On Monday 04 September 2006 11:15 am, krishnakant Mane wrote: > > The reason i raise the cost bogey all the while is personal. I > > see two blind vendors on Dadar station selling bag lock chains.
> The Situation is quite different from your several years back > experience. I don't know how many years ago you are talking about. 96. > but due to my research work I have been all over India and today > the computer litrecy of blind persons is ironically highest in asia > and our country is amongst the highest in the world. Are u talking of "85% of the blind in India are computer literate" or of "4% of blind Indians are computer literate which is the highest in Asia" which means that everyone else has less than 4 % of their blind citizens computer literate. > secondly, not > just the skillsets the payment capacity of these people have also > n\\ increased. just looking at two lock chain venders we can't > conclude. secondly for a device as important as we are talking > about, let me inform the list that organisations like lions club do > a lot of donations to blind people in masses for life important > things. rather just 2 months back 150 seloron computers were > distributed with talking software (screen reader) to 150 blind > people by lions club. and I am giving only one such example. > today almost every college has more than 15 blind students on an > average. and at the pg level it is even more. > think about their basic skillsets? agreed. Could u point out some place on the web where i can find stats about India's visually handicapped? Looks like i am shooting in the dark. But apart from that u will be excluding ordinary people from the benfits of the system by mandating special devices. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
