Hi all,

I am using Siebel.
What does '_sweclient frame' mean?  

Thanks and regards,
Silpa.


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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:52:20 +0530
> From: "amar jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] Solutions required
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>Respected,
>
>As far as my knowledge is concerned there are no good OCR for Hindi.
>
>I know about one OCR which is Chittrankan, developed in some ware
>around 2005 by the C-dec, and government supported it.
>
>The accuracy of OCRs is really unsatisfactory.
>
>Secondly, if we get any OCR for scanning then I don't know any good
>tool or the way through which we can convert the scanned material into
>text.
>
>Because like English we do not have any OCR which converts the scanned
>material into the text automatically in Hindi. I also don't think that
>there is any good way of converting Hindi scanned material in
>accessible format which also provides accuracy.
>
>If you wish to change the default synthesizer of Jaws,
>
>Please follow these steps:
>
>Open Utility Menue,
>Then go to
>Configuration Manager.
>
>Now look for the menue "set options"
>
>There you will find a dialog
>  "synthesizers options..."
>
>I think pressing up erro two three times will take you there.
>
>Open that.
>
>Exactly I don't know the option name I even don't have Jaws 9
>otherwise I could have check it sorry for that, but Just look there
>there will be some profile or default synthesizer combo box.
>
>If still you did not find it then just write me, I will let you know any how.
>
>I hope that not exactly but in some way these answers will help you.
>
>Regards,
>Amar Jain.
>
>On 10/29/08, Fayaz Pasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > I hope all of you have had a really great festive season and enjoyed the
> > past few days. I just have a couple of queries to confirm.
> > 1) I had also asked this before on the list if I need to scan a Hindi
> > book into a word document so that I can read it using jaws please
> > provide me the steps. The specific details I want to understand include
> > if there is an OCR for Hindi available and in the first place is it
> > required. Secondly please list out the steps to scan a Hindi book and
> > convert into a word document or any other accessible format so that jaws
> > can red the book.
> > 2) in The jaws Hindi version the default speech synthesizer is sappi 5
> > (lekha) I wish to understand how can I change the default speech
> > synthesizer to either eloquence or any other installed on my machine.
> >
> > Looking forward to hear answers to the above queries.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Fayaz Pasha
> > Atlas india HR Accenture services PVTLTD
> > Mobile 9845942395
> > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:48:05 -0400
> From: "Vetrivel Adhimoolam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] Microsoft's Ozzie unveils `cloud computing' play
>To: <[email protected]>
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>       reply-type=original
>
>Just wondering to what extent they have accessibility in mind? At least
>Google's virtual programs do not.
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renuka Warrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:15 AM
>Subject: [AI] Microsoft's Ozzie unveils `cloud computing' play
>
>
> > The Hindu News Update Service
> >
> > News Update Service
> > Wednesday, October 29, 2008 : 0940 Hrs
> >
> > Sci. & Tech.
> > Microsoft's Ozzie unveils `cloud computing' play
> >
> > LOS ANGELES (AP): After more than two years as Microsoft's low-profile
> > chief software architect, Ray Ozzie finally has something to say: Windows
> > Azure.
> >
> >
> > The man who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp.'s top technical thinker
> > said Monday that Microsoft will compete with Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp.
> > and other
> > rivals in selling information storage space and computing power ``in the
> > cloud,'' distributed across massive data centers worldwide. The system,
> > Windows
> > Azure, will let companies and hobbyists alike build Web-based programs
> > without having to invest in their own server farms.
> >
> > Ozzie's remarks at a Los Angeles conference for software developers
> > indicated that after several years of disparate experiments, Microsoft is
> > closer to
> > a companywide strategy for coping with an upheaval in the software
> > industry _ the shift from powerful desktop programs to more lightweight,
> > inexpensive
> > ones that run over the Internet.
> >
> > Nimbler Web companies like Google Inc. have moved quickly to make programs
> > that do much of the work of Microsoft's cash-cow Office suite _ but they
> > do it
> > over the Internet at little or no cost to the user, and can be updated
> > frequently with new features and bug fixes.
> >
> > Microsoft has largely fumbled this transition. In its ``cloud'' products
> > before now, Microsoft has offered some of its business server software on
> > a subscription
> > basis and has cobbled together consumer Web services like e-mail and
> > messaging under the ``Live'' brand.
> >
> > Windows Azure is meant to be a broader ``platform'' for the cloud, much
> > like Vista for PCs and Windows Mobile for phones and other devices.
> > Microsoft's
> > own programs will run on it, as will those made by outside companies.
> >
> > Ozzie said Microsoft has learned enough managing its own Web sites and
> > programs, anticipating Web traffic spikes and lulls and ramping up or
> > dialing down
> > capacity, that it's ready to market this expertise to others.
> >
> >>From the perspective of an average computer user, Ozzie said in an
> >>interview, Azure is another step toward solving the modern headache of
> >>accessing files
> > from many different devices _ for instance, home, work and portable
> > computers and mobile phones.
> >
> > Microsoft is letting software developers test Azure, but Ozzie emphasized
> > that the system will change as more people kick the tires through 2009. He
> > did
> > not say when Microsoft will start selling access to Azure or how much it
> > will cost.
> >
> > Ozzie, 52, came on board in 2005 as a chief technical officer when
> > Microsoft bought his collaboration software company, Groove Networks.
> > Already respected
> > for his work with Web computing, Ozzie was asked to figure out how
> > Microsoft could survive the sea change toward software being delivered
> > online.
> >
> > In the 1980s, Ozzie worked at Lotus Development Corp., where he led work
> > on Lotus Symphony, a precursor to Microsoft's Office package, and Lotus
> > Notes,
> > which let people form groups to share documents and e-mail. Notes' success
> > prompted IBM to buy Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995.
> >
> > Ozzie then started Groove to refine his idea of ``groupware'' that lets
> > multiple people collaborate. Groove made it possible for people work
> > together on
> > the same virtual sketchpad, view the same video or edit documents
> > simultaneously, all while chatting by text or voice.
> >
> > This expertise made Ozzie a natural replacement for Gates as the
> > mastermind of Microsoft's broad software strategy. Shortly after joining
> > the company in
> > 2005, Ozzie wrote an influential memo advocating a shift away from some of
> > Microsoft's traditional reliance on selling desktop software and toward
> > Web-based
> > and sometimes ad-supported software. He urged Microsoft's product groups
> > to make software that can run on a computer desktop, in a Web browser, on
> > mobile
> > devices and in game consoles, and to give users ``seamless'' access to
> > their files no matter where they log on.
> >
> > But while Microsoft watchers have clamored for a concrete plan from Ozzie,
> > Microsoft's efforts have come off as scattered.
> >
> > Ray Valdes, an analyst at the research group Gartner Inc., said Monday
> > that Microsoft's Web services strategy still isn't cohesive. Microsoft is
> > ``taking
> > every major asset of intellectual property and cloud-enabling it to some
> > degree,'' the analyst said.
> >
> > Web startups have flocked to Amazon Web Services, but few big corporations
> > have taken the plunge. Azure is ``a defensive maneuver'' to make sure
> > those corporations
> > that already rely on Microsoft's servers and other technology don't defect
> > to Amazon or others, Valdes said.
> >
> > Monday's announcement was aimed at programmers who wanted to know that
> > their software skills will still be relevant as Microsoft shifts into this
> > new phase.
> > On Tuesday, the company is set to discuss changes for average PC users,
> > with top Office and Windows executives slated to speak.
> >
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:54:52 -0400
> From: "Vetrivel Adhimoolam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] Microsoft introduces Windows 7, dumps Vista....
>To: <[email protected]>
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>Further info about Windows 7 can be found by downloading the following
>podcast from BBC:
>
>http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/rss.xml
>
>One problem is though, this system is expected to contain touch screen
>facility and that's where again accesibility issues get completely ignored.
>
>Vetri.
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sudhir R (NeSTIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:52 AM
>Subject: [AI] Microsoft introduces Windows 7, dumps Vista....
>
>
>JOHN MARKOFF
>Published: October 28, 2008
>
>LOS ANGELES -
>Microsoft
>introduced what it said would be a slimmer and more responsive version of
>its Windows operating system on Tuesday, while unceremoniously dropping the
>brand
>name Vista for the new product.
>
>Related
>
>Microsoft Plans 'Cloud' Operating System
>(October 28, 2008)
>
>Times Topics: Microsoft Corporation
>
>The new version will instead be branded Windows 7, because it is the seventh
>of a long line of operating systems for PCs developed by the company since
>the 1980s. The company did not say when it would sell Windows 7 to the
>public.
>
>The company also said that it was planning to introduce a Web-based version
>of its Office programs, which is aimed at heading off a new wave of
>competitors
>like
>Google
>Docs and Zoho, which have deployed word processors, spreadsheets and
>presentation programs that run on a Web browser. The company was vague,
>however, about
>how it would price the programs and acknowledged that it would face
>skeptical Wall Street analysts who think the strategy would cannibalize the
>company's
>profitable Office franchise.
>
>After almost two years, Windows Vista is still getting a lackluster
>reception from consumers and facing a relentless marketing barrage from
>Apple.
>
>The problem was highlighted last week when Microsoft reported its financial
>results for the most recent quarter. Its Windows unit reported just a 2
>percent
>rise in revenue against a 4 percent decline in operating income. The
>computer industry viewed the setback as a shift of historic proportions. The
>company
>acknowledged last week that the mix of Windows sales in both mature and
>emerging markets had tipped more toward low-cost PCs, which come with
>lower-margin
>versions of Windows and often not Vista. Sales of Office software rose 23
>percent, bringing in more revenue than the operating system.
>
>On Tuesday morning, the company demonstrated Windows 7 before a group of
>more than 6,000 programmers attending the company's Professional Developers'
>Conference
>being held here through Thursday.
>
>"We've done a lot of work around how you manage the windows, how you launch
>programs and how you manage the windows of the programs that you've
>launched,"
>said Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft technologist who has led the development
>of the new version of Windows. "It's all about personalization and putting
>you in control of the PC, and that's a big initiative that we've had."
>
>Mr. Sinofsky took the stage and issued an apology of sorts for the problems
>and frustrations associated with Windows Vista. He said the company had
>listened
>to and was responding to the feedback.
>
>"We got feedback from reviews, from the press, a few bloggers here and
>there, oh, and some commercials," he said, with a nod to a lengthy Apple
>advertising
>campaign that has mercilessly poked fun at Microsoft's woes.
>
>He also said that he had not taken particular offense at Apple's ad campaign
>teasing the giant software developer. However, the laptop did have an "I'm
>a PC" sticker on its cover, a reference to a recent series of ads Microsoft
>ran that were widely viewed as a somewhat belated response to Apple. "As an
>engineering team we have to do what engineers do, when you build a product,
>when you build a service, you step back and say what have we learned from
>this,
>what can we do better, what went well, how do we build on our experience,"
>he added.
>
>He then demonstrated a "pre-beta" version of Windows, acknowledging that
>some features were still missing. The presentation focused generally on the
>more
>polished control features of Windows 7 including how on-screen notifications
>are handled, an issue that was an irritant for early Vista users who
>complained
>about the nannylike behavior of the software.
>
>Other new features in this very early version included an enhanced and more
>flexible task-bar, more powerful search features, and an easier-to-use home
>network and file sharing. There was also a hint that Microsoft plans to
>revise Windows 7 to take advantage of the coming wave of multicore
>microprocessors
> from
>Intel
>and
>Advanced Micro Devices.
>Mr. Sinofsky said the company would give more details on the ability of the
>new program to handle up to 256 processors.
>
>Mr. Sinofsky, who previously led the development of the company's Office
>application, showed Windows 7 running on a low-priced Lenovo notebook
>computer
>equipped with just one gigabyte of memory and a relatively low-power Intel
>Atom microprocessor. This suggests that the new version of the program will
>require far fewer resources than its predecessor, although Mr. Sinofsky
>declined to make specific performance promises.
>
>Microsoft also said that it planned to offer versions of a number of its
>Office applications via a Web browser instead of as an application on a PC,
>via
>the Microsoft Office Live Web service, and to businesses through a hosted
>subscription.
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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:21:05 +0530
> From: "prateek aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] About google chrome
>To: accessindia <[email protected]>,      "NAB Helpline"
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>Respected sir,
>Unfortunately, I could not find google chrome accessible enough.
>For full review, just click the following link on my website.
>http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com/chrome.htm/
>this review enlightens about it's Keyboard Operability, OS
>Accessibility Options Support, Google Chrome Interface, Google Chrome
>Document Pane, WAI ARIA Support, and many other accessibility checks.
>Hope you will find it of some help.
>With profound regards,
>Prateek agarwal.
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>---------- Original message ----------
> From: "bijoy sukumaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:29:16 +0530
>Subject: [AI] About google chrome
>Hai friends,
>This is bijoy again.
>Now i am here with an urge to know more about google chrome.
>As i am a fan of google am keen to know about their latest browser,
>that is google chrome.
>Have any one tried your hand on this?
>is it compatible with key board and jaws?
>What about it's speed and security?
>awaiting for your responses.
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:42:04 +0530
> From: "prateek aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] Solutions required
>To: accessindia <[email protected]>
>Message-ID:
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>
>respected sir,
>yes, we had a great festive season, and hoping for same for everyone else too.
>As per is your query is concern,
>I don't think there is any hindi O C R available till now.
>Though not sure if there is any other alternative available.
>  To change the default synthesizer, please use following steps.
>1.     Open jaws either by desktop or start menu
>2.     choos configuration manager from utilities
>3.     press alt and go inside set option menu
>4.     look for synthesizer options dialogue box.
>5.     Here, you can find an option to select your default synthesizer.
>Choose synthesizer of your choice, and press OK button (or just
>enter).
>You are done!
>  Hope it helps
>Regards,
>Prateek agarwal.
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>---------- Original  message ----------
> From: "Fayaz Pasha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:37:37 +0530
>Subject: [AI] Solutions required
>Hi List,
>I hope all of you have had a really great festive season and enjoyed the
>past few days. I just have a couple of queries to confirm.
>1) I had also asked this before on the list if I need to scan a Hindi
>book into a word document so that I can read it using jaws please
>provide me the steps. The specific details I want to understand include
>if there is an OCR for Hindi available and in the first place is it
>required. Secondly please list out the steps to scan a Hindi book and
>convert into a word document or any other accessible format so that jaws
>can red the book.
>2) in The jaws Hindi version the default speech synthesizer is sappi 5
>(lekha) I wish to understand how can I change the default speech
>synthesizer to either eloquence or any other installed on my machine.
>
>Looking forward to hear answers to the above queries.
>
>Regards,
>Fayaz Pasha
>Atlas india HR Accenture services PVTLTD
>Mobile 9845942395
>MSN:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>----------
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 6
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:53:58 +0530
> From: "prateek aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [AI] Mission To Extend Vision To Blind
>To: accessindia <[email protected]>
>Message-ID:
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>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>folks:
>this may be of interest
>
>Mission To Extend Vision To Blind
>
>Infusing a new ray of hope into the hearts of the visually
>impaired,the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) here
>has evolved a technology
>to enable the blind to go in for cosmetic changes restoring partial sight.
>
>If all goes well, a large number of visionless people may witness next
>year's Diwali exploiting the technology now available in the USA only,
>which costs
>800 dollars.
>
>Dr.Debabrata Basu, Head of the Department, Oxide and Bio-ceramic
>section,CGCRI, informed that 50 patients received implants at the
>Disha Eye Hospital, Barrackpore
>and were doing well.
>
>Affirming faith on research to empower the eyeballs with vision, he
>said, "We are now trying to see whether we can give these implants a
>solar coating and
>restore sight." In India, there are nearly 15 million blind people and
>many of them are one-eyed.
>
>The present demand of ocular implant was met by glass, coral or
>polymer, but these were not only expensive, they also had several
>post-operative disadvantages,
>Dr Basu maintained.
>
>"For instance, they don't provide mobility to the eye. And a person
>has to go on living with the stigma that is associated with a one-eyed
>person in society,"
>he opined.
>
>Dr Basu claimed that different reputed organisations of India like the
>All India Institute of Medial Sciences (AIIMS) and the Institute of
>Nuclear Medicine
>and Allied Sciences, New Delhi, were eager to use this technology on patients.
>
>"We were first approached by the Blind Association to come up with
>something like this and our effort is largely to give them social
>acceptability," the
>doctor maintained.
>
>Dr Abhijit Sen, noted eye-specialist of Kolkata, when asked to comment
>on the new findings, said the research of CGCRI would definitely have
>an impact on
>eyecare in the city.
>
>"We are now awaiting eagerly the result of the research on restoring
>sight," Dr Sen remarked.
>
>Medicos engaged in other fields, also welcomed the research of CGCRI
>and refuted the charge of the state healthcare "going to the docks."
>Regards,
>Prateek agarwal.
>Cell: 09928341197
>Skype:
>Prateek_agarwal32
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>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:48:14 +0530
> From: "prateek aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [AI] films involving blinds
>To: accessindia <[email protected]>
>Message-ID:
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>folks: this may be of interest to you.
>i've collected a list of those films all around the world in which
>blind or visually impaired characters were used.
>not just names, but full discription as country, length, leading
>acters,  and a short note is also available.
>  to visit this interesting page, go to my website, and choos our new
>brand section "miscellaneous".
>  here find the link, and enjoy.
>regards,
>prateek agarwal.
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>Message: 8
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:41:29 +0000
> From: "Shadab Husain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [AI] Mission To Extend Vision To Blind
>To: [email protected]
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>Well, informative article. But I think people suffering from retinal
>and optic nerve diseases won't get any benefit by this. What do you
>folks think? Shadab Husain
>
>http://shadablucknow.blogspot.com/
>
>
>On 10/30/08, prateek aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > folks:
> > this may be of interest
> >
> > Mission To Extend Vision To Blind
> >
> > Infusing a new ray of hope into the hearts of the visually
> > impaired,the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) here
> > has evolved a technology
> > to enable the blind to go in for cosmetic changes restoring partial sight.
> >
> > If all goes well, a large number of visionless people may witness next
> > year's Diwali exploiting the technology now available in the USA only,
> > which costs
> > 800 dollars.
> >
> > Dr.Debabrata Basu, Head of the Department, Oxide and Bio-ceramic
> > section,CGCRI, informed that 50 patients received implants at the
> > Disha Eye Hospital, Barrackpore
> > and were doing well.
> >
> > Affirming faith on research to empower the eyeballs with vision, he
> > said, "We are now trying to see whether we can give these implants a
> > solar coating and
> > restore sight." In India, there are nearly 15 million blind people and
> > many of them are one-eyed.
> >
> > The present demand of ocular implant was met by glass, coral or
> > polymer, but these were not only expensive, they also had several
> > post-operative disadvantages,
> > Dr Basu maintained.
> >
> > "For instance, they don't provide mobility to the eye. And a person
> > has to go on living with the stigma that is associated with a one-eyed
> > person in society,"
> > he opined.
> >
> > Dr Basu claimed that different reputed organisations of India like the
> > All India Institute of Medial Sciences (AIIMS) and the Institute of
> > Nuclear Medicine
> > and Allied Sciences, New Delhi, were eager to use this technology on
> > patients.
> >
> > "We were first approached by the Blind Association to come up with
> > something like this and our effort is largely to give them social
> > acceptability," the
> > doctor maintained.
> >
> > Dr Abhijit Sen, noted eye-specialist of Kolkata, when asked to comment
> > on the new findings, said the research of CGCRI would definitely have
> > an impact on
> > eyecare in the city.
> >
> > "We are now awaiting eagerly the result of the research on restoring
> > sight," Dr Sen remarked.
> >
> > Medicos engaged in other fields, also welcomed the research of CGCRI
> > and refuted the charge of the state healthcare "going to the docks."
> > Regards,
> > Prateek agarwal.
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