Delhi, Phoenix Medical Systems Pvt. Ltd. and Saksham Trust, along with the most widely used accessible library Bookshare! We all know the imp

Re: [AI] regarding railway concession form

2014-08-17 Thread Vamshi. G
The certificate speaks about use of escort only in case of mentally retarded and patients. It doesn't speak about blind people. So, we can travel as per our wish, with or without an escort. On 8/17/14, Lilly wrote: > Railway concession is only elegible for persons who they are with hundred > pe

Re: [AI] regarding railway concession form

2014-08-17 Thread Lilly
Railway concession is only elegible for persons who they are with hundred per cent blindness. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of M Sivakumar Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:40 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibi

Re: [AI] Please help me

2014-08-17 Thread sohan
hello friend, please check it. may it helps you. Who was Helen Keller? Helen Keller is considered one of the leading figures of the twentieth century. When she was an infant, illness robbed her of her vision and hearing. Despite the social stigma of being deafblind, Helen devoted her life to he

Re: [AI] A risky road for blind students in Rohini, Somreet Bhattacharya

2014-08-17 Thread Lilly
None of them are going to do anything for these things, in my opinion. Either we have to survive with these obstacles or, we have to hire a private vehicle for going outside. As we are minority, no politicians or no volunteers are going to care. Unless otherwise they are gaining something from this

Re: [AI] A risky road for blind students in Rohini, Somreet Bhattacharya

2014-08-17 Thread RAghavendra
Dear List, Adding to this, Now a days, streets are also becoming dangerous. in front of houses people park their two wheelers and four wheelers both side leaving little space in-between. It is a great trouble for pedestrians. Also we have to face moving vehicles. I do experience this daily. Pl

[AI] Blackberry models supported by screen reader

2014-08-17 Thread Chandrashekhar Kulkarni
Respected list members, I understand that Blackberry phone has its own screen reader that is freely downloadable. Please guide on the following points. 1. Are all the Blackberry models supported by this screen reader, if not which are supported models, please specify. 2. Is it similar to Talks and

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread jitesh jain
i am also faceing same problam please help me warm regards On 8/17/14, B. R. Nautial wrote: > Oh! All the old version of Skype are useless now, you must have to use only > > the latest version of skype, 6.18. > the download link for the same is given below:- > http://download.skype.com/8cb825b

Re: [AI] info needed on moto e and moto g

2014-08-17 Thread bilal ahmed
hello dear i don't knows about keybord in moto phones but i can that they have talk back servis hope it works On 8/14/14, suhas J wrote: > hi i am suhas namboodiri form mumbai i wanted know that how can a > blind use tuch mobile is there talk bak on moto phones how is rivo kee > bord thanks > > >

Re: [AI] for Kurzwell 1000

2014-08-17 Thread meharaj shaik
On 8/17/14, meharaj shaik wrote: > for OCR recognition, finereader 11 is the advanced one. > but kurzwiel will give you more features, like, dictionary audio playing, > ECT., > > On 8/17/14, Mohit Gupta wrote: >> Dear friends. >> I am using fine reader 11 yet. But I have heard about kurzwell OCR

Re: [AI] for Kurzwell 1000

2014-08-17 Thread meharaj shaik
for OCR recognition, finereader 11 is the advanced one. but kurzwiel will give you more features, like, dictionary audio playing, ECT., On 8/17/14, Mohit Gupta wrote: > Dear friends. > I am using fine reader 11 yet. But I have heard about kurzwell OCR > software. Is it good for us to use kurz wel

Re: [AI] regarding railway concession form

2014-08-17 Thread M Sivakumar
will the person with Lowe vision use this railway concession form? Concession certificate form Mentioned for completely blind the word Discriminated to person with Lowe vision. On 8/14/14, bhawani shankar verma wrote: > there is no change in rules, only the format on which the certificat

[AI] Urgent Help Needed: Gmail deletion

2014-08-17 Thread Ketan Kothari
Hi friends, I have a problem: I have used around 96% of my gmail inbox and I want to delete certain mails. I am told that I could do it using filters: could anyone kindly suggest step by step process please? Thank you. With best wishes, Ketan -- Ketan Kothari Phone: [r] 24223281, Cell: 9987

[AI] Regarding G-mail

2014-08-17 Thread Narendra
Dear All, I want to add my photo to my g-mail profile picture. Please can anyone tell me step by step Regards, Narendra VG Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessin

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread B. R. Nautial
Oh! All the old version of Skype are useless now, you must have to use only the latest version of skype, 6.18. the download link for the same is given below:- http://download.skype.com/8cb825b36feb677a0ddd008696164d8d/partner/59/SkypeSetupFull.exe - Original Message - From: "Surinder" T

[AI] Please help me

2014-08-17 Thread Humayoun Azizi
Hi all! I need article about Heelenkeir as you know she was dif blind. Have a nice day, all the best. Humayoun Azizi. Skype Id humayounazizi53 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobi

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread Yogesh J
get latest Skype! On 8/17/14, Surinder wrote: > I am unable to connect to skype since last 4 days. I was using skype 5.9 > with Windows XP. > I am unable even to install the latest version of skype as it gives some > error message while installing. > > - Original Message - > From: "Samee

Re: [AI] Excel formula

2014-08-17 Thread Mukesh Baviskar
Yes, I sort the total marks in in descending order. I'm unable to sort the fail in subject column in custom sort as: P all, F1, F2, F3 and so on. Thank you. Regards, Mukesh Baviskar Mobile: 9403161157 -- From: "Aravind R" Sent: Sunday, August

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread Surinder
I am unable to connect to skype since last 4 days. I was using skype 5.9 with Windows XP. I am unable even to install the latest version of skype as it gives some error message while installing. - Original Message - From: "Sameer" To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility

Re: [AI] Enquiry about Skype

2014-08-17 Thread Sameer
Dear Friend, GW Connect does not support Skype since the first week of August. Microsoft has changed the Skype kit through which GW Connect used to connect to Skype. Regards Mr. Sameer Latey, Mumbai, India -Original Message- From: Mohit Gupta Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 11:28 AM T

[AI] for Kurzwell 1000

2014-08-17 Thread Mohit Gupta
Dear friends. I am using fine reader 11 yet. But I have heard about kurzwell OCR software. Is it good for us to use kurz well instead of fine reader. Which features are better in kurzwell than fine reader for VIs point of view. Thank you. -- Thanks and Regards, Mohit Gupta. Rajasthan. Registe

Re: [AI] Excel formula

2014-08-17 Thread Aravind R
can't you sort marks by decending order? On 8/17/14, Mukesh Baviskar wrote: > Dear friends, > > I want to sort out the top 5 students in the class. The criteria are as > follows: > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21186849/Multisort.xlsm > > > > 1. The total should be in descending