Greetings from NAB Helpline
The workshop on "Empowering Strategies for Young Visually Impaired Bankers"
was organized by Assistive Technology Helpline of NAB Delhi on 14th December
2013. The response to the workshop was enthusiastically positive and we got
constructive feedback from the participants.
National Association for the Blind Delhi Helpline has plans to empower
visually impaired bankers through such initiatives and to provide valuable
resources on the banking subject.
This interactive workshop on "Empowering Strategies for Young Visually
Impaired Bankers" was conducted to provide solutions to various problems
posed in the banking sector and provide a platform to share the
opportunities available for visually impaired persons in banking sector.
In this workshop the following topics were covered.
1. Possible job profiles for visually impaired bankers
2. Challenges in different job profiles
3. Empowering tools and strategies at workplace.
4. Audio demonstration and tips on accessing bank packages with screen
reading software.
5. Overcoming barriers.
6. Success stories on handling back office, HRMS, passbook printing,
operating ATM, handling MIS reports, monitoring credit. Etc.
The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Prashant Ranjan Verma (Joint secretary
at NAB Delhi), who is spearheading the IT wing of the organization.
Dr. Ashwini Kumar Agarwal and Mr. Rahul Gambhir were closely associated in
making it a great success.
Also we got inputs from Mr. Rajat Agarwal, Manager with Canara Bank, Mr.
Yogesh Taneja, and Asstt. Manager with UBI, Mr. Umang, Asstt. Mgr.
with UBI, Mr. S.S. Pathak, Asstt. Manager with PNB as resource persons at
the venue and Aditi Bhutan i, Gufran Ahmed, Arpit Jain, Jerin Jose
through their audio recordings.
Dr. Agarwal has rose to the rank of chief manager with Punjab national bank
and is associated with the bank since 1987 and presently posted at zonal
training center as senior faculty.
Mr. Verma is an expert in the area of accessibility and has provided
solutions to many challenges.
Mr. Rahul Gambhir is Assistant Manager at Union Bank of India, he has
innovated by making a presentation before the Union bank faculty members to
include VI in training classrooms as well as prepared a reference
document/manual for accessing Finacle (Core banking solution deployed across
various banks".
Dr. Ashwini Agarwal has given excellent inputs to blind bankers doing the
session with solution centric approach. His tips are extremely important for
even those who will join bank in coming times.
NAB helpline is sharing full proceedings of this two and half hour session
in mp3 format. We have made available multiple audio files for easy
listening.
Download zip folder of audio recording from below link
http://www.wuala.com/rahul.gambhir88/Documents/
Also a key resource in the form of take away material was made available
during the session which can be downloaded from below link.
http://www.wuala.com/rahul.gambhir88/Documents/
Take away material includes
1. Finacle CBS Reference document and I P messenger with JAWS, document
prepared by Rahul Gambhir and reviewed by Prashant Naik.
2. SBICBS manual prepared by Enable India (the document was available on
mailing lists, for benefits of blind bankers we are re-distributing it) 3.
Assignments to Visually Impaired 4. IIBF Books 5. Interview & GD Resources
by Dr. Ashwini Agarwal for IBPS qualified candidates 6. NAB Delhi MS OFFICE
Tutorials
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Please make a note that all the above material and recordings are prepared
only for the purpose of empowering legally blind people working in the banks
and not for any other use. We request here that it should be used for
learning purpose ONLY.
Lastly we thank all the participants for their cooperation and hope that you
will now be able to explore more job profiles at your bank and overcome the
challenges with the learning of CBS and screen reader workarounds.
Thanks/Regards,
Assistive Technology Helpline Team,
National Association for the blind,
Sec-5, R K Puram,
New Delhi-110022
Ph: 011-64556968
E-mail: helpl...@nabdelhi.in
Website: http://nabdelhi.in
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