Venue: Hotel Classic Avenue, Manjalikulam Road, Trivandrum Date: November 12 and 13, 2011. Hosted by: Chakshumathi, the empowerment and assistive technology centre for blind.
Programme for the Access India National Convention: DAY - 1 9:00 Registration 10:00 Invocation and lighting the lamp 10:15 Inauguration, welcome and housekeeping 10:30 Keynote address by Dr. Veeraraghavan, Director Vikram Sarabai Space Centre on Space Technology and Communication 10.50 Q&A 11:00 Promotion of study of science for the blind Jijesh A, Chakshumathi 11:20 Tea Break 11:40 Dr. Reshmi Pramod enlightens about her Ayurvedic practice and the popular Ayurvedic massage and announce 10 month professional course on Ayuervedic Massage for Visually Challenged persons by Chakshumathi. 12:00 Q & A 12:10 Present and future of assistive technology and accessibility in mainstream technology: PCs, smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, ebooks, Digital Television and rich internet applications. Part 1. 13:00 Lunch and networking 14:15 Present and future of assistive technology and accessibility in mainstream technology: PCs, smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, ebooks, Digital Television and rich internet applications. Part 2. 15:30 Demo of Accessibility apps for Android: Third eye technical voluntary group. 16:00 tea break 16:30 Interactive activities: a. Computer games by Barrier break b. Linux clinic by Insight C. Work place solutions by Enable India D. Accessible ATM system 20:00 Dinner Day 2 November 13 2011 9:30 Mr. Balaram, CTO of Chakshumathi Talks on Common accessibility issues and the role of government. 9:45 Dr. Sam Taraporevala enlightens on “Accessible ATM the Social Need, Prerequisites and the Current Reality”. 10:30 “Building Accessibility Into Existing Electronic Devices - A Case Study of the IFT Electronic Physiotherapy Machine – A Step Towards Social Inclusion“ by Prashant Naik. 11:00 Accessibility in windows 7, Office 2011 by Barrier Break 11:30 Tea break 11:50 Dr. Hema presents Localization efforts in TTS and OCR development. 12.00 Q&A on TTS and OCR 12:15 Perfecting OCR technology in Linux by Mr. Sathyasheelan 12.30 latest developments in Daisy by Mr. Dipendra Manocha 13:15 Lunch 14:00 Dealing with accessibility issues in online banking, web commerce, stock trading: Pranav Lal. 14:30: Innovative travel concept by Pranav lal 14:45: Presentation of Ultrasonic cane by IIT Delhi 15:00: Presentation of electronic cane by Insight 15:15 Open floor discussion on a. Use of cane b. Travel assistant C. Service animals d. GPS and other assistive mobility devices 15:30 Open house: Access India 16:00 High Tea and end of convention Chakshumathi also hosting Daisy Forum India meeting from November 14 to 15 at Trivandrum at the Dubai International Hotel. Those who wish to register for the Daisy Forum may contact helpdesk. About Chakshumathi: Sanskrit word “Chakshumathi” represent the Vedic educational science for blind. Chakshu means Eyes and Mathi means Wisdom. As denote by the name “Chakshumathi” or Intuitive eyes, this charitable trust is a dedicated publishing unit for visually impaired using Daisy technology and is the Daisy Resource Centre of Kerala. Our major aim is to build confidence on every blind person that they are also equally intelligent like the normal people with vision and no opportunity is scares for them too. In most cases blind people are blessed with abandoned amount of intelligence than a normal person and they can easily surpass a normal person on his IQ and EQ if they are able to access information like people with vision. Chakshumathi is a humble attempt to bridge the information gap for blind and people with reading difficulties. Chakshumathi started on June 24, 2011 and employed with 9 visually impaired staff. Other activities of Chakshumathi consists of one to one job oriented computer training, research in assisted mathematics for the visually impaired, designing and mobilizing technology based manufacturing projects for self employment and group manufacturing, Training programmes for Competitive based examination, evoking science enthusiasm within the Visually Impaired community, developing and advocating new job opportunities for the community, eye health and eye donation campaigns. Chakshumathi is the publisher of the first Daisy Malayalam fortnightly named “Chakshumathi”. It also produce Executive Knowledge Line Science magazine in English and available through our website www.chakshumathi.org Address: Chakshumathi, KRA 48, Kaithamukku Post of line, Trivandrum – 695024 Tel.: +91 471 3235484, Mobile: +91 9847060034, Kochi Centre: Chakshumathi, C/O. Nursing School, Lakshmi Hospital, Diwans Road, Kochi. Centre head: +91 94977791806 WWW.CHAKSHUMATHI.ORG Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
