Dear List members I am please to share an affirmative happening for empowering visually impaired staff at the Union Bank of India, one of the leading public sector banks. Union bank has come out with a circular with subject “inclusive CD for blind and partially sighted employees” for prospective union bank employees as well as for existing staff members. This CD is intended to issue the vital resources to visually impaired employees to discharge their duties at their place of posting. The CD will be handed over along with the welcome kit to prospective visually impaired employees under going induction training program. The circular has been issued by General Manager Personnel at central office Mumbai, and circulated through bank’s internal channel. Content of this CD is - - Finacle guide designed for visually challenged users. Basic knowledge for working on bank’s CBS Finacle with JAWS is provided. - Software folder has screen readers (Demo version of JAWS and full version of NVDA), Magnifier (Magic Demo for partially sighted) and TTS (Lekha for reading Hindi). In general Union bank does provide license JAWS but in the beginning for a new staff demo copy of JAWS or NVDA will be presented as it’s now officially available within bank’s network. - Tutorial contains specially designed training material for MS Office, Windows, and Internet.
Friends, this venture of persuasion has been under taken by one of our bank staff and a member of this list as well as a well known author and contributor for ‘Braille Samachar Patrika’, a Braille magazine. He is Arpit Jain, our Hindi Officer. This is Arpit’s unique initiative in the direction of empowering visually impaired employees of our bank. He has demonstrated as one of the change champion of the bank. Fortunately today Union Bank of India has good number of staff members who are persons with blindness and they themselves are solid resource persons of our community. They are working towards bringing accessibility and inclusion in the bank along with handling their job responsibilities. Hats off to Arpit for his accomplishment. Regards, Prashant Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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..
