The cost of Safa or Rs.1500 is well within the reach of everybody. However, at least 3 copies should have been permitted so that one could use once at home, other at office & another for emergency.
Regds, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November, 2006 10:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: AccessIndia Digest, Vol 7, Issue 13 Send AccessIndia mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of AccessIndia digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: First Special Olympics in Mumbai (S K) 2. Re: Fwd: First Special Olympics in Mumbai (Vetri) 3. Re: Link for SAFA. (Amiyo Biswas) 4. Do the Rights of the Disabled Extend to the Blind on the Web? (Dinesh Kaushal) 5. error in copying files from cd (hitendra) 6. JORDY by Enhanced vision (Hetal) 7. Re: Congratulations to Rahul Jain (Rahul Jain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:28:34 -0800 (PST) From: S K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AI] Fwd: First Special Olympics in Mumbai To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 01:42:24 -0800 From: "Vetri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: First Special Olympics in Mumbai To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original While forwarding messages to the list, it is a good idea to make sure that messages are not sent as an attachment - Or else we don't get the original message and thus the purpose of sharing them with the group remains unaccomplished. Vetri. ----- Original Message ----- From: "S K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:28 PM Subject: [AI] Fwd: First Special Olympics in Mumbai > > > Note: forwarded message attached. > > --------------------------------- > Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:19 +0530 From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [AI] Link for SAFA. To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Can I see its demonstration when I shall come to Delhi for the linux workshop? I don't know Hindi, but I can ask my organisation BPA to purchase it. Best regards, Amiyo. Cell: +91-9433464329 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keshav Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Link for SAFA. > well, as far as i know, 1 license for 1 pc only and, it is only for Hindi. > > regards, > Keshav. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Link for SAFA. > > > > Sorry, for writing again. On how many computers can I install it? Please > > provide relevant details. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Amiyo. > > > > Cell: +91-9433464329 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Prashant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:32 AM > > Subject: Re: [AI] Link for SAFA. > > > > > >> Vaachak does not have a demo version as of now. > >> you can purchase a license for Rs. 1500 from NAB Delhi. > >> If you are interested, send the payment to NAB with your request. > >> > >> Prashant Ranjan Verma > >> Assistant Manager > >> Technology Training Center > >> National Association for the Blind > >> Sec-5, R.K. Puram > >> New Delhi- 22 India > >> website: www.nabdelhi.org > >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Office Phone: +91 11 26102944, 26176379 > >> Mobile: 98 11 68 69 66 > >> Personal email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> International Trainer for DAISY DTB Production > >> Moderator DFAResource mailing list > >> www.daisy.org > >> www.daisy-for-all.org > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Devendra Nikose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:26 PM > >> Subject: Re: [AI] Link for SAFA. > >> > >> > >> > Hi Amiyo > >> > I downloaded Safa Before running safa, via voice and vachak should be > >> > installed. I have via voice but I do not have vachak. can I download > >> > its > >> > demo version > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > To: <[email protected]> > >> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:16 PM > >> > Subject: [AI] Link for SAFA. > >> > > >> > > >> >>I examined the source code behind the SAFA link and found out the > >> >>following > >> >>web address which I typed in the address bar and downloaded SAFA. So > >> >>you > >> >>can try it: > >> >> www.nabdelhi.org/safa.zip > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Best regards, > >> >> > >> >> Amiyo. > >> >> > >> >> Cell: +91-9433464329 > >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> 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 > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > 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 > >> > > >> > >> > >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:03:59 +0530 From: "Dinesh Kaushal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AI] Do the Rights of the Disabled Extend to the Blind on the Web? To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" The following article is from new york times, still it might be useful for people in india as well. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/technology/06ecom.html?th&emc=th Do the Rights of the Disabled Extend to the Blind on the Web? Marty Katz for The New York Times James Gashel of the National Federation of the Blind with voice-simulation technology at headquarters in Baltimore. Published: November 6, 2006 ACCORDING to an advocacy group, Target declined last year to make its Web site fully accessible to blind people with specialized screen-reading technology last year. If true ? and Target has denied the accusation in court ? it was a public relations blunder, and it may have been illegal as well. The National Federation of the Blind sued Target, contending that the company?s inaction violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because the Web site is essentially an extension of its other public accommodations, and as such, should be easily accessible to people with disabilities. A Target spokeswoman would not comment on those assertions, but in court the company offered testimony from three blind users rebutting the federation?s arguments. On Sept. 6, a federal judge in California held, in a preliminary ruling on the suit, that in some instances, Web sites must cater to disabled people. Legal scholars say the full reach of that ruling will not be clear until the case is decided, if it reaches that point. But in the meantime, the dispute shows that although commercial Web sites have made considerable strides in serving this small fraction of their customer base, there are still substantial difficulties on both sides of the screen. ?Web sites are more useful than they used to be, but there are still a few more hurdles than you?d like to have to go through,? said James Gashel, an executive director of the federation, based in Baltimore. Mr. Gashel said that most sites accommodate screen-reading technology, which tells blind users the layout of a Web page and describes images, search prompts and other fields into which users can type information to find a product or complete a purchase. (The most popular screen-reading software, Jaws for Windows from Freedom Scientific, sells for around $900.) When sites do not accommodate screen-reading software, the online shopping or browsing experience breaks down for the 200,000 or so of the nation?s 1.3 million people with vision disabilities who are online, according to Mr. Gashel. Most online stores go to great lengths to make sure that their sites are accessible to people with disabilities, simply because it is good business to allow as many people as possible to shop. And online-shopping technology specialists say it is not so difficult or costly a task. ?It?s very straightforward to make a site accessible,? said Dayna Bateman, senior information architect at Fry Inc., which operates e-commerce Web sites on behalf of large retailers including Brookstone, Eddie Bauer and Spiegel. Ms. Bateman said that the more software coding a Web site could offer to help screen readers and other technologies navigate a site, the more likely it was that the Web site would show up on search engine results, because Google, Yahoo and others looked to the same coding for clues about the Web page?s content. ?So it?s actually an advantage in the marketplace,? she said. ?I just don?t think a lot of folks are schooled enough in accessibility to know that.? For advocates of people with disabilities, the most effective tool for ensuring a smooth online experience has been the Americans with Disabilities Act. But because the law was signed in 1990, before the Web was in common use, its language offers little guidance on how to approach questions of online accessibility. A variety of lawsuits based on Disabilities Act provisions have been brought against online companies, notably one brought by Mr. Gashel?s organization against AOL in 1999, but the suits were settled before judges could offer clear guidance on how, or whether, the law applied to Web sites. In denying Target?s motion to dismiss the suit two months ago, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of United States District Court in San Francisco held that the law?s accessibility requirements applied to all services offered by a place of public accommodation. Since Target?s physical stores are places of public accommodation, the ruling said, its online store must also be accessible or the company must offer equally effective alternatives. So what about online-only Web merchants like Amazon.com, BlueNile, Drugstore.com and RedEnvelope as well as fast-growing young online companies like YouTube and MySpace? ?That issue is still up for grabs,? said Michael R. Masinter, a law professor who specializes in Disabilities Act and civil rights issues for Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mr. Masinter said the Target suit, since it involved an offline merchant?s online operations, would not address that issue. The case, though, is important to Amazon, because it runs Target?s online store as it does those of a handful of other big offline merchants. An Amazon spokeswoman, Patricia Smith, said that ?as a matter of course we work cooperatively with all of our retail partners to develop and implement the tools and features they want incorporated onto their Web sites.? Amazon, she added, ?is already generally usable for people with screen readers.? It has offered a text-only, streamlined site designed for such devices ( amazon.com/access). Mr. Masinter said one potentially thorny issue in the Target suit was whether phone services offered by online merchants were suitable substitutions for the Web site when the site did not work well for technologies like screen-reading software. Given the high cost of maintaining phone-based customer service operations, the question would be of particular interest to retailers and disabled people. Companies in one emerging category of Internet commerce, online education, have the most ground to make up in adapting their offerings for the disabled, according to Jane Jarrow, president of Disability Access Information and Support, an education industry consultancy. Most online-only schools, Ms. Jarrow said, ?are oblivious to the fact that they have a significant issue here.? Many online-only schools rely on chat rooms, for instance, for class discussions, and screen-reading software does not function properly with chat rooms ? nor can learning-disabled students often keep pace with the discussions. The issue has become critical because many online-only schools became eligible this summer to receive federal student aid. But to get such funds, organizations must adhere to regulations in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which has been updated to say that all Web sites of groups receiving federal money must be accessible to people with disabilities. Capella University, a Minneapolis-based institution known for online courses, employs a full-time disabilities specialist, who, among other things, has guided the school to avoid using online chat rooms for its courses. Some online schools follow similar approaches, but most do not, said Richard Allegra, director of professional development for the Association on Higher Education and Disability, an industry group. ?I think people are starting to understand their obligations to make their services accessible,? he said. ?The question they have is, how to do that?? ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:53:39 +0530 From: "hitendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AI] error in copying files from cd To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" hello, While pasting files in hard disk,which have been copied from a cd i frequently get the following message Error Copying File or Folder Cannot copy Dracula: Data error (cyclic redundancy check). OK How to tackle this problem. Is anything can be done to avoid this problem? Or is this due to corrupt CD Thanks Hitendra Rupani ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:27:15 +0530 From: "Hetal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AI] JORDY by Enhanced vision To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response > hi, The name of the site is as follows www.enhancedvision.com You can visit this site and get more info about it. > regards, > Hetal > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blindinfo.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hetal Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:38 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] JORDY by Enhanced vision > > >> Hi Hetal >> >> Do you have any website where we can read about it. >> >> Please let us know about the same. >> >> Regards >> Sushmeetha >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Hetal Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:06 AM >> Subject: [AI] JORDY by Enhanced vision >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am analysing one product for myself.. It's called JORDY. It is by >>> Enhanced Vision, USA. Does anyone know about it or have used it or tried >>> it before ? >>> >>> It's like a binoculars that you wear as glasses. One can also use it >>> with the docking tation to magnify the reading material and read it >>> through the monitor. >>> >>> Please provide me your feedback as soon as possible as I have only >>> couple of days to order it and get it carried to India for me. >>> >>> thank you in advance, >>> Hetal >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------- >>> Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India >>> Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. >>> Get it NOW >>> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------- >> Ascent Networks Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India >> >> >> > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:43:12 +0530 From: "Rahul Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [AI] Congratulations to Rahul Jain To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Dear Friends, It has always been a great learning experience here on Access India. My association with this amazing group goes way back to October 2001, in case you are wondering 'who is this joker that so many people are talking about all of a sudden' Life has just begun for me, The Sun has just risen on my career. There is so much to learn, so much to be done and so much to achieve in life. Besides we all know that to be counted amongst the ordinary a visually challenged individual has to be extraordinary. So whatever I have done is just a grain of salt in the sea. Now coming back to business? I take this opportunity to Thank 'all of you lovely people' for all the lovely wishes you have showered on me. I also convey a warm and special gratitude to Ms. Zainab Cheenikamwala for going out of the way in helping me with my exams and placement. Inspirational Mr. Sriram, Mr. Jyotindra Mehta, and all those friends who inspired me in times of despair are held in high regard. and above all, I wish to Thank Mr.Gordon Faife, Mr. Dayanand Kanchchan, Mr. C.H. Srinivasu and the whole team of N.A.B Bangalore for imbibing the fighting spirit in me. I love you all and wish all of you the best of health, success and happiness. Please remember 'A failure just indicates lack of sincere efforts in the right direction and shows you another path towards success?..' With warm regards, yours affectionately, Rahul Jain On 11/6/06, Rajani G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rahul > Congrats!!!!!!!!! > Rajani > > On 11/6/06, Dattu Agarwal Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > rahul i wish you a brite future. > > > > "Ch. Srinivasu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends, > > > > I am glad to inform you all that one of our members Rahul Jain has > completed > > his MBA and recently joined Indo Global Group at Pune as Head, Marketing > and > > Concept Analysis. Please join me to congratulate and wish him every > success. > > > > > > Rahul, Please share with us about your job profile etc. Wish you all the > > best. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Ch. 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