Re: [AI] freedom scientific vedio intercept error
your computer install the vedeo drivers and freedom scientific vedio intercept programes install. regrad nanjibhai chavda. - Original Message - From: vinod babu vinodbkol...@gmail.com To: bs...@yahoogroups.com Cc: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:09 PM Subject: [AI] freedom scientific vedio intercept error dear sir/madam, I am Vinod from Kerala. I have a problam with JAWS. some time JAWS says freedom scientific vedio intercept error install vedio intercept and restart system. after that same problam remaining. also JAWS cursor does not work. how can I solve this? any one can help me? thank you. -- Vinod. B mobile 09809664484
Re: [AI] freedom scientific vedio intercept error
Don't know if suggested already, but download the video intercept file available in portable jaws download page, and re-install the video intercept driver. However, first its better to try uninstalling and re-installing Jaws. -Original Message- From: nanjibhai chavda Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 2:03 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] freedom scientific vedio intercept error your computer install the vedeo drivers and freedom scientific vedio intercept programes install. regrad nanjibhai chavda. - Original Message - From: vinod babu vinodbkol...@gmail.com To: bs...@yahoogroups.com Cc: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:09 PM Subject: [AI] freedom scientific vedio intercept error dear sir/madam, I am Vinod from Kerala. I have a problam with JAWS. some time JAWS says freedom scientific vedio intercept error install vedio intercept and restart system. after that same problam remaining. also JAWS cursor does not work. how can I solve this? any one can help me? thank you. -- Vinod. B mobile 09809664484
[AI] Fw: [VV] LPG GAS Expiry Date !!!
- Original Message - From: saravanan.ramadoss1 saravanan.ramado...@gmail.com To: Voice-vision l...@voicevision.in; sayeveryth...@yahoogroups.co.in Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 8:32 PM Subject: [VV] LPG GAS Expiry Date !!! Hello friends, Please share this important information to all your friends. If you already know this this means, excuse me for repeated posting. - Subject: FW: LPG GAS Expiry Date !!! This is certainly relevant in India and may even be the norm followed in other countries where gas cylinders are still used. Good information, Pls. share it. Have U ever heard about LPG gas cylinder's expiry date!! Do you know that there is an expiry date (physical life) for LPG cylinders? Expired Cylinders are not safe for use and may cause accidents. In this regard, please be cautious at the time of accepting any LPG cylinder from the vendor. Here is how we can check the expiry of LPG cylinders: On one of three side stems of the cylinder, the expiry date is coded alpha numerically as follows A or B or C or D and some two digit number following this e.g. D06. The alphabets stand for quarters - 1. A for March (First Qtr), 2. B for June (Second Qtr), 3. C for Sept (Third Qtr), 4. D for December (Fourth Qtr). The digits stand for the year till it is valid. Hence D06 would mean December qtr of 2006. Please Return Back the Cylinder that you get with a Expiry Date, they are prone to Leak and other Hazardous accidents ... The second example with D13 allows the cylinder to be in use until Dec 2013 . Kindly pass this to every one, - __ Please feel free to pass your comments, feedbacks new ideas to the below menntioned contact details. Email: saravanan.ramado...@gmail.com saravanan_2...@hotmail.com *** Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare -- Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller ## Adieu. Saravanan.R $ ___ Visit us on the web at http://www.voicevision.in Join us on Facebook by clicking on the link http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=674891933k=4XATP65XVT6G6BDAQJ24UWXPW6BAX54EVTFWoid=108322705877196 Or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/voicevision_in List mailing list l...@voicevision.in For list guidelines other subscription changes visit http://voicevision.in/mailman/listinfo/list_voicevision.in
Re: [AI] about net banking.
I and Vishnu are using SBI's netbanking since May 2009. It's well-accessible using JAWS and each transaction is secured by a high security password on registered mobile number. Best Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget while a pessimist forgets to laugh!!! -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of amarnath de Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 8:24 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about net banking. Hi all, though I have opened an account in State Bank Of India on October 2010 and applied for net banking, but did not got access to its net banking. The branch gave me an username and password but did not allow access to the page net banking for visually challenge and could not been able to access the facility till now. I talked with the head of net banking Mr. Agam Prakash Sharma, but my problem is yet to be solved. I have lodged a complain in their happy room but I experienced that, even they are not aware that, the visually challenged persons have such facility in the bank. they also told me that, the facility is in experimental stage. When I categorically told that, such facility is in existence, they assured me to help and I am waiting for it. So if anyone can help, I will be highly solicited. Thanks. Yours sincerely, Amarnath De. -- From: Sandeep Gautam sandeepgautam.n...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:04 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about netbanking. Dear, Though one website and phone number of SBI has been provided by some of our friend, here is something about SBI net banking facility: 1. If you have account with SbI, you can approach your branch to fill out the form and complete other formality to get facility of netbanking with them. 2. generally, by net banking, you can: a. check your account balance and status b. fund transfer c. paying your policy premium etc. d. apply for IPOs etc. many more tasks, you will know when you start using it. Sandeep G - Original Message - From: aliluhar aliluha...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:09 PM Subject: [AI] about netbanking. hello friends, i am back on this mailing list. because of my personal reasons i was away from the list. hope all the friends are keeping fine. today i want to know about netbanking. what are the benifits, how i can get netbanking fecility, where should i approach, is there any form which i have to fill up? my account is in state bank of india. so please share your valuble knowledge and help me in this matter. waiting for quick reply, yours sincerly aliluhar. email aliluha...@gmail.com mobile 09913211468 thanking you all in advance.
[AI] joining information
hai this is k srinivas i am a partially blind working in gout school as teacher my qualifications are m.a in politics and b.e.d. I am one of the secretary to the DWAB (Development and Welfare Association of the Blind) Andhra Pradesh. I am very happy to join the accessindia group, I was guided and provided proper information about the accessindia group by my friend mister gangadhar who is also a visually impaired person working as lecturer in history in a government degree college so I thank him for the help provided. as it is my first mail to accessindia if you find any mistakes please forgive me and give me proper guidance to become one of the listed members thank you all with regards k srinivas my mobile number is 09490589531.
Re: [AI] joining information
Hello sir u r most welcome to the list. The list is so lucky that knoledgeble friends like u r joining day by day. Please share your valuble knoledge with us. Thanks. - original message - Subject:[AI] joining information From: srinivas srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Date: 16/01/2011 10.09 am hai this is k srinivas i am a partially blind working in gout school as teacher my qualifications are m.a in politics and b.e.d. I am one of the secretary to the DWAB (Development and Welfare Association of the Blind) Andhra Pradesh. I am very happy to join the accessindia group, I was guided and provided proper information about the accessindia group by my friend mister gangadhar who is also a visually impaired person working as lecturer in history in a government degree college so I thank him for the help provided. as it is my first mail to accessindia if you find any mistakes please forgive me and give me proper guidance to become one of the listed members thank you all with regards k srinivas my mobile number is 09490589531.
Re: [AI] need an urgent info regarding phd restrictions
Hello Sir, A Government employ can pursue part time Ph.D. with no objection certificate from the employer from UGC recognised universities. Four years duration is permitted for this course extended by one more year in case of non completion of the course work. With best wishes, janardhana Naidu. On 1/14/11, raghuraman kalyanaraman thinkdontbl...@gmail.com wrote: friends, i urgently need to know u g c's approved modes to do phd. that is, can an employed person persue phd under the following modes: 1 partime phd parttime external or what are the other modes which are approved and recognised by u g c. please clarrify in detail also if anyone has any orders or circulars in this regard, do send it to my mail id thinkdontbl...@gmail.com all your help is highly appreciated awaiting your response -- cheers raghu
[AI] introduction
Hello Friends! I am Mohammad Yusuf and I am graduate. I live in Delhi and my hobbies are to play cricket and chess. I lost my eye sight when I was 15. then I went to Blind Relief Association and took admission in sixth class. I have also done one year stenno graphy course in English from AICB and one year computer course from NIVH. Now I have been working as a computer teacher in National Association for the Blind Faridabad Haryana State Branch. I am still looking for fine job because salary is not good here. I have joined this group to make friends and to solve computer related problems. I hope that you help me to understand many things. my mobile No. 08010663328 09268704236 thank you
[AI] Low Cost Accessible GPS Options
Hi friends,Here is an informative article regarding latest GPS systems,[the first one in a series of articles] which might interest many of you:-- Warm regards. Yogesh. Low Cost Accessible GPS Options - Part 1: Introduction written by Alena Roberts It used to be that you would have to stop and ask for directions if you got lost, but thanks to GPS systems this is no longer necessary. Unfortunately, main stream stand alone GPS devices are not accessible to the blind, and up until recently, accessible GPS options were too expensive for most blind people to purchase. With Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones featuring out-of-the-box accessibility, there are now multiple low cost accessible GPS applications available. For the next few weeks I will cover what I think are some of the best GPS options for both of these platforms. There are three applications on the iPhone that can be used either by themselves, or together to help the blind arrive at their destination. These include Navigon, Sendero LookAround, and Skobbler. Navigon is a full GPS solution. Its features include turn by turn navigation, virtual navigation of route, POI (Point of Interest) selection for destinations, and much more. Sendero LookAround helps the user learn their current location, their nearest cross street, nearest POI's, and compass direction. This application was also designed with the blind in mind. Finally, Skobbler is a turn by turn GPS option that uses an open source map instead of maps loaded on the phone. Although this application is free, it is missing many features present in the other two applications, but could still be useful in certain situations. Although accessibility on the Android platform is not as good as the iPhone, they are making some great progress. On Android phones there are two applications that the blind can use to help them navigate. WalkyTalky gives spoken walking directions, and intersection explorer allows you to virtually navigate before venturing out. Both of these are free in the Android Market. Next week I will go into more detail about the iPhone applications. Happy travels.
[AI] FW: corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative
From: rod_patric...@hotmail.com To: a_kumares...@yahoo.co.in; kanchanpamn...@gmail.com; sinhapanka...@gmail.com; santoshkumar.run...@gmail.com; amitadha...@gmail.com; arorakuld...@yahoo.co.in; aknair...@yahoo.co.uk; ram...@rediffmail.com; nap...@gmail.com; hbasavaraj1...@yahoo.co.in; chittaja...@hotmail.com; bineshpil...@rediffmail.com; advocacy.cbrfo...@gmail.com; chintan1...@yahoo.com; drhtdhola...@rediffmail.com; rambabu_...@yahoo.com; dharamrajan7...@gmail.com; devakiradhakris...@yahoo.com; gpar...@hpcl.co.in; hc_jaisw...@yahoo.co.in; dri.de...@hrln.org; mswr...@yahoo.com; jwjacob_1...@yahoo.co.in; jvra...@gmail.com; kr.i...@nic.co.in; muktake...@gmail.com; ket...@gmail.com; haripal1kha...@indiya.com; lvijayvarg...@yahoo.co.in; mallikashashika...@yahoo.co.in; maridas...@yahoo.com; mukeshbhati...@gmail.com; nab...@yahoo.in; neil_d'so...@castrol.com; isha...@gmail.com; para...@yahoo.com; rkgupta...@yahoo.co.in; ravishett...@yahoo.in; waghmarer...@yahoo.com; akanshaap...@gmail.com; sanjaybhati...@yahoo.in; sanjaykulkar...@gmail.com; suhasvkar...@hotmail.com; sbalachan...@gmail.com; sultana_khamb...@yahoo.com; sunil.gaon...@relianceada.com; say...@rediffmail.com; rvenu...@yahoo.com; umeshpura...@tmail.com; vivekka...@gmail.com Subject: corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:56:13 +0530 CSR for the ‘differently abled’ CB Bureau, New Delhi, January 14, 2011In the very beginning of the year, a news story in one of the leading dailies of the country talked about how one wedding matchmaking website was cashing in on the ‘ability matrimony’ platform. BharatMatrimony, as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, thought of connecting people with disabilities including physical impairment, mobility impairment, hemiplegia, spinal impairment, vision impairment, learning disability, quadriplegia and paraplegia. They offered the entire service – from registration to seeking the right match – for free. The idea was to get all people with special needs, and those who wanted to marry them, on the same platform. Interestingly, what makes this initiative special is not just the idea, but also the fact that the service is being provided for free and is a part of the CSR initiative of a dotcom/digital venture. Such CSR-oriented investment by a dotcom company in a country (with merely four per cent of the population using internet) where internet businesses are still at a nascent stage, is highly commendable. Another fact to be acknowledged is that the company has focused on the ‘disability’ cause, which – for unknown reasons – does not rank high on the CSR initiatives list of many companies and is under-shadowed by environment, education, or public health. NASSCOM initiatives for the disabled Another organization that talks about ‘total inclusion’ is NASSCOM Foundation (NF), the social development arm of NASSCOM, India’s premier information technology (IT) industry body. The organization is engaged in empowering and enabling persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the IT workforce. To mark World Disability Day on December 3, 2010, NASSCOM Foundation launched a series of activities all across India, starting with the release of a Document on Workplace Inclusivity listing five principles that enable and empower PwDs, at NASSCOM’s Diversity Inclusivity Summit 2010 held in Bangalore on November 22. ‘The government has a target to ensure that three per cent of the workforce are PwDs. NASSCOM, through its Accessibility Initiative, is pushing hard to ensure that IT companies create policies, ease physical access to workplaces, and use assistive technologies. Some IT companies are doing some groundbreaking work here. We, at NASSCOM Foundation, want to encourage this and have released a document containing the principles and best practices to employ persons with disability. We will also have job fairs and volunteering and career counselling workshops for persons with disabilities,’ Rita Soni, CEO of NASSCOM Foundation, had said during the release of the document. The organization did host a job fair for persons with disabilities on December 10, 2010, in New Delhi. The fair promoted employment not on the basis of compassion or reservation, but purely on their capabilities and their qualifications. On December 16, 2010, the foundation organized a volunteering session in Kolkata for the employees of NASSCOM member companies. The session took the volunteers through an experience at an NGO, in order to sensitize employees to the challenges faced by PwDs. NASSCOM Foundation also initiated the Accessibility Initiative in 2010. The initiative aims to create an industry platform to empower people with disabilities, using the collective strength of NASSCOM member companies. It has approached the issue through awareness building for employment, physical (barrier-free workplace) and web accessibility, and
[AI] FW: Press Release
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Re: [AI] Axe falls on totally blind in financial sector recruitment
Hi Ekinath, Nothing can stop you from writing the exam with a scribe availing the extra time. -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light On 1/16/11, ekinath ekinath ekin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Just 2 days back i faced the same. I appeared for the interview for Officer Grade B position for RBI in my college campus placements. After first 2 rounds of GD and Essay writing, very senior officials of RBI assumably from Services Board met me imformally and though appreciated my talent and qualification, regreted their inability to hier me. Well, later reasons were clairified by my placement committee is that i was never in the race as these positions were not reserved for visually challenged. Now, i am worried is that even if i clear all the tests ettc. form outside from centralised process i will still not be selected. On the other hand, it's very clearly mentioned in the add on the website 6 posts are reserved for HI and although VIs can apply but they won't be given concessions. I need to know will i be at least allowed to appear for the exam with an elligible scribe. Will i be given extra time and at the end of the even though fighting through general category will i be hired? Sir, i am going jto wirte a letter to RBI asking the same doubts in short by tommorw for the test on this 6th of Feb and would let know. Kindly share your knowledge or opinions on the same matter. I will be more than happy to contribute in the same issue. Regards On 11/25/10, Asudani, Rajesh rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in wrote: Friends What I had long apprehended has come to pass. Now, it seems totally blind would not get job even in financial sector. a corrigendum and a recently issued advertisement of IDBI and a notification of LIC clearly stipulate that only low vision candidates, or those visually impaired having impairment between 40 and 70% may apply. They cite government guidelines in their support. I am afraid list of identified jobs does not identify bank officers/clerks jobs for blind, but does so for Low vision. This is despite technology and all. So, the only recourse available is to compel the government immediately to identify these jobs for blind also. Anyway, identification is due in 2010. Don't know whether government would wait for new law which does away with identification altogether. Friends, come up with suggestions and activities to claim back our work. With thanks and regards I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. --Robert Frost (Rajesh Asudani) Assistant General Manager Reserve Bank of India Nagpur Cell: 9420397185 o: +91 712 2806846 R: 2591349 Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. 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 -- Innocence of Child is God Talking Student of JBIMS, batch 2011.
[AI] one law or multiple law for the disabled?
Dear Accessindians, I am forwarding a very well written note by Mr. Prasanna Kumar Pincha on the one law vs multiple laws for the disabled debate which is raging at present. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear friends I am enclosing herewith a concise note put together by me based on my personal understanding of the issue. The enclosed concise note is self-explanatory. If you so desire, please feel free to share this note with other friends of the sector as well. Best regards, Prasanna Kumar Pincha, One law Vs. Multiple laws This concise note contains some arguments and counter-arguments in respect of a raging debate on only-one-law theory versus another theory favouring one common law together with other need-based specific laws on disability. These arguments and counter-arguments which are based on my personal understanding of the issue are stated below: 1. Argument: There should be only one common law for all persons with disabilities; and, there should not be any specific law for persons belonging to any specific category of disabilities. Having more laws than one will adversely impact the unity of the movement of persons with disabilities. In fact, more laws than one for persons with disabilities will divide them and will eventually bring about fragmentation in their movement. Counter-argument: The above argument is utterly ridiculous. Division or split in any movement can not be attributed to the existence of a given number of laws for a certain group. Split or division in movements happen due to other reasons, such as, ideological differences, personality clashes, ETC. Can anybody, for example, argue with even the least measure of justification that the women's movement will disintegrate because there exist various legislations to protect and promote various aspects of their rights? Certainly not. The fact of the matter however, is that legislations on specific issues are reflective of the state's resolve to address those issues in a focused manner. This explains why we have specific legislations on prohibition of dowry, protection of women against domestic violence, equal pay for equal work for women, ETC. Besides, the Constitution of India also addresses the commonality around gender/sex-based discrimination as it includes sex amongst one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination vide Articles 15 and 16 which applies to all women in equal measure. All persons with disabilities across the entire spectrum of categories of disabilities do share certain commonalities. These commonalities, for example, are around issues of impairment-based discrimination. While constitutionally, there exist no explicit safeguards against discrimination for persons with disabilities, we do have a common law in the form of Persons with Disabilities Act covering various major categories of persons with disabilities; and, this law will now be replaced with an altogether new law which will be in consonance with the Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities(UNCRPD), and which will include and benefit all persons with disabilities. It goes without saying that we do have some specific and dedicated legislations on disability, such as, the National Trust Act, the Mental Health Act, and the RCI Act. While the National Trust Act and the Mental Health Act seek to address some very specific issues of persons belonging to certain specific categories of disabilities, The RCI Act imparts a statutory status to the Rehabilitation Council under a dedicated statute. Understandably, these dedicated legislations will also be either amended or replaced with new legislations so that they are in harmony with the UNCRPD. Since persons with some specific categories of disabilities are more marginalized and vulnerable compared to other persons with disabilities, existence of additional and specific and dedicated statute for such persons would rather strengthen the disabilities rights movement instead of weakening it as erroneously apprehended by some. We must remember here that such persons with disabilities will always remain covered under the common legislation. Clearly, therefore, the objection to having specific and dedicated statute has no merit whatsoever. Moreover, one must also not lose sight of the fact that there concurrently exist both common law and specific law in other areas as well. For example, while the Indian Penal Code is a substantive common law on crimes, nothing has prevented us from enacting any number of laws on specific crimes under dedicated statutes, such as, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, Prevention of Corruption Act, ETC. 2. Argument: Only one law will ensure single-window service to all persons with disabilities and will also cut down costs of implementation and monitoring. Counter-argument: This argument is inherently fallacious. Single-window service or
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[AI] querry about facebook
dear members please inform me about the use of facebook for vissually impaired. and proper control. answer is awaited
Re: [AI] about net banking.
hello, i am using net banking of sbi successfully with the browser internet explorer. however, with mazila firefox i am unable to get the log in page on the screen. it shows me the valid security certificate authentication and asks me to asure the valid certificate for onlinesbi.com assuming that this problem might be with the settings loaded for firefox on one machine, i tried to log in with the same browser on my other personal computer. but the same authentication was required. so i would like to know that what could be the solution for such problem? looking forward for your reply. thanks, On 1/16/11, Zujar zujarbri...@gmail.com wrote: I and Vishnu are using SBI's netbanking since May 2009. It's well-accessible using JAWS and each transaction is secured by a high security password on registered mobile number. Best Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget while a pessimist forgets to laugh!!! -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of amarnath de Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 8:24 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about net banking. Hi all, though I have opened an account in State Bank Of India on October 2010 and applied for net banking, but did not got access to its net banking. The branch gave me an username and password but did not allow access to the page net banking for visually challenge and could not been able to access the facility till now. I talked with the head of net banking Mr. Agam Prakash Sharma, but my problem is yet to be solved. I have lodged a complain in their happy room but I experienced that, even they are not aware that, the visually challenged persons have such facility in the bank. they also told me that, the facility is in experimental stage. When I categorically told that, such facility is in existence, they assured me to help and I am waiting for it. So if anyone can help, I will be highly solicited. Thanks. Yours sincerely, Amarnath De. -- From: Sandeep Gautam sandeepgautam.n...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:04 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about netbanking. Dear, Though one website and phone number of SBI has been provided by some of our friend, here is something about SBI net banking facility: 1. If you have account with SbI, you can approach your branch to fill out the form and complete other formality to get facility of netbanking with them. 2. generally, by net banking, you can: a. check your account balance and status b. fund transfer c. paying your policy premium etc. d. apply for IPOs etc. many more tasks, you will know when you start using it. Sandeep G - Original Message - From: aliluhar aliluha...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:09 PM Subject: [AI] about netbanking. hello friends, i am back on this mailing list. because of my personal reasons i was away from the list. hope all the friends are keeping fine. today i want to know about netbanking. what are the benifits, how i can get netbanking fecility, where should i approach, is there any form which i have to fill up? my account is in state bank of india. so please share your valuble knowledge and help me in this matter. waiting for quick reply, yours sincerly aliluhar. email aliluha...@gmail.com mobile 09913211468 thanking you all in advance. -- Regards, Mukesh jain Email: mukesh.jai...@gmail.com Skype: mukeshja Mob: 09977165123 Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller
Re: [AI] Query Regarding facebook
Hy Sohan the first two collumns are for the registered users to sign in so don't touch them just navigate in the home page of the facebook there you will find some thing named sign up just fill in all the form fealds and you are done On 1/16/11, Sohan Singh polite.s...@gmail.com wrote: hi experts, I want to know how can we join facebook? Please if anybody can give complete information. I was trying to sign up but there were two columns for account and password. What should i fill there? Please tell me in my email polite.s...@gmail.com Thanks with warm regards. Sohan. -- Ajay Minocha Mob : +91 - 7 8 2 7 1 8 8 4 5 5 E mail : ajayminocha2...@rediffmail.com ajaymanu...@gmail.com
Re: [AI] query regarding internet banking.
Hi Zuger like you i also use Icici netbanking. i have also password protected that file. further i have recorded on my digital recorder!!. At 06:35 AM 1/14/2011, you wrote: Yes! it's risky, so I've password protected it. Still if someone tweaks into it, he does not know the algorithm I've used to store the numbers - they do not correspond to alphabets as they appear in the worksheet. Suggest any other measures that I can take for protection coz I do not want to depend on sighted help for performing secure financial transactions. On 1/14/11, Surya Prakash Sharma surya.sharm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is it not risky to keep such confidential data in excel sheet? - Original Message - From: Zujar zujarbri...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [AI] query regarding internet banking. ICICI Bank is accessible. The only issue creeps up when you need to validate your debit card while performing an online transaction. There's a grid on the reverse of the debit card with a number in front of alphabets A to P. It asks you to enter numbers in front of three alphabets selected randomly for an extra level of security. I have noted this grid in an excel sheet with sighted help at once and keep the same handy while performing an online transaction. Can't say how accessible HDFC bank is. -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Surya Prakash Sharma Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:20 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] querry regarding internet banking. Hello accessindians, i want to open an account with ICICI BANK or HDFC bank with internet banking facility. my querry is: which website is more accessible with screen reader. with best regards, S. P. Sharma e-mail: surya.sharm...@gmail.com emailtosuryaprak...@rediffmail.com Landline: 0141-2341787 Skype: sps.jaipur -- Best Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget, whereas a pessimist forgets to laugh! with warm regards Mahendra Galani window's live ID mahendragal...@hotmail.com skype ID chintu3886 phone +4314943149 mobile +4369910366055, address Herbst strasse 101.16.1 Vienna Austria Europe -
Re: [AI] Engineering grads/students of Engineering courses
hi I am also an engineering graduate with BTech in Production engineering. thanks deepak singla On 1/14/11, Vamshi. G gvamsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Subramani sir, You should post this on Retina India e-groups also as there are a few people in the engineering field on that group. I know a few people who have done engineering and others who are still pursuing it. Also try to get into touch with Sagar Sodah who is doing engineering in Canada to get a comparison of the situations. Do write to me if you need the contact details of the persons in the field. -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light On 1/14/11, Kartik Sawhney sawhney.kar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sir, if this is for your next story, then I would want to put forth some vital inputs. Even now in India, despite a lot of success received from CBSE, there is a lot of insensitivity prevailing in the officials. For instance, premier institutes like IITs fail to understand that reasonable accomodations like alternate questions in lieu of the diagramatic questions that are impossible to interpret (especially those involving the concept of space) need to be provided. Yes, there are a lot of challenges, however people like Srikanth have gone ahead and done India proud too, he being the first blind international student at the prestigious MIT (though he too is facing certain practical difficulties, may be he could give a better take on that). Talking about the situation in India, let me put it this way, when I wrote to IIT Madras (JEE 2010 organisers) under RTI asking whether there are any reasonable accomodations, they replied: The paper is set in such a way that blind students do not require any accomodations. On the other hand, analysis of the IIT JEE 2010 question paper reveals that at least 30-40% of the question paper is visual in nature, and at least 15% of this is not possible to be described. After all, who can describe complecated free body diagrams in mechanics? Several people are working as successful engineers abroad. In fact, NFB, US has a STEM division that looks after the Science, technology, engineering and Mathematics needs of the visually challenged. You may get in more info from there. I just hope that things change in the near future, and India too can have VI professional engineers. You may write in for any more help. @Also some AI members have completed B.Tech. in CSE through lateral entry into the 2nd year of the course. Hope they will reply and share their opinions/experiences. Also, I would suggest that this goes on the list, so that everybody is made aware of this new field believed to be impossible for VI. Hope this helps. Regards, -Kartik On 1/14/11, Kanchan Pamnani kanchanpamn...@gmail.com wrote: Subramani, I assume that this is for your next story. Then you must bring out the fact that the visually impaired were not allowed to do science in the standard XII. Slowly we are getting there. Ask Sam or Kartik for the new CBSE circular and ask Sam for the HSC circular. Of course HSC is the board that conducts exams in Maharashtra. Therefore may not be relevant for your story. This is the plus. The minus is that there was a Engineer from Karnataka who had only one eye. He got stuck inbetween. Not disabled by the definition and therefore no reservation. The new law is going to add this category too. At present it is hopeless. in case you need this persons contact details ask Dr. Rajat. There are some studying Engineering and they had to go to court to get admission. They will reply to you directly. There is one bright spark who wants to do it and I am sure he will get back to you.Smile There are some who lost vision after studying and maybe working for a while.Had to change jobs, rehabilitate themselves and start a new life. Some have succeeded and some have fallen. The bottom line is computer engineering. When you finish send me your article. Kanchan - Original Message - From: Subramani L lsubramani.v...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:38 AM Subject: [AI] Engineering grads/students of Engineering courses Folks: Writing to the list after a long time. If any of you have a B.E. degree (in IT or IT related) or if you are pursuing engineering (with visual impairment), kindly write to me in private. Subramani -- Thanks Regards Deepak Kumar Singla Mobile: +91-81464 24200 Help Ever Hurt Never
Re: [AI] Any exemption from transfer for central government employees?
There is nothing as exemption from transfer. But VI or disabled employees' transfers are subject to many conditions. - Original Message - From: Vamshi. G gvamsh...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 7:48 PM Subject: [AI] Any exemption from transfer for central government employees? Hi friends, One of my friends wants to know if there are any circulars that talk about exemption from transfer for visually challenged central government employees. I have a circular issued by ministry of finance dated 15.2.1998. Are there any recent developments in this area? -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light
[AI] One law vs Code: both sides of the argument
Dear all, Considering that many of our members are very activily participating or watching the drafting of the new law, I am forwarding two documents for your consideration so that you get both sides of the argument. Below you wil find opinion of Justice A.P. Shah on the question of One law vs Code for persons with disabilities which advocates in favour of a Code. At the end is a note written by Mr. Prasanna Kumar Pincha expressing his views after reviewing opinion of Justice Shah. Mr. Pincha who is not a member of the list feels that all sides and shades of opinions should be posted and looks forward to comments on the substative content of his comments/observations. One law vs Code - Opinion by Justice A.P. Shah Opinion on the Pending Question posed in the Explanatory Note to the Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act and the Memorandum on the Disability Code Background Facts 1. The question posed to the Committee in the Explanatory Note to the Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act dated 20.11.2010 (the Pending Question) was as follows - The issue of the induction of the National Trust and the Rehabilitation Council as separate chapters could not be attempted primarily because there was no time left to undertake a coherent and systematic exercise. It may also be noted that as the length of the statute expanded we felt a constraint of space in even incorporating all the provisions of power and accountability in the chapter on the Disability Rights Authority. It may also be noted that all significant authorities in the country have dedicated legislations around them. In this view of the matter the Committee would need to consider whether it would wish to suggest the creation of One Disability Law Code and within which have legislations on: Disability Rights; the Disability Authority; the National Trust; and the Rehabilitation Council. Or whether it would also wish to induct the National Trust and the Rehabilitation Council into this legislation? 2. Subsequently the Memorandum on Disability Code (the Memorandum) reiterated that the DRA, National Trust and RCI should have their own separate legislations. The reasons given were as follows - (a) Lack of Time and Space (Para 1, Memorandum) (b)Coherent Operation and Efficient Implementation of the transitory measures in relation to the Mental Health Act (Para 3, Memorandum) (c) Efficient implementation and protection of interests of most marginalised (Paras 4, 6 Memorandum) 3. The Memorandum also explained the idea of a Disability Law Code in the following terms (Paras 5 and 6, Memorandum) - It is in the wake of these equally valid concerns that it was suggested that a Disability Code may be formulated which could be a legally accepted and efficient way of bringing convergence along with accommodating difference. The difference between a Code and multiple legislations in a field is that the Code has a common philosophy; common grammar and a concerted effort to ensure that each part fits into a cohesive whole. Thus for example there are number of legislations on children which occupy the field today but they do not make a Children Code because the cohesiveness of philosophy, grammar and the convergence between authorities is absent. The difference between a Code with multiple legislations and a single comprehensive legislation is that a Code with multiple legislations allows each area to obtain the detailed and dedicated attention it requires. The Companies Act; the Income Tax Act are examples of legislations which are comprehensive but whose very comprehensiveness becomes a barrier to their efficient implementation. A Code with multiple legislations makes it easier to undertake capacity building and awareness raising of the law and it ensures that the interests of the marginalized groups are not submerged in the bulk of a large legislation. Issue 4. The central issue which has arisen is thus whether the gamut of disabilities laws in the country should be embodied as - (a) one comprehensive statute incorporating the rights of disabled persons, the provisions for enforcement of such rights, and, the powers and responsibilities of the proposed implementing authorities, i.e. the DRA, the RCI, the National Trust (or their equivalent) under separate chapters/sections in the same legislation; or (b)a code of multiple legislations, each dealing with - the rights of disabled persons, the powers and duties of each relevant implementation authority including the DRA, RCI, the National Trust (or their equivalent), each under a separate legislation. Opinion 5. The Constitution of India evisages a legislative instrument only by way of a Bill which becomes an Act of Parliament. Although some legislations have been titled as Codes (for instance the Indian
