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1. Re: Middleware that Jaws supports (Kiran Kaja)
2. Re: meet Indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers and
news readers (Asudani, Rajesh)
3. Are you ready to become a trainer? (Dipendra Manocha)
4. louie braille documentary: (piyush patel)
5. Re: meet indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers and
newsreaders (Madhu Singhal)
6. louie braille documentary (piyush patel)
7. off topic must read (firoz)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:13:05 +0530
From: "Kiran Kaja" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AI] Middleware that Jaws supports
To: silpa <[email protected]>,
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You've got to be more specific when you say middleware. There are loads of
middleware products in the market and most of them don't worry about
accessibility that much. Some of the middleware developed by SAP is a
little
accessible as most of the UI used to configure the system is web based.
Also, a number of middleware products support command line input or
configuration through editable data files.
K
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, silpa
<[email protected]>wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any middleware in the market that Jaws supports?
Could anyone provide a link to such info?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Silpa.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:01:43 +0530
From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AI] meet Indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers
and news readers
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Good, but every time a blind person does something unusual, the claim of
being the first is made by way of routine. In this case, Ms. Amruta Bhople
has already done this feat more than three years ago in nagpur by
anchoring news on tv dchannel. and if I remember it well, we had discussed
it in this very forum. Now, I happen to personally know the girl and she
has moved on from professional aspirations in electronic media where her
application for a permanent post of announcer even on radio station was
not accepted citing her blindness.
Sorry for being bitter, but I am trying to be realistic, such gimicks are
nothing but cheap publicity.
Rajesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prateek
aggarwal
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:34 AM
To: accessindia
Subject: [AI] meet indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers and news
readers
Bangalore, Jan 10 (IANS) Meet Manjunath V., Srinivas Murthy and Ashok.
They are all in their early 20s, undergraduate and visually
challenged. They are the first three visually challenged people to
anchor news bulletins in the history of Indian television.They
anchored Kannada news on Doordarshan Kendra's regional Channel
Chandana in Bangalore Jan 4, the second birth centenary of Louis
Braille, founder of the Braille script.
The audience response has been so enthusiastic that Chandana channel
has decided to soon start a 10-minute Kannada news bulletin once a
month to be exclusively read by visually challenged people.
Manjunath, blind from birth and a second year student of bachelor of
arts at St Joseph Arts and Science college, Bangalore, said: "I am
very happy to have read news on TV. As a visually challenged person, I
have faced many difficulties and stigmas in my life. The entire act of
anchoring a news programme was quite empowering. I am looking forward
to anchoring more news bulletins in the coming months."
Murthy, a first year bachelor of arts student at the Vijayanagar first
grade government college, Bangalore, too is elated by his new
popularity.
"Now everybody in my college recognises me and asks for my autograph.
I feel good that I too could read news like any other normal person,"
smiled Srinivas, who is also blind from birth.
Ashok, a first year student of bachelor of arts at St Joseph Arts and
Science college, Bangalore, was happy that he made quite an impact by
reading news on a leading television channel.
"I feel great that through three of us the issues relating to visually
challenged people are getting noticed. We're no less than others and
need empathy and not sympathy to succeed in life," said Ashok, who is
also blind from birth.
Officials of the TV channel said that the audience response to these
three news anchors has been very encouraging.
"We were amazed to see the reaction of the audience. Since Jan 4 we
have been flooded with congratulatory messages for taking such a huge
step in encouraging visually challenged people. Within two months we
will start a special monthly news bulletin to be anchored by the three
visually challenged newsreaders," Rajendra Katti, programme executive
of Bangalore Doordarshan, told IANS.
"They have become heroes for their community and people are calling us
to find out more about all three of them. They are very good in their
job and we hope that the three will continue doing great work in the
coming months as news anchors," added Katti.
The three read news in all the six bulletins telecast on the channel
at 7.45 a.m., 11.00 a.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Jan 4,
along with regular news anchors Prabha Karanjee and D. Rajeshwari.
Asked why he initiated this experiment, Mahesh Joshi, senior director
of the Doordarshan Kendra here, said the three of them are very
talented and had the potential to be good news anchors.
"I never doubted their talent. They are as good and talented as any
other normal news reader. That is why I have chosen them. It was a
kind of tribute to Louis Braille on his second birth centenary," Joshi
said.
Joshi trained the three of them every day for nearly 30 minutes for
almost one month in the art of news reading and anchoring.
According to People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to
Outcomes, the latest report prepared by the World Bank in
collaboration with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the
country has 60 million disabled people.
Out of them 10 percent are hearing and speech impaired, whereas 48
percent are visually impaired, followed by 28 percent movement
impaired and 14 percent mentally disabled.
Louis Braille was the inventor of Braille, a world wide system used by
visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by
passing the fingers over characters made up on an arrangement of one
to six embossed points. Braille has been adapted to many languages
around the world.
(Maitreyee Boruah can be contacted at [email protected] )
cell: 09928341197
e-mail:
[email protected]
website:
http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:25:42 +0530
From: "Dipendra Manocha" <[email protected]>
Subject: [AI] Are you ready to become a trainer?
To: <[email protected]>
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DISABILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES in collaboration with Saksham Trust and
Equal
Opportunity Cell of Delhi University
PRESENTS
"TILTING AT WINDMILLS"
ATTITUDINAL TRAINING PROGRAM
1. WHAT IS THE "WINDMILLS" TRAINING PROGRAM?
"Windmills" is a high impact, attitudinal-training program developed in
the
United States of America. Windmills has been brought to South Africa by
Shakila Maharaj of Disability Management Services and adapted for South
African employers. She now will be in Delhi to introduce this programme
to
select group of potential trainers in India to bring this training to our
country. The curriculum consists of 11 sections (modules) that use
participation and discovery as learning vehicles.
2. WHAT IS THE PROGRAM OBJECTIVE?
To introduce the Wind Mills Training Programme to select potential
trainers
in India so that they could carry out training in India with the
objectives
and modules of the training given below.
To positively transform the attitudes and thereby the behaviors of
employers/managers in order to effectively lead, manage and work with
people
with disabilities in the workplace.
DATE AND VENUE OF THE PROGRAMME
The programme is for 4 days from January 27 - 30, 2009. . It will be held
at
the DU NTPC ICT Resource centre,
Centrel Library
Arts Faculty
Opposite Sri Ram College of Commerse
University of Delhi
North Campus
Delhi 110007
Sessions will be from 9:30 A.M. till 5:30 P.M.
HOW CAN WE JOIN
There is a registration fee of Rs. 1000 to join this 4 day programme. This
fee includes training materials and Tea/Coffee/meals. There are total of
15
seats for this programme. To register, please contact
Prashant RanjanVerma
Ph: 27662602
Email: [email protected]
3. HOW CAN THE "WINDMILLS" PROGRAM HELP MY ORGANISATION?
Many organisations would like to employ persons with disabilities but find
that fears, biases and myths create barriers in the hiring process. The
training focuses on attitudes and human factors, but it also concerns
issues
including legal requirements and accommodation. The modules primarily
consist of exercises relevant to the everyday world of work to which
participants can relate and then remember on the job. The new "Windmills"
program also aims to incorporate language and requirements of various
Indian
legislations. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which as been
influential in shaping Indian legislation is included as a frame of
reference.
4. HOW IS THE PROGRAM DESIGNED?
The curriculum was designed to be easily portable, and it is comprised of
11
training modules that take about one hour each to complete. The modules
may
stand alone, or a number of modules can be incorporated into a longer
presentation. It is designed so that the modules can be used to
supplement
and enhance on-going training programs within the organisation. The
program
targets mid-level managers, human resources professionals and first line
supervisors, however, it can be an effective tool for all employees.
Users
of the complete training program will find increased communications within
the organisation.
Although Indian legislation prohibits employment discrimination against
persons with disabilities, attitude often remains as the most significant
barrier to employment. The "Windmills" curriculum seeks to remedy
attitudinal barriers.
5. WHY USE THE "WINDMILLS" PROGRAM?
"Windmills" works! Employers who use the program report a significant
increase in the hiring of people with disabilities. Supervisors feel more
confident in working with disabled persons after the training. Managers
feel
more confident about supervising employees with disabilities. "Windmills"
helps employers successfully include people with disabilities as a valued
labour resource.
"WINDMILLS" MODULES
MODULE 1 - EMPATHY
MODULE 2 - THE STORY
MODULE 3 - THE CALENDAR GAME
MODULE 4 - RUMOUR GAME
MODULE 5 - PROFILE
MODULE 6 - INTERVIEW
MODULE 7 - PICK A DISABILITY
MODULE 8 - ASK IT BASKET
MODULE 9 - ENCOUNTER
MODULE 10 - WHOSE FAULT
MODULE 11 - REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
KEY OUTCOMES/BENEFITS OF THE WINDMILLS PROGRAM
OUTCOME 1 - New Insights: Paradigm Shift
Participants explore their misperceptions, prejudices and myths towards
people with disabilities and the sources from which they originate. The
modules take the participants through an ingeniously designed soul
searching
process of self-discovery whereby the participants experience new growth
in
their understanding of the world of people with disabilities. In letting
go
of these limiting thoughts, new beliefs and values are formed,
characterised
by open mindedness and objectivity.
BENEFITS
1. This paradigm shift shows itself not only in changed attitudes
towards people with disabilities but also permeates the management style
of
the participant. People management skills are enhanced and all employees
benefit, disabled and non-disabled. The organisation gains a better
adjusted manager with improved leadership qualities.
2. The manager's attitude towards people with disabilities in turn
influences the attitude of the team. Co-workers learn to respect and value
the contributions of their disabled counterparts. They are no longer seen
as token positions but as legitimate players and an integral part of
business success.
OUTCOME 2 - Increased Confidence
Participants acquire new confidence in managing their relationships and
interactions with people with disabilities.
BENEFITS
1. Managers develop an open and transparent communication style towards
employees with disabilities. Consequently more effective supervision
results
and both negative and positive situations are handled appropriately. The
organization gains in enhanced team working and improved employee
relations.
OUTCOME 3 - Greater competency fit - Job and Person
The comprehensive and in-depth understanding of disability issues provided
by the modules leads to effective recruitment, selection
BENEFITS
1. More people with disabilities are employed, not because they are
disabled, but because their abilities are recognized and competencies
accurately assessed and matched to the outputs of the job. The
organization
has benefited by gaining access to a wider talent pool from which it can
recruit.
2. A successful competency fit results and superior performance job
satisfaction for employees with disabilities. Furthermore, human resources
development improves since managers are better able both to
recognize and develop employee potential for advancement.
3. A greater competency fit means lower employee turnover. Recruitment
costs are reduced and talent retention increased. A greater
return-on-investment on employee development results. A win-win situation
is
achieved both for employees with disabilities and the organization.
4. A major beneficial spin-off from this outcome is the retention of
talents and competencies and the continued productivity and employment of
persons disabled through occupational injury. The often unnecessary and
costly exercise of medical boarding and its more costly and destructive
result of excluding the economic participation of people with disabilities
is greatly reduced.
OUTCOME 4 - Social Responsibility
Windmills leave participants with a heightened sense towards social
responsibility. There is an acute awareness and recognition of the
inequities experienced by people with disabilities and it's sources.
Participants internalize the role of change agents and disability
champions.
BENEFITS
1. Managers awaken to the social responsibility and business value of
employing people with disabilities. They embrace and implement more
readily
the principles of diversity management and employment equity in the
workplace.
2. The organization gains in that greater legislative compliance is
achieved and major costs from legislative contraventions and litigations
are
reduced.
3. A corporate culture of inclusion together with a corporate image of
a progressive, equal opportunity employer emerges.
SOUTH AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS THAT USED THE "WINDMILLS" PROGRAM
First National Bank
Standard Bank
FASSETT
Bank Seta
Service Seta
Transnet
Eskom
Total SA
Sun Coast Casino
National Government:
Department of Social Development
Department of Labour
Provincial Government:
Western Cape
Eastern Cape
Gauteng
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Gauteng Provisional Hospitals
Disabled Person's Organizations
AMERICAN ORGANISATIONS USING THE "WINDMILLS" PROGRAM
BUSINESS
IBM Corporation Atlantic Richfield Company
(ARCO)
Digital Equipment Co. AT&T
General Electric Co. Lockheed Corporation
Syntex Corporation U.S. Bancorp
Bank of America Prudentail Insurance Co.
TRW Corporation Aerojet
Xerox Corporation ITT
Chevron USA Fairchild Camera and
Equipment Co.
The Carnation Company U.S. West Communications
Rockwell International McDonald's
Bechtel Corporation Northrop Corp.
Hughes Aircraft Hewlett-Packard
Wells Fargo Bank Canadian Broadcast
Assoc.
Canadian Banking Co.
GOVERNMENT
The President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
California Employment Development Department and Department of
Rehabilitation
Social Security Administration
NASA
National Institute of Health
Department of Army
Department of Navy
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Manpower Services, England
State department of Water Resources
States of Ohio and Alaska
U.S. Department of Labour
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
U.S. Department of Corrections
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Central Intelligence Agency
COMMENTS FROM "WINDMILLS" TRAINEES
" All I can say about the training is that our employees that have gone
through "Windmills" now are hiring disabled individuals".
Staff, Internal Revenue Service
"Excellent design. It was evident that a lot of thought and feeling has
gone into the program. It addressed many of the problems our supervisors
are having who employ disabled persons".
Administrator, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Centre
" I will feel much more comfortable working with persons with
disabilities".
Personnel Manager, ARCO
" I have a totally different outlook on disabled individuals thanks to
this
program. I feel like my eyes have finally been opened."
Personnel Staff, TRW
"This workshop was excellent and the information will be used in my
present
position to break down attitudinal barriers."
Personnel Manager, Prudential Insurance Company
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:28:22 +0530
From: "piyush patel" <[email protected]>
Subject: [AI] louie braille documentary:
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <009901c974b5$769e05a0$0201a...@piush>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
kindly find this link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uwsl8v
good luck, piyush Patel
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:44:28 +0530
From: "Madhu Singhal" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AI] meet indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers
and newsreaders
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <002201c974b7$b81e23f0$2101a...@madhu>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Dear Prateek,
I would like to inform you that is the initiative hadbeen taken by
National
Federation of the blind karnatakabranch to talk to the senior director
door
darshan to do this event and he had accepted.
We are very greatful to him.
We will pursue this matter that it should continue.
Madhu Singhal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "prateek aggarwal" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:34 AM
Subject: [AI] meet indian TV's first visually impaired TV ankers and
newsreaders
Bangalore, Jan 10 (IANS) Meet Manjunath V., Srinivas Murthy and Ashok.
They are all in their early 20s, undergraduate and visually
challenged. They are the first three visually challenged people to
anchor news bulletins in the history of Indian television.They
anchored Kannada news on Doordarshan Kendra's regional Channel
Chandana in Bangalore Jan 4, the second birth centenary of Louis
Braille, founder of the Braille script.
The audience response has been so enthusiastic that Chandana channel
has decided to soon start a 10-minute Kannada news bulletin once a
month to be exclusively read by visually challenged people.
Manjunath, blind from birth and a second year student of bachelor of
arts at St Joseph Arts and Science college, Bangalore, said: "I am
very happy to have read news on TV. As a visually challenged person, I
have faced many difficulties and stigmas in my life. The entire act of
anchoring a news programme was quite empowering. I am looking forward
to anchoring more news bulletins in the coming months."
Murthy, a first year bachelor of arts student at the Vijayanagar first
grade government college, Bangalore, too is elated by his new
popularity.
"Now everybody in my college recognises me and asks for my autograph.
I feel good that I too could read news like any other normal person,"
smiled Srinivas, who is also blind from birth.
Ashok, a first year student of bachelor of arts at St Joseph Arts and
Science college, Bangalore, was happy that he made quite an impact by
reading news on a leading television channel.
"I feel great that through three of us the issues relating to visually
challenged people are getting noticed. We're no less than others and
need empathy and not sympathy to succeed in life," said Ashok, who is
also blind from birth.
Officials of the TV channel said that the audience response to these
three news anchors has been very encouraging.
"We were amazed to see the reaction of the audience. Since Jan 4 we
have been flooded with congratulatory messages for taking such a huge
step in encouraging visually challenged people. Within two months we
will start a special monthly news bulletin to be anchored by the three
visually challenged newsreaders," Rajendra Katti, programme executive
of Bangalore Doordarshan, told IANS.
"They have become heroes for their community and people are calling us
to find out more about all three of them. They are very good in their
job and we hope that the three will continue doing great work in the
coming months as news anchors," added Katti.
The three read news in all the six bulletins telecast on the channel
at 7.45 a.m., 11.00 a.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Jan 4,
along with regular news anchors Prabha Karanjee and D. Rajeshwari.
Asked why he initiated this experiment, Mahesh Joshi, senior director
of the Doordarshan Kendra here, said the three of them are very
talented and had the potential to be good news anchors.
"I never doubted their talent. They are as good and talented as any
other normal news reader. That is why I have chosen them. It was a
kind of tribute to Louis Braille on his second birth centenary," Joshi
said.
Joshi trained the three of them every day for nearly 30 minutes for
almost one month in the art of news reading and anchoring.
According to People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to
Outcomes, the latest report prepared by the World Bank in
collaboration with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the
country has 60 million disabled people.
Out of them 10 percent are hearing and speech impaired, whereas 48
percent are visually impaired, followed by 28 percent movement
impaired and 14 percent mentally disabled.
Louis Braille was the inventor of Braille, a world wide system used by
visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by
passing the fingers over characters made up on an arrangement of one
to six embossed points. Braille has been adapted to many languages
around the world.
(Maitreyee Boruah can be contacted at [email protected] )
cell: 09928341197
e-mail:
[email protected]
website:
http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:06:45 +0530
From: "piyush patel" <[email protected]>
Subject: [AI] louie braille documentary
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <004e01c974b2$77f9f380$0201a...@piush>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
kindly find this link:
good luck, piyush Patel://www.sendspace.com/file/uwsl8v
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:50:19 +0530
From: "firoz" <[email protected]>
Subject: [AI] off topic must read
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <a580c90d7e454034ac276ce59b7be...@pc>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Section 49-O of the Constitution
Did you know that there is a system in our constitution, as per the
1969 act, in section "49-O" that a person can go to the polling booth,
confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding
election officer that he doesn't want to vote anyone!
Yes such a feature is available, but obviously these seemingly
notorious leaders have never disclosed it. This is called "49-O".
Why should you go and say "I VOTE NOBODY"... because, in a ward, if a
candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward has received
"49-O" votes more than 123, then that polling will be cancelled and
will have to be re-polled. Not only that, but the candidature of the
contestants will be removed and they cannot contest the re-polling, since
people had already expressed their decision on them. This would bring fear
into parties and hence look for genuine candidates for their parties for
election. This would change the way, of our whole political system... it
is seemingly surprising why the election commission has not revealed such
a feature to the public....
Please spread this news to as many as you know...Seems to be a
wonderful weapon against corrupt parties in India... show your
power,expressing your desire not to vote for anybody, is even more
powerful than voting... so don't miss your chance. So either vote, or vote
not to vote (vote 49-O) and pass this info on...
"Please forward this mail to as many as possible, so that we, the
people of India, can really use this power to save our nation".
Use your vote right for a better INDIA.
--
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