Dear All, Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, as completed its 20 years of services on 17th September, 2023. On reaching this important milestone, we have organized a series of 20 Tech Roshni sessions on different topics for persons with disabilities.
We are happy to announce our 7th online workshop on the theme “*Kibo's Solutions*” for persons with blindness and low vision on 4th November, 2023. *This Workshop is supported by the Dhun Pestonji Parakh Discretionary Trust.* Kibo provides an end-to-end content accessibility platform that makes reading-learning inclusive for persons with blindness and low-vision. With the various tools like OCR which helps to access printed and handwritten contents, translate, note taker and libraries. It supports 60+ international languages which includes Indian regional languages and 11 file-formats including PDF, TXT, EPUB, Daisy, DOCX, JPG, JPEG, PNG, MP3, OPUS, OGG. Not just that, you can use it as an audio player and even access over 1 Million+ books and listen on-the-go from their digital library partners. In the upcoming workshop, we will know more about the Kibo various tools etc. *Eligibility*: Participants should have good knowledge of phone gestures and computer with screen reader and touch typing. Limited seats are available. Those interested should kindly register by using the link appended below. *Register Here* https://forms.gle/SAXym3T7Rfu2Mfnp7 *Resource Person:* Akshita Sachdeva and Shivani (Kibo Team) and Keshavan Nadar (Sr. Technology, XRCVC) *Criteria*: Persons with print disabilities such as blind and low vision. *Date*: November 4, 2023 (Saturday). *Time*: 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm. *Venue*: Online Session (Zoom conferencing platform) The registration link will close at 2.00 pm on Thursday 2nd November, 2023. *Important Note:* 1. Instructions to login will be sent by email on 3rd November 2023, Friday to the registered participants only. 2. After clicking the above given link, fill in the form. Please do not click on the Request Edit Access button. If you click on it the form will not get submitted. Once the form is filled then click on the Submit button only. 3. Participants can use their personal earphones/headphones during the session. 4. After successful form submission, you will receive an acknowledgement email from google. Best Regards *XRCVC Team,* *Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC)* XRCVC, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai | Phone: 022-35223298 / 022-35223300 XRCVC – Viviana Extension, Viviana Mall, Thane | Phone: 022-61701178 / 77 Website: www.xrcvc.org Follow us on: Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/xrcvc/> | Instagram <https://instagram.com/xrcvc_mumbai?utm_medium=copy_link> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/XRCVC> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC577z2XtrsuCczb-vTif7rw> | LinkedIn <https://in.linkedin.com/company/xrcvc-xavier's-resource-centre-for-the-visually-challenged-> -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAGm3b-JsyUZhoK-vXMH2KPk0GRzrwyvfTZ5XmP8iBu2h_LmZHg%40mail.gmail.com.
