Re: [AI] Request for the Details of Accessible web Designing tools:
Hi Srikanth, I haven't tried Publisher yet, but would be doing it this week. The shortcut keys you see on some sites are known as Access Keys. You may read this technique [1] from W3C Website. Please also see additional notes [2] given below. One thing that a web author should remember is that need to think a lot while offering an access key since that should not conflict with OS, browser or user agents like assistive technologies. Hope this helps, [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-accesskey [2] http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Srikanth Kanuri Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:32 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Request for the Details of Accessible web Designing tools: hi, thanks for the Info.. further what are the best accessible HTML Editors? is Publisher of 2007 or 2010 office versions accessible? further, i had come across few web pages of Myhome.in, Gmail Etc. giving shortcuts to links I.E Home, Inbox, Compose, how can we give shortcuts to Links in HTML Pages? Thanks in Advance, Srikanth On 1/3/12, li...@srinivasu.org li...@srinivasu.org wrote: Srikanth, Drupal is a good and accessible CMS. Also, you may use Joomla or word press with little changes. Also check Prashant's myehome.in. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2012, at 8:16 AM, lv1906 lissyvergh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Visit this website, this might be of help to you if you are searching for accessible web designing tools. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Thank you! Lissy Verghese On 1/3/12, Srikanth Kanuri srili...@gmail.com wrote: hi friends, please provide me with the details of some of the accessible web designing tools. i tried publisher 2010 today and to my fortune it is not accessible. anyone tested Dreamweaver CS 5? also please let me know whether any host provider's Control Panel is accessible having accessible templates? 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 -- http://www.epubbooks.com/books 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 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 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 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
[AI] regarding OOVOO
hi list, is anybody using software called oovoo? If yes, please share your experience with screen reader softwares and its accessibility. 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
Re: [AI] Fwd: [New post] Sound Sense
I believe books from this library would be available as soft copies either to be read out by screen readers or to be read as Braille by Braille displays? -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of pradeep banakar Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:05 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Fwd: [New post] Sound Sense -- Forwarded message -- From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide donotre...@wordpress.com Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:05:53 + Subject: [New post] Sound Sense To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com Post : Sound Sense URL: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/sound-sense/ Posted : January 4, 2012 at 16:35 Author : Nilesh Singit Tags : Blind, UNCRPD Categories : Accessibility, Advocacy, Disability, Disability Studies, Technology It was not easy for 25-year-old Garima Goyal to get three post-graduate degrees. But the coursework, deadlines and submissions were not the deterrent. The biggest challenge she faced was the lack of easy access to the prescribed texts in a format she could study after she started to lose her sight at 15. Most of my books were not available in audio formats due to copyright issues, she reveals. Moreover, college notes are often hand-written or photo-copied. So often, I had to get someone to type them out in a legible format, she adds. The investment in her education was immense. Books, notes and prescribed texts had to be scanned before putting them through a software that would convert them into audio. While many visually-impaired students like Goyal have struggled over the years to keep pace with their sighted classmates, the launch of an online library dedicated to higher education might make things easier. On January 4, the birthday of Louis Braille, who invented the six-dot language for the blind, the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) will launch the Online Braille Library at the Ali Yawar Jung Institute for the Hearing Handicapped in Bandra. With over 12,000 titles in 14 different languages, it is dedicated to help visually-impaired post-graduate students with prescribed texts from numerous colleges across India without any charge. By offering reading formats in Braille as well as audio, the library will cater to students in subjects ranging from mathematics and IT to history and literature. We launched the initiative on this very day in 2009, smiles Anuradha Mohit, director of NIVH. It took close to 18 months to convert all the texts into a Unicode font, which can be read in Braille as well as audio. The Online Braille Library will thus be a resource that allows students to read in Braille using an add-on computer equipment called Refreshable Braille Display, and in audio using voice software such as JAWS. Mohit, who is visually-challenged herself, explains the focus on texts for post-graduate studies. A book in any language becomes twice as large when it is translated into Braille. The logistical complications and the time involved often discourages them from pursuing degrees in higher education, she reveals. Storing them becomes a problem for individuals and university libraries, she adds. NIVH will begin the programme by training the staff and visually-impaired students from over 100 universities and libraries to use the portal. The users can enroll through the local libraries that are affiliated with NIVH. The online texts for the educated blind isn't the library's only unique selling point. Their section titled 'Common Catalogue' will have access to all the books - reference, study, fiction and children's books - available with Braille publishers and libraries across the country. This will make it easier for both students and parents to locate the required book and approach the right publisher for a copy, says Mohit. We want to make sure that every visually-impaired person in India has the opportunity to access Braille literature, she adds. According to Sushmeetha B Bubna, the founder-director of Voice Vision, an organisation that trains visually-impaired people to work on computers, this initiative will help people in cities as well as rural areas. People in cities may have their smartphones and laptop software to read, but Braille is very important to people in rural areas. This initiative will help not just the visually-impaired, but also the hearing-impaired, she says. Add a comment to this post: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/sound-sense/#respond -- WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=b5458b54eb34ff0ad5a8327369a2469cemail=pradeepsocialwork%40gmail.com Unsubscribe: http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=b5458b54eb34ff0ad5a8327369a2469cemail=pradeepsocialwork%40gmail.comb=Yfdqkdgar%25v%2BsujhvRJS7gCuGqiEtHHzY0NduNiU%5DPaqo%25K -- With Regards Pradeep T.S Email:
[AI] Fw: [New post] ATM devised for sightless customers
WordPress.com - Original Message - From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:49 PM Subject: [New post] ATM devised for sightless customers New post on Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide ATM devised for sightless customers by Nilesh Singit Bella Jaisinghani TNN Mumbai: A group of organizations working to make the city disabled-friendly would have made Louis Braille proud on his birth anniversary Wednesday. Having devised a range of software programmes and gadgets that could be used by visually handicapped people, they unveiled the collection at a special function in Bandra, held to mark his birthday. Among them was an automatic teller machine (ATM) that blind people can use to withdraw money. “We inaugurated an online Braille library that allows students to download files and print them to read. There is a full display of access technology like low-vision aids and teaching aids,” said Sam Taraporevala, head of sociology at the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The institute partnered the National Association of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, in this exhibition. NCR Corporation, which manufactures ATMs, demonstrated a machine that can be used by sightless customers. “It is a regular ATM fitted with auto-guidance software,” said Nagesh Nayak, professional services practice manager of NCR. “One can use a regular headphone and plug it into the jack to receive instructions and operate the numeric keypad on the machine.” Operative buttons like ‘Enter’ and ‘Cancel’ are embossed and codified. It would help to have Braille stickers affixed to the numeric keypad, though Nayak says that just about 10% sightless people read the script. “The raised dot on the number 5, which is a feature of most keypads, comes in handy to detect the rest of the numbers. People who go blind later in life are scarcely familiar with Braille, it is mostly the young who read it,” he said. As for security, should a sighted person catch a glimpse of the screen while a visually-challeged person is operating the machine, all he would see is a blank screen. Unfortunately, banks have been slow to take to this technology primarily for the initial investment it would entail. “However, the Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines to say that one-third of all the new ATMs must be accessible to the blind,” says Taraporevala. Times Of India Nilesh Singit | January 5, 2012 at 13:49 | Tags: Blind, UNCRPD | Categories: Accessibility, Advocacy, Disability, Disability Studies, Technology, WCAG | URL: http://wp.me/pyosb-jo CommentSee all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/atm-devised-for-sightless-customers/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com 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
[AI] Fw: [New post] Online library opened to address shortage of Braille books
WordPress.com - Original Message - From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: [New post] Online library opened to address shortage of Braille books New post on Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide Online library opened to address shortage of Braille books by Nilesh Singit On the occasion of Louie Braille’s 203rd birthday, also known as World Braille Day, a special function was organised by the National Institute of the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) and Xavier’s Research Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) at the Ali Yaver Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped in Bandra Reclamation. A major initiative designed to boost the education of the visually challenged, in the form of the Online Braille Library was launched. Union minister for social justice and empowerment, Mukul Wasnik was the chief guest. K Ramkrishna, general secretary of the National Association for the Blind, said, “There are 2,82,800 visually challenged people seeking education in the country. Out of that, only about 29,000 get a regular supply of Braille books,” he said. He added that even though India has a Braille printing capacity of 13 crore pages annually, only about 2 crore Braille pages get printed every year. The reason for this disparity, said Ramkrishna, was the extra cost of printing in Braille. “Because of the extra pages, special paper and cost of editing a page in Braille is six and a half times more expensive to print than a normal page.” After this sobering perspective, the website was formally launched. Dipendra Manocha, director of the NGO Sakham, spent some time going through the various features of the website which would alleviate some of the problems outlined by Ramkrishna. The website would grow to have 12,000 books in 13 different languages. Wasnik said that his own ministry had made its website accessible to the visually challenged and that the finance ministry had followed suit. “I’ve asked all other ministries to do the same, but it will take some time,” he said. DNA Published Date: Jan 05, 2012 Nilesh Singit | January 5, 2012 at 14:19 | Tags: Blind, UNCRPD | Categories: Accessibility, Advocacy, Disability, Disability Studies, Technology, WCAG | URL: http://wp.me/pyosb-jr CommentSee all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/online-library-opened-to-address-shortage-of-braille-books/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com 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
[AI] For the visually challenged, internet opens up a new world
For the visually challenged, internet opens up a new world L Subramani For several persons with vision challenge, the internet is the gateway to a brave new world. So, have they forgotten the raised dots, which Louis Braille -- whose 203rd birthday falls today, January 4 -- invented? Not really, but the computer has opened up umpteen opportunities which did not exist before. Every day, Vijayalakshmi (25) opens her personal computer with a reverence only accorded for ‘Thamburas’ and Harmoniums in her line of work. As the synthesized voice of her screen reader rambles on at the background, she locates the icon she wanted on the desktop and presses the ‘enter’ key hard on it. With a ‘wooop’ sound, the world of Voice Over IP (VOIP), better known amongst the ardent net users as ‘Skype’ opens up. Skype is worth the hype for several visually challenged persons like Vijayalakshmi, as it has become the lifeline –the way to use their expertise and earn a livelihood. “I have been doing this for more than three years,” says Vijayalakshmi, the Bangalore-based Carnatic musician who uses Skype to teach nearly a dozen students, most of whom are NRIs abroad. “I can’t imagine living without Skype, or, for that matter, without the internet. Not only it turns out to be a wonderful medium for us to expand our professional and business horizons, but it is also an amazing source of learning. YouTube, for instance, has so many videos (related to music) which I refer to learn. As visually challenged, we may not be accessing the content in any other method or format.” While students get in touch with her through Skype to receive their voice lessons, they transfer the fee to her account, sparing Vijayalakshmi the arduous trips outside home or standing in the long queues to deposit her earnings. Similarly, there are several thousands of persons with vision challenge who use the net to teach spoken English, creating web content and do medical transcription, which would have made Louis Braille proud. Ten years ago, internet was merely a tool for learning and exchanging emails. It had since evolved into a huge social medium that connects the blind with several professional groups and provide them the best opportunity to earn exposing only their advantages. Many of the visually challenged have formed professional and interest based groups in Facebook, while others have also taken advantage of Linkedin. “In the last few years, web accessibility has become an important feature for any website,” said Akhilesh Malani, who works as an accessibility head for an online start-up offering testing services. Several tools “We test for the website’s ability to function with several tools –like the screen reading software the blind use- to ensure they can be used by everyone without feeling disadvantaged in any way. Thanks to the internet, I, as a visually challenged person, am able to pursue the rather difficult testing job and continue to learn.” It came as a scare for many of them, when the news emerged in August that government is targeting social networking platforms (Facebook, twitter and Skype) to provide access to the user content. “(News of Skype being the target) came as a shock,” admits Maria Durrani, a visually challenged person from Mysore, who does combined shows for a few online radio stations. “We’re sure the government has several issues with social networking sites,” said Akhilesh. “things like terror threats, objectionable contents etc, were on the papers even a few days ago. We’ve nothing against the government taking action against genuine offenders, but at a time when the options of finding accessible websites (especially those developed for Indians) is pathetically less, banning open and free sites would spell doom for many of us who depend on them for survival and sanity.” Despite admitting the vital role internet has come to play in their lives, the visually challenged also acknowledge the special place Braille scripts have in their lives. “I know Braille, though I don’t use it much,” said Vijayalakshmi. “We’re still curious about the history of Braille, the way it was invented (when young Louis became blind and created the first raised dots from a similar set of military scripts used in French army). There’s always the inspiration in it, like how people look at the old typewriters and tele printers.” “It’s the equivalent of writing long hand,” Maria pointed out. “We may not use it much, but we still find it useful in situations where we can’t use computers or electronic gadgets.” Like many habits and practices that evolve with generational changes, use of Braille seem to have reduced amongst the younger generation of visually challenged who are used to working with computers and other electronic gadgets. “Braille has its most prolific users amongst the 30 and 40 somethings,” said Dr Rajdeep Manwani, a professor with Bagwan Mahaveer Jain College in the city. “Braille has certainly been adored by one and all
[AI] Seeking Feedback on Draft Guidelines For Conducting Examinations
Dear All It’s a well known need to everyone – the need for standardized, universal guidelines for use of writers/scribes/lab assistants for examinations. These efforts have been culminated over the years through various initiatives. A process to unify various efforts was made in 2006 with CCPD. The same needs to be followed through now. Hence this is a collective effort to partner with all concerned stakeholders to prepare a joint representation of common uniform guidelines that can be submitted to the government to be issued which can then become the base for all examination authorities and examinations. The Score Foundation (Eyeway) and Xavier’s Resource Center for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) in collaboration have put together the first draft for sharing with the community. You will find a researched draft of guidelines which have been built up on all the existing work done so far on either of the following links: http://www.eyeway.org/includes/advocacy http://www.xrcvc.org (visit Quick Link section on XRCVC Website’s home page) We are taking this opportunity to seek feedback on the same so as to incorporate the feedback into the draft. The draft as of now within point 5, 7, 10, 25, 26 and 27 has raised certain questions for which we would specially seek your feedback. If you could send in your feedback as an individual or an organization to scr...@eyeway.org latest by 15th January 2012 it would tremendously help us in creating these guidelines. This will be used to build up the final joint representation. If your organization would like sign the collective representation do inform us at scr...@eyeway.org by 15th January 2012. These guidelines have been prepared in collaboration by Eyeway and XRCVC building upon the work done by all organizations in the field over the years. This is only an effort to restart the process of putting together a joint representation and we would like to invite all to send us your valuable feedback. Looking forward to putting together a strong and effective guidelines in partnership with all. Thanking You Regards, Mr. George Abraham CEO, Score Foundation, Eyeway Dr. Sam Taraporevala Director, XRCVC Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) St. Xavier's College, 5, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 41 +91 22 22620661-5 (extn: 366) +91 22 22623298 (direct) +91 9967028769 (mobile) xr...@hotmail.com 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
[AI] Sensory desktop
Friends Here is an interesting piece from www.edge.orghttp://www.edge.org Don't know whether it is off topic or not, but I did correlate it with the idea of sensory substitution which may find application in devices like Brainport and functional utility of sensory input rather than its perceived value as absolute truth which is hardly intuitive: Sensory desktop Donald D. Hoffman http://edge.org/memberbio/donald_d_hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence... Our perceptions are neither true nor false. Instead, our perceptions of space and time and objects, the fragrance of a rose, the tartness of a lemon, are all a part of our sensory desktop, which functions much like a computer desktop. Graphical desktops for personal computers have existed for about three decades. Yet they are now such an integral part of daily life that we might easily overlook a useful concept that they embody. A graphical desktop is a guide to adaptive behavior. Computers are notoriously complex devices, more complex than most of us care to learn. The colors, shapes and locations of icons on a desktop shield us from the computer's complexity, and yet they allow us to harness its power by appropriately informing our behaviors, such as mouse movements and button clicks, that open, delete and otherwise manipulate files. In this way, a graphical desktop is a guide to adaptive behavior. Graphical desktops make it easier to grasp the idea that guiding adaptive behavior is different than reporting truth. A red icon on a desktop does not report the true color of the file it represents. Indeed, a file has no color. Instead, the red color guides adaptive behavior, perhaps by signaling the relative importance or recent updating of the file. The graphical desktop guides useful behavior, and hides what is true but not useful. The complex truth about the computer's logic gates and magnetic fields is, for the purposes of most users, of no use. Graphical desktops thus make it easier to grasp the nontrivial difference between utility and truth. Utility drives evolution by natural selection. Grasping the distinction between utility and truth is therefore critical to understanding a major force that shapes our bodies, minds and sensory experiences. Consider, for instance, facial attractiveness. When we glance at a face we get an immediate feeling of its attractiveness, a feeling that usually falls somewhere between hot and not. That feeling can inspire poetry, evoke disgust, or launch a thousand ships. It certainly influences dating and mating. Research in evolutionary psychology suggests that this feeling of attractiveness is a guide to adaptive behavior. The behavior is mating, and the initial feeling of attractiveness towards a person is an adaptive guide because it correlates with the likelihood that mating with that person will lead to successful offspring. Just as red does not report the true color of a file, so hotness does not report the true feeling of attractiveness of a face: Files have no intrinsic color, faces have no intrinsic feeling of attractiveness. The color of an icon is an artificial convention to represent aspects of the utility of a colorless file. The initial feeling of attractiveness is an artificial convention to represent mate utility. The phenomenon of synesthesia can help to understand the conventional nature of our sensory experiences. In many cases of synesthesia, a stimulus that is normally experienced in one way, say as a sound, is also automatically experienced in another way, say as a color. Someone with sound-color synesthesia sees colors and simple shapes whenever they hear a sound. The same sound always occurs with the same colors and shapes. Someone with taste-touch synesthesia feels touch sensations in their hands every time they taste something with their mouth. The same taste always occurs with the same feeling of touch in their hands. The particular connections between sound and color that one sound-color synesthete experiences typically differ from the connections experienced by another such synesthete. In this sense, the connections are an arbitrary convention. Now imagine a sound-color synesthete who no longer has sound experiences to acoustic stimuli, and instead has only their synesthetic color experiences. Then this synesthete would only experience as colors what the rest of us experience as sounds. In principle they could get all the acoustic information the rest of us get, only in a color format rather than a sound format. This leads to the concept of a sensory desktop. Our sensory experiences, such as vision, sound, taste and touch, can all be thought of as sensory desktops that have evolved to guide adaptive behavior, not to report objective truths. As a result, we should take our sensory experiences seriously. If something tastes putrid, we probably shouldn't eat it. If it sounds like a rattlesnake, we probably
[AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Dear ones can we have a discussion on hypnotism?do you all know about hypnotism?can blind be hypnotised?how?what is the method?every thing...but nicely...start...share...thank you and good luck Surendra Salgaonkar. mobile 09867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com 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
Re: [AI] regarding OOVOO
what is it use for? - Original Message - From: B Jyothi jyothi.mt...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:53 PM Subject: [AI] regarding OOVOO hi list, is anybody using software called oovoo? If yes, please share your experience with screen reader softwares and its accessibility. 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 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
Re: [AI] For the visually challenged, internet opens up a new world
Well said Sir. But we must not forget that for soeone to properly understand the things they do on the Internet basic literacy is need that could only coe through reading the text for yourself. I think Braille compliments the use of computers or vise versa. - Original Message - From: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in; jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 6:03 AM Subject: [AI] For the visually challenged, internet opens up a new world For the visually challenged, internet opens up a new world L Subramani For several persons with vision challenge, the internet is the gateway to a brave new world. So, have they forgotten the raised dots, which Louis Braille -- whose 203rd birthday falls today, January 4 -- invented? Not really, but the computer has opened up umpteen opportunities which did not exist before. Every day, Vijayalakshmi (25) opens her personal computer with a reverence only accorded for ‘Thamburas’ and Harmoniums in her line of work. As the synthesized voice of her screen reader rambles on at the background, she locates the icon she wanted on the desktop and presses the ‘enter’ key hard on it. With a ‘wooop’ sound, the world of Voice Over IP (VOIP), better known amongst the ardent net users as ‘Skype’ opens up. Skype is worth the hype for several visually challenged persons like Vijayalakshmi, as it has become the lifeline –the way to use their expertise and earn a livelihood. “I have been doing this for more than three years,” says Vijayalakshmi, the Bangalore-based Carnatic musician who uses Skype to teach nearly a dozen students, most of whom are NRIs abroad. “I can’t imagine living without Skype, or, for that matter, without the internet. Not only it turns out to be a wonderful medium for us to expand our professional and business horizons, but it is also an amazing source of learning. YouTube, for instance, has so many videos (related to music) which I refer to learn. As visually challenged, we may not be accessing the content in any other method or format.” While students get in touch with her through Skype to receive their voice lessons, they transfer the fee to her account, sparing Vijayalakshmi the arduous trips outside home or standing in the long queues to deposit her earnings. Similarly, there are several thousands of persons with vision challenge who use the net to teach spoken English, creating web content and do medical transcription, which would have made Louis Braille proud. Ten years ago, internet was merely a tool for learning and exchanging emails. It had since evolved into a huge social medium that connects the blind with several professional groups and provide them the best opportunity to earn exposing only their advantages. Many of the visually challenged have formed professional and interest based groups in Facebook, while others have also taken advantage of Linkedin. “In the last few years, web accessibility has become an important feature for any website,” said Akhilesh Malani, who works as an accessibility head for an online start-up offering testing services. Several tools “We test for the website’s ability to function with several tools –like the screen reading software the blind use- to ensure they can be used by everyone without feeling disadvantaged in any way. Thanks to the internet, I, as a visually challenged person, am able to pursue the rather difficult testing job and continue to learn.” It came as a scare for many of them, when the news emerged in August that government is targeting social networking platforms (Facebook, twitter and Skype) to provide access to the user content. “(News of Skype being the target) came as a shock,” admits Maria Durrani, a visually challenged person from Mysore, who does combined shows for a few online radio stations. “We’re sure the government has several issues with social networking sites,” said Akhilesh. “things like terror threats, objectionable contents etc, were on the papers even a few days ago. We’ve nothing against the government taking action against genuine offenders, but at a time when the options of finding accessible websites (especially those developed for Indians) is pathetically less, banning open and free sites would spell doom for many of us who depend on them for survival and sanity.” Despite admitting the vital role internet has come to play in their lives, the visually challenged also acknowledge the special place Braille scripts have in their lives. “I know Braille, though I don’t use it much,” said Vijayalakshmi. “We’re still curious about the history of Braille, the way it was invented (when young Louis became blind and created the first raised dots from a similar set of military scripts used in French army). There’s always the inspiration in it, like how people look at the old typewriters and tele printers.” “It’s the equivalent of writing long hand,”
[AI] Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease
CAMBRIDGE, England, January 5, 2012 Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease AP AP In this June 19, 2006 photo astrophysicist Stephen Hawking speaks at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Prof. Hawking turns 70 on January 8, 2012. British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved — how he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neurone disease in the U.K. On Sunday, Prof. Hawking will turn 70. “I don’t know of anyone who’s survived this long,” said Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London. He does not treat Prof. Hawking and described his longevity as “extraordinary”. “It is unusual for (motor neurone disease) patients to survive for decades, but not unheard of,” said Dr. Rup Tandan, a neurology professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Still, Dr. Tandan said many long-time survivors had ventilators to breathe for them which Prof. Hawking does not. Prof. Hawking first gained attention with his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, a simplified overview of the universe. It sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. His subsequent theories have revolutionised modern understanding of concepts like black holes and the Big Bang theory of how the universe began. To mark his birthday on Sunday, Cambridge University is holding a public symposium on “The State of the Universe,” featuring talks from 27 leading scientists, including Prof. Hawking himself. For 30 years, he held a mathematics post at the university previously held by Sir Isaac Newton. Prof. Hawking retired from that position in 2009 and is now director of research at the university’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. Prof. Hawking achieved all that despite being nearly entirely paralysed and in a wheelchair since 1970. He now communicates only by twitching his right cheek. Since catching pneumonia in 1985, Prof. Hawking has needed around-the-clock care and relies on a computer and voice synthesiser to speak. A tiny infrared sensor sits on his glasses, hooked up to a computer. The sensor detects Prof. Hawking’s cheek pulses, which select words displayed on a computer screen. The chosen words are then spoken by the voice synthesiser. It can take up to 10 minutes for Prof. Hawking to formulate a single sentence. “The only trouble is (the voice synthesiser) gives me an American accent,” the Briton wrote on his website. It took Prof. Hawking four years to write his last book, The Grand Design, missing his publisher’s original deadline. Prof. Hawking declined requests from the AP for an interview, but his personal assistant spoke to The Associated Press. Judith Croasdell, Prof. Hawking’s personal assistant, described her boss as remarkably patient. “The way he communicates can seem frustratingly slow to most people but he doesn’t let that impede his thinking,” she said. After a brief hospital stay, Prof. Hawking told her that he spent the time thinking about black holes. Prof. Hawking typically comes into the office after a big breakfast and reading the news, Ms. Croasdell said. “He’s not an early morning person, but he does stay quite late,” until about 7 or 8 in the evening, she said. Prof. Hawking’s rooftop university office is crammed full of memorabilia: family photos, a miniature NASA shuttle, and a signed picture of himself with President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. On top of physics books sits a disability access guide for the university. Prof. Hawking’s fame has led to guest appearances on some of his favourite television shows including The Simpsons and Star Trek. His animated likeness from The Simpsons has even been turned into an action figure one of which sits proudly on his office desk. There’s also a Homer Simpson clock that Prof. Hawking is known to glare at when visitors are late for an appointment. “He’s a big ham, he loves the spotlight,” said Kitty Ferguson, who’s written two biographies of the physicist. She said he has a wry sense of humour and has programmed his computer to respond to random encounters with people who ask if he’s Stephen Hawking. “No, but I’m often mistaken for that man,” his voice synthesiser deadpans. Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks motor neurones, cells that control the muscles. Patients typically suffer muscle weakness and wasting, become paralysed and have problems talking, swallowing and breathing. Only about 10 per cent of patients live longer than a decade. People who are stricken at a young age, as Prof. Hawking was, generally have a better chance of surviving longer. Most people are diagnosed between 50 and 70. Life expectancy generally ranges from
[AI] What is the eye glases
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[AI] Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease
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[AI] preparing daisy documents?
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Re: [AI] AccessIndia Digest, Vol 58, Issue 35
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Re: [AI] regarding OOVOO
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Re: [AI] Fw: [New post] ATM devised for sightless customers
On 1/5/12, Pradeep_banakar pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com wrote: WordPress.com - Original Message - From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:49 PM Subject: [New post] ATM devised for sightless customers New post on Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide ATM devised for sightless customers by Nilesh Singit Bella Jaisinghani TNN Mumbai: A group of organizations working to make the city disabled-friendly would have made Louis Braille proud on his birth anniversary Wednesday. Having devised a range of software programmes and gadgets that could be used by visually handicapped people, they unveiled the collection at a special function in Bandra, held to mark his birthday. Among them was an automatic teller machine (ATM) that blind people can use to withdraw money. “We inaugurated an online Braille library that allows students to download files and print them to read. There is a full display of access technology like low-vision aids and teaching aids,” said Sam Taraporevala, head of sociology at the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The institute partnered the National Association of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, in this exhibition. NCR Corporation, which manufactures ATMs, demonstrated a machine that can be used by sightless customers. “It is a regular ATM fitted with auto-guidance software,” said Nagesh Nayak, professional services practice manager of NCR. “One can use a regular headphone and plug it into the jack to receive instructions and operate the numeric keypad on the machine.” Operative buttons like ‘Enter’ and ‘Cancel’ are embossed and codified. It would help to have Braille stickers affixed to the numeric keypad, though Nayak says that just about 10% sightless people read the script. “The raised dot on the number 5, which is a feature of most keypads, comes in handy to detect the rest of the numbers. People who go blind later in life are scarcely familiar with Braille, it is mostly the young who read it,” he said. As for security, should a sighted person catch a glimpse of the screen while a visually-challeged person is operating the machine, all he would see is a blank screen. Unfortunately, banks have been slow to take to this technology primarily for the initial investment it would entail. “However, the Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines to say that one-third of all the new ATMs must be accessible to the blind,” says Taraporevala. Times Of India Nilesh Singit | January 5, 2012 at 13:49 | Tags: Blind, UNCRPD | Categories: Accessibility, Advocacy, Disability, Disability Studies, Technology, WCAG | URL: http://wp.me/pyosb-jo CommentSee all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/atm-devised-for-sightless-customers/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com 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 dear friends,i am using this a t m already.it is drashti card of s b i which is specially for v.i.persons.it is very easy and user friendly.for this talking a.t.m. first you have to get that drashti card. 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
[AI] how to give a password to the folder without using any softwares in window's7?
Hello friends please guide Me how to set password to the folder without any software like folder lock in window's7? any assistance would be appreciated. thanks and warm regards. -- You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see. Vanessa Williams 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
Re: [AI] how to give a password to the folder without using any softwares in window's7?
Hello! Select the folder you wish to give password, press application key. If you travel through the menus using down arrow, you will see My WinLocker submenu. From there, select Encrypt file, press enter there and follow the instructions. Thanking you, Lissy Verghese Kindly contact me for further assistance. On 1/5/12, Minar Singh singhmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends please guide Me how to set password to the folder without any software like folder lock in window's7? any assistance would be appreciated. thanks and warm regards. -- You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see. Vanessa Williams 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 -- http://www.epubbooks.com/books 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
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
i think this kind of topics are not allowed on the list. rest is up to our moderator. thanks, mukesh. On 1/5/12, Surendra Salgaonkar? salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com wrote: Dear ones can we have a discussion on hypnotism?do you all know about hypnotism?can blind be hypnotised?how?what is the method?every thing...but nicely...start...share...thank you and good luck Surendra Salgaonkar. mobile 09867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com 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 -- 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 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
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Hello Surendra and list members, Indeed an interesting and intriguing topic of discussion. Can the blind be hypnotised?? What is hypnosis? It has been said that If waking is white, and sleep is black, then hypnosis is gray. Hypnosis is an ordinary, natural state of consciousness, that we move in and out of, every day. Think of making your way home and not noticing the last few blocks? How about losing track of time and place while caught up in a great novel? And what about, on a day off, that feeling when you wake at the normal work time, and realizing that you don't have to be anywhere, you fall back in the bedclothes and just feel a wonderful, dreamy feelingnot completely awake, but not asleep either. That state is hypnosis. According to me yes, a blind person can be hypnotized. But the method of hypnosis is entirely different from the ones adapted to the sighted. In my admittedly limited experience with hypnotism mainly from TV shows and comicbooks I think the main trait needed in the hypnosis process is an ability, to shut out all outside distractions. One way for the mesmerizer to do that is to use a visual point in which to have his subject invest all his or her concentration on. I don't see why a repetitive sound couldn't do the same thing. Both would be done while the hypnotist is suggesting tiredness to the subject. I think that a blind person who wanted it to work and was able to trust the hypnotist AND was able to mentally exclude their surroundings could be hypnotised. But in no circumstance can any person be hypnotized against their will unless someone can practically prove me wrong here. people who have certain types or degrees of brain damage, may not be hypnotizable, also people who are psychotic, those on heavy drugs or alcohol, people with extremely low IQs, and as far as we know, the only other people who can not be hypnotized are those who do not want to be hypnotized. People who do not fit into those categories are those who can normally enter the hypnotic state. Mujtaba Merchant Bangalore, India 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
Re: [AI] preparing daisy documents?
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[AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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
Re: [AI] how to give a password to the folder without using any softwares in window's7?
Is it possible in all versions of win 7? On 1/5/12, lv1906 lissyvergh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Select the folder you wish to give password, press application key. If you travel through the menus using down arrow, you will see My WinLocker submenu. From there, select Encrypt file, press enter there and follow the instructions. Thanking you, Lissy Verghese Kindly contact me for further assistance. On 1/5/12, Minar Singh singhmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends please guide Me how to set password to the folder without any software like folder lock in window's7? any assistance would be appreciated. thanks and warm regards. -- You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see. Vanessa Williams 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 -- http://www.epubbooks.com/books 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi, its better idea to give ur exams if u are smart enough in typing on the keyboard. I am also planning to write my exams on computer in my next semester. I think that they will provide their own computer because if they allow u to use your own laptop then the apprehension of cheating will be in their mind even if u do honestly!. But what I found that while dictating the answer the state of mind is much concentrated rather than typing on the keyboard. Typing distracts the mind and one may loose his/her concentration. But I will do hard work upon maintaining concentration while typing. Another apprehension is of some mishapp, suppose something bad happened with the computer or you by mistake loose the written answer! or any other technical faliour to the machine? I think LL.B exams can be given in better way by writing himself. On 1/5/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi, Yeah, I have so far chosen to give my exams with a writer primarily because of the reasons that you mentioned. However, some people do manage to successfully deal with all these problems and are able to give their exams on the computer. So, I thought that I should also consider that option. I also read somewhere that one is allowed to use a writer of a higher grade if the writer is in another stream. So, does this rule apply to all universities/boards? On 06/01/2012, Shona Man shonam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, its better idea to give ur exams if u are smart enough in typing on the keyboard. I am also planning to write my exams on computer in my next semester. I think that they will provide their own computer because if they allow u to use your own laptop then the apprehension of cheating will be in their mind even if u do honestly!. But what I found that while dictating the answer the state of mind is much concentrated rather than typing on the keyboard. Typing distracts the mind and one may loose his/her concentration. But I will do hard work upon maintaining concentration while typing. Another apprehension is of some mishapp, suppose something bad happened with the computer or you by mistake loose the written answer! or any other technical faliour to the machine? I think LL.B exams can be given in better way by writing himself. On 1/5/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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 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
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Hi friends! Pasting below some facts about hypnotism. Facts you should know about hypnosis and hypnotherapy The information that follows was provided by Dr. Robert G. Dean who has a Ph.D. in clinical hypnotherapy and is certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy as a Hypnotherapist, and certified by the Hypnotists Union, Local 472 (OPEIU, AFL/CIO) Board of Examiners as a Master Hypnotist and Certified Union Hypnotherapist. Now for the facts: There are many misconceptions and superstitious beliefs regarding hypnosis. Whenever hypnosis is used in a clinical application or for entertainment, it attracts attention. The result is a commentary from two different groups of people. The first group of people are professionally knowledgeable about human behavior (psychologists, hypnotherapists, counseling therapists, and mental health care providers). The second group of people are those who are ignorant and mislead by the belief system of unknowing, misguided and superstitious people. There are several schools of thought by clinicians as to what hypnosis is and its appropriate application for therapy purposes (hypnotherapy). However, most all clinicians trained in behavior modification science and/or the study of human behavior (psychology) have agreed that the phenomenon of hypnosis is one or more of the following descriptions: Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. When I say an altered state of mind, the mind set is altered similar to how a day dream or nocturnal dream alters the state of ones mind when they are day dreaming or dreaming while asleep. To prove this, consider the time when you watched a scene in a movie which was very sad. You felt the emotion of sadness. Tears came to your eyes. Why did you feel so sad that it caused tears to form in your eyes? Let's examine that. You simply were watching a movie. The scene in the movie was not real. It was acted out by an actor. Nevertheless, you felt sad and wept while watching the scene. What happened is the implied suggestions of sadness in the movie scene bypassed your conscious mind and entered your subconscious mind which created an altered state of consciousness. While in this altered state of consciousness, which we call hypnosis, the suggestion of sadness (portrayed and implied by the actor) was accepted by your subconscious mind, which in turn caused you to feel sad and tears to form in your eyes. What really happened is you entered a light state of hypnosis, or put in different words, an altered state of mind. From the foregoing example we can see that you have two minds. You have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind (sometimes called the unconscious mind). The conscious mind functions with the use of logic. It concludes that 2+2 = 4. Your subconscious mind does not always think logically. It sees 2+2 equals whatever it desires to create, believe, is self-suggested, or suggested by the therapist. When you were watching the movie, you entered an altered state of mind which is called hypnosis. The scene in the movie caused a temporary shut down of the conscious mind's logical analysis. As you progressed more deeply into the movie's plot, it slowly caused your conscious mind to become oblivious of the fact you were watching an artificially produced image (a movie). At that point, all the information you were taking in from the movie (including the sad scene) bypassed your conscious mind (which does critical analysis) and went directly to your subconscious mind. In turn, your subconscious mind illogically responded to the sad scene and reacted to it as if it were real. Therefore, you felt sad, and tears came to your eyes. It's obvious that the subconscious mind is capable of responding to direct and implied suggestions (like those in a movie scene or that are given by a hypnotist). It doesn't matter if the suggestions are true or false. The subconscious mind responds to acceptable suggestions as if they are real. This is how a woman can be hypnotized to deliver her baby without feeling pain, a hypnotized man can have a root canal without feeling pain, or a well-made movie can hypnotically evoke emotions of sadness, excitement, anger or laughter from its viewer. Fortunately, one's free agency cannot be overruled merely by suggestion or hypnosis. For instance, when you experience a sad movie which makes you sad and weep, you are watching the movie with your permission. You had a mind set (an expectation) that you were going to watch the movie and be entertained which included the experience of the emotions generated by the story, through the actors. Therefore, if the movie is a comedy, you fully expected it to amuse you, and make you laugh. If the movie is a horror story, you expected it to frighten you. If the movie was sad, you expected it to evoke feelings of sadness within you. Therefore, one's mind set or level of expectation is a mandatory prelude to achieving an altered state of mind (which is hypnosis). Because of this fact, nobody
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi Rahul, I have taken exams using Jaws in b-school. I have done both, use my own machine and install jaws on a professor's computer. Finishing the exam is no problem. You can read the question at your own speed and write as fast as you like. Humans are quite slow. If I were you, I would set the word processor in which I am writing the exam to save the document every 2 minutes. That way, you only lose 2 minutes worth of work if the worse happens and you need to reboot. If you need to take an exam on someone else's computer, familiarize yourself with that computer's keyboard before you start the exam. This way, you can avoid situations like accidently hitting the sleep button. Pranav 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
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Dear one,thanks for your wonderful articul.it is highly appreciable. Surendra Salgaonkar. mobile 09867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com -Original message- From: lv1906 Sent: 06.01.2012, 3:39 am To: Mujtaba Merchant; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism. Hi friends! Pasting below some facts about hypnotism. Facts you should know about hypnosis and hypnotherapy The information that follows was provided by Dr. Robert G. Dean who has a Ph.D. in clinical hypnotherapy and is certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy as a Hypnotherapist, and certified by the Hypnotists Union, Local 472 (OPEIU, AFL/CIO) Board of Examiners as a Master Hypnotist and Certified Union Hypnotherapist. Now for the facts: There are many misconceptions and superstitious beliefs regarding hypnosis. Whenever hypnosis is used in a clinical application or for entertainment, it attracts attention. The result is a commentary from two different groups of people. The first group of people are professionally knowledgeable about human behavior (psychologists, hypnotherapists, counseling therapists, and mental health care providers). The second group of people are those who are ignorant and mislead by the belief system of unknowing, misguided and superstitious people. There are several schools of thought by clinicians as to what hypnosis is and its appropriate application for therapy purposes (hypnotherapy). However, most all clinicians trained in behavior modification science and/or the study of human behavior (psychology) have agreed that the phenomenon of hypnosis is one or more of the following descriptions: Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. When I say an altered state of mind, the mind set is altered similar to how a day dream or nocturnal dream alters the state of ones mind when they are day dreaming or dreaming while asleep. To prove this, consider the time when you watched a scene in a movie which was very sad. You felt the emotion of sadness. Tears came to your eyes. Why did you feel so sad that it caused tears to form in your eyes? Let's examine that. You simply were watching a movie. The scene in the movie was not real. It was acted out by an actor. Nevertheless, you felt sad and wept while watching the scene. What happened is the implied suggestions of sadness in the movie scene bypassed your conscious mind and entered your subconscious mind which created an altered state of consciousness. While in this altered state of consciousness, which we call hypnosis, the suggestion of sadness (portrayed and implied by the actor) was accepted by your subconscious mind, which in turn caused you to feel sad and tears to form in your eyes. What really happened is you entered a light state of hypnosis, or put in different words, an altered state of mind. From the foregoing example we can see that you have two minds. You have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind (sometimes called the unconscious mind). The conscious mind functions with the use of logic. It concludes that 2+2 = 4. Your subconscious mind does not always think logically. It sees 2+2 equals whatever it desires to create, believe, is self-suggested, or suggested by the therapist. When you were watching the movie, you entered an altered state of mind which is called hypnosis. The scene in the movie caused a temporary shut down of the conscious mind's logical analysis. As you progressed more deeply into the movie's plot, it slowly caused your conscious mind to become oblivious of the fact you were watching an artificially produced image (a movie). At that point, all the information you were taking in from the movie (including the sad scene) bypassed your conscious mind (which does critical analysis) and went directly to your subconscious mind. In turn, your subconscious mind illogically responded to the sad scene and reacted to it as if it were real. Therefore, you felt sad, and tears came to your eyes. It's obvious that the subconscious mind is capable of responding to direct and implied suggestions (like those in a movie scene or that are given by a hypnotist). It doesn't matter if the suggestions are true or false. The subconscious mind responds to acceptable suggestions as if they are real. This is how a woman can be hypnotized to deliver her baby without feeling pain, a hypnotized man can have a root canal without feeling pain, or a well-made movie can hypnotically evoke emotions of sadness, excitement, anger or laughter from its viewer. Fortunately, one's free agency cannot be overruled merely by suggestion or hypnosis. For instance, when you experience a sad movie which makes you sad and weep, you are watching the movie with your permission. You had a mind set (an expectation) that you were going to watch the movie and be entertained which included the experience of the emotions generated by the story, through the actors. Therefore, if the movie is a
[AI] Centre for disability studies inaugurated in Assam
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nilesh Singit's Blog: Disability News Wolrdwide donotre...@wordpress.com Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:38:01 + Subject: [New post] Centre for disability studies inaugurated in Assam To: pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com Post : Centre for disability studies inaugurated in Assam URL: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/centre-for-disability-studies-inaugurated-in-assam/ Posted : January 6, 2012 at 00:07 Author : Nilesh Singit Tags : UNCRPD Categories : Disability, Disability Studies, Education GUWAHATI: The Gauhati University, in collaboration with NTPC Limited, started an information communication training centre (ITC) at the department of disability study on Wednesday. The aim behind this training centre is to encourage students with disability to pursue higher education in the field of science and technology. Power minister Pradyut Bordoloi, who inaugurated the centre, said, It is really a memorable day as such a training centre would definitely help differently abled students to pursue higher education in science and technology. The centre would have computers with several assisted devices and software to enable visually challenged students to use computers. At present, a course on computer literacy and a foundation course in science and technology have been introduced and about 20 students have enrolled for the course. OK Medhi, vice chancellor of GU, said, There is no scope for higher education for the people with disabilities and their education is confined till school level only. So, we wanted to provide them scope to pursue science and technology. Right now, we have introduced two courses. But in the coming years, we plan to diversify our courses and a PhD in science for disabled students is also on the anvil. As of now, we are taking one step at a time. Kishore Mohan Bhattacharyya, the head of the department of disability studies, said, The NTPC has indeed done a great job and we hope that the students would be able to have proper exposure to science and technology. Chitrani Medhi, course co-ordinator of NTPC foundation, said, One of the most challenging work for the disabled is to learn how to use computers, science and technology. So, this centre would help them in learning new technology. Times of India Add a comment to this post: http://nsingit.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/centre-for-disability-studies-inaugurated-in-assam/#respond -- WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=b5458b54eb34ff0ad5a8327369a2469cemail=pradeepsocialwork%40gmail.com Unsubscribe: http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=b5458b54eb34ff0ad5a8327369a2469cemail=pradeepsocialwork%40gmail.comb=LdV.%2F3%2C%2F9d8WeGCGOgXTP_-JaHLX%2C17oMpbyFyFTY4br%3FEN2 -- With Regards Pradeep T.S Email: pradeep_bana...@rediffmail.com Mobile: 9845925188 Skype: pradeepsocialwork 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
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Just provided the information requested. No intention to go beyond the moderator's decision or anything as such. Thanking you, Lissy Verghese On 1/6/12, Surendra Salgaonkar? salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com wrote: Dear one,thanks for your wonderful articul.it is highly appreciable. Surendra Salgaonkar. mobile 09867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com -Original message- From: lv1906 Sent: 06.01.2012, 3:39 am To: Mujtaba Merchant; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism. Hi friends! Pasting below some facts about hypnotism. Facts you should know about hypnosis and hypnotherapy The information that follows was provided by Dr. Robert G. Dean who has a Ph.D. in clinical hypnotherapy and is certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy as a Hypnotherapist, and certified by the Hypnotists Union, Local 472 (OPEIU, AFL/CIO) Board of Examiners as a Master Hypnotist and Certified Union Hypnotherapist. Now for the facts: There are many misconceptions and superstitious beliefs regarding hypnosis. Whenever hypnosis is used in a clinical application or for entertainment, it attracts attention. The result is a commentary from two different groups of people. The first group of people are professionally knowledgeable about human behavior (psychologists, hypnotherapists, counseling therapists, and mental health care providers). The second group of people are those who are ignorant and mislead by the belief system of unknowing, misguided and superstitious people. There are several schools of thought by clinicians as to what hypnosis is and its appropriate application for therapy purposes (hypnotherapy). However, most all clinicians trained in behavior modification science and/or the study of human behavior (psychology) have agreed that the phenomenon of hypnosis is one or more of the following descriptions: Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. When I say an altered state of mind, the mind set is altered similar to how a day dream or nocturnal dream alters the state of ones mind when they are day dreaming or dreaming while asleep. To prove this, consider the time when you watched a scene in a movie which was very sad. You felt the emotion of sadness. Tears came to your eyes. Why did you feel so sad that it caused tears to form in your eyes? Let's examine that. You simply were watching a movie. The scene in the movie was not real. It was acted out by an actor. Nevertheless, you felt sad and wept while watching the scene. What happened is the implied suggestions of sadness in the movie scene bypassed your conscious mind and entered your subconscious mind which created an altered state of consciousness. While in this altered state of consciousness, which we call hypnosis, the suggestion of sadness (portrayed and implied by the actor) was accepted by your subconscious mind, which in turn caused you to feel sad and tears to form in your eyes. What really happened is you entered a light state of hypnosis, or put in different words, an altered state of mind. From the foregoing example we can see that you have two minds. You have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind (sometimes called the unconscious mind). The conscious mind functions with the use of logic. It concludes that 2+2 = 4. Your subconscious mind does not always think logically. It sees 2+2 equals whatever it desires to create, believe, is self-suggested, or suggested by the therapist. When you were watching the movie, you entered an altered state of mind which is called hypnosis. The scene in the movie caused a temporary shut down of the conscious mind's logical analysis. As you progressed more deeply into the movie's plot, it slowly caused your conscious mind to become oblivious of the fact you were watching an artificially produced image (a movie). At that point, all the information you were taking in from the movie (including the sad scene) bypassed your conscious mind (which does critical analysis) and went directly to your subconscious mind. In turn, your subconscious mind illogically responded to the sad scene and reacted to it as if it were real. Therefore, you felt sad, and tears came to your eyes. It's obvious that the subconscious mind is capable of responding to direct and implied suggestions (like those in a movie scene or that are given by a hypnotist). It doesn't matter if the suggestions are true or false. The subconscious mind responds to acceptable suggestions as if they are real. This is how a woman can be hypnotized to deliver her baby without feeling pain, a hypnotized man can have a root canal without feeling pain, or a well-made movie can hypnotically evoke emotions of sadness, excitement, anger or laughter from its viewer. Fortunately, one's free agency cannot be overruled merely by suggestion or hypnosis. For instance, when you experience a sad
Re: [AI] how to give a password to the folder without using any softwares in window's7?
Sorry friend, I'm using window xp and I couldn't find any such sub menu. regards, Sandeep At 09:05 PM 05-01-12, you wrote: Hello! Select the folder you wish to give password, press application key. If you travel through the menus using down arrow, you will see My WinLocker submenu. From there, select Encrypt file, press enter there and follow the instructions. Thanking you, Lissy Verghese Kindly contact me for further assistance. On 1/5/12, Minar Singh singhmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends please guide Me how to set password to the folder without any software like folder lock in window's7? any assistance would be appreciated. thanks and warm regards. -- You wondered how you'd make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you're looking for, is the one thing you can't see. Vanessa Williams 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 -- http://www.epubbooks.com/books 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 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
[AI] Required contacts of people from JNU, DELHI.
Hello access indians! Greetings! One of my students wants to pursue MA history in the prestigious J.N.U. Could someone from there help me procure the previous years question papers. Waiting for an early reply. Regards solomon. 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Dear Rahul I am quoting from your mail: So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Now, please remember writing a paper cannot be equated with solving it. So, please refrain from using inappropriate words... I know you did it unconsciously, but blind themselves doing this is atrocious. I always corrected anybody who told my writer that she is solving my paper... -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:44 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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 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. 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Nowadays of course computer can be used and gradually, the rules are in place for some exams at least. However, it should ultimately depend on individual choice and computer should never be advocated to the exclusion of a writer. I am aware of comparative merits/demerits of both the methods, but on a personal note, aesthetically, I have found it to be one of the good experiences of life to have writer beside you and dictate the answers. Some literary authors also follow this practice despite being visually normal... -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:57 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS Hi, Yeah, I have so far chosen to give my exams with a writer primarily because of the reasons that you mentioned. However, some people do manage to successfully deal with all these problems and are able to give their exams on the computer. So, I thought that I should also consider that option. I also read somewhere that one is allowed to use a writer of a higher grade if the writer is in another stream. So, does this rule apply to all universities/boards? On 06/01/2012, Shona Man shonam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, its better idea to give ur exams if u are smart enough in typing on the keyboard. I am also planning to write my exams on computer in my next semester. I think that they will provide their own computer because if they allow u to use your own laptop then the apprehension of cheating will be in their mind even if u do honestly!. But what I found that while dictating the answer the state of mind is much concentrated rather than typing on the keyboard. Typing distracts the mind and one may loose his/her concentration. But I will do hard work upon maintaining concentration while typing. Another apprehension is of some mishapp, suppose something bad happened with the computer or you by mistake loose the written answer! or any other technical faliour to the machine? I think LL.B exams can be given in better way by writing himself. On 1/5/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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 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 Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hello All, Prefer computer rather then another person to write my answers as it judges my skills and self evaluation can be done in terms of grammar , typing , speed helpful for competitive exams and cheating would be with yourself rather then any other modus operandi. Computer can take care of any lengthy stuff , diagrams , computation etc.The option of using both computer and test paper script is also practical. Cheers, Pankaj Kwatra -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Shona Man Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:09 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS Hi, its better idea to give ur exams if u are smart enough in typing on the keyboard. I am also planning to write my exams on computer in my next semester. I think that they will provide their own computer because if they allow u to use your own laptop then the apprehension of cheating will be in their mind even if u do honestly!. But what I found that while dictating the answer the state of mind is much concentrated rather than typing on the keyboard. Typing distracts the mind and one may loose his/her concentration. But I will do hard work upon maintaining concentration while typing. Another apprehension is of some mishapp, suppose something bad happened with the computer or you by mistake loose the written answer! or any other technical faliour to the machine? I think LL.B exams can be given in better way by writing himself. On 1/5/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I usually give all my exams with the help of a writer. I am currently in 12th grade. So, I often find it hard to find a good writer for giving all my tests. I have been able to finalize a writer for the boards. She writes very well, but the problem is that she grumbles a lot because the answers that I have to write are often very long and she has to spend nearly 4 hours for every paper. I usually don't ask one writer to give more than a couple of papers at a time so that they can all get adequate amount of rest. I do know that this is not possible for the boards, and that is why I said that I have finalized one single writer for the boards. However, like I said earlier, it is often very difficult to find a good writer. I am planning to go for LLB after 12th, so I will inevitably have to solve long, lengthy papers. So, due to this, very few people will be willing to solve my papers for me. Many people solve their papers on a computer with JAWS. So, even I'll probably have to do that after 12th. I have a couple of questions regarding that. First, do you use your own laptop for solving the papers, or do you have to use a computer at the place where you're giving your exam? Do you face any particular problems with this method of giving your exams on the computer? Are you able to properly finish your paper within the stipulated amount of time? So, please do respond to these questions. Your help, as always, would be really appreciated. Cheers, Rahul 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.i n -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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.i n .. This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have erroneously received this message, please delete it immediately and notify the sender. The recipient acknowledges that TECNOVATE ESOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED (An Intelenet Group Company), is unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of/over the contents of the information contained in e-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of TECNOVATE ESOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED (An Intelenet Group Company). Before opening any attachments please check them for viruses and defects.
Re: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism.
Well, I think whether blind can be hypnotized and whether they can hypnotize is an interesting topic. It is true that hypnotism suspends your analytical abilities and makes you highly susceptible to suggestion. The exact mechanism of this is still being debated in Psychological circles. However, the practitioners primarily employ visual means to achieve this. In fact, I have been at times totally excluded from it due to my visual disability. However, I think tactual, auditory and olfactory means can also be employed to achieve the desired effect. However, they have not been explored due to predominance of visual stimuli in life itself. I have it as one of the goals in life to explore this path and so welcome personally any like minded persons. I happened to read that Brent Gifford is a magician cum hypnotherapist in USA, but have not been able to contact him. At present, I can say with some conviction that no blind has been hypnotized in India let alone hypnotizing others. I would love to be proved wrong.. -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Surendra Salgaonkar? Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 6:14 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Cc: accessindia-ow...@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Discussion on hypnotism. Dear ones can we have a discussion on hypnotism?do you all know about hypnotism?can blind be hypnotised?how?what is the method?every thing...but nicely...start...share...thank you and good luck Surendra Salgaonkar. mobile 09867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com 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 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. 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi Pranav and others, Can we set Kurzweil 1000 to save the document, that we are typing into, every 2 minutes? If yes how? And also how can we achieve this in MS Word with Jaws? Regards, Rishi. - Original Message - From: Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS Hi Rahul, I have taken exams using Jaws in b-school. I have done both, use my own machine and install jaws on a professor's computer. Finishing the exam is no problem. You can read the question at your own speed and write as fast as you like. Humans are quite slow. If I were you, I would set the word processor in which I am writing the exam to save the document every 2 minutes. That way, you only lose 2 minutes worth of work if the worse happens and you need to reboot. If you need to take an exam on someone else's computer, familiarize yourself with that computer's keyboard before you start the exam. This way, you can avoid situations like accidently hitting the sleep button. Pranav 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 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
[AI] A great medium of public education declines
The Hindu Opinion: A great medium of public education declines Krishna Kumar PTI The radio's characteristics as a medium redefined education, creating the possibility of learning long after childhood had passed. File photo Finding something worth listening to on medium wave in the broadcasts of an All India Radio station in any part of the country is like looking for life in a drought-hit landscape. It is nice to know that Prasar Bharati can now hope to get some financial autonomy as well as funds to buy new equipment (The Hindu, December 16). However, autonomy and funds will need a matching increase in spirit and imagination if Prasar Bharati wants to save its radio services from a final surrender at the altar of market values. Finding something worth listening to on medium wave in the broadcasts of an All India Radio (AIR) station in any part of the country is like looking for life in a drought-hit landscape. Tuning in to AIR's overseas service is worse. Nowadays when AIR is vigorously advertising its DTH service, it needs to reflect on how its philosophy and functioning have changed over the last three decades. A deeper examination is required to determine AIR's relationship with India's people in the emerging social order. Unique technology In the global history of modern communications, radio grew as a unique technology which combined the use of sound with narrative without recourse to visual or graphic imagery. Its appeal came from humanity's long experience of spoken language as the primary means of communication. Every civilisation was originally nourished by words uttered by familiar voices in the course of story telling or singing. The great thing about the radio was that human voice could now cover long distances and thereby create large communities of listeners. The radio's characteristics as a medium redefined education, creating the possibility of learning long after childhood had passed. It opened up a new world of creative expression in familiar genres like story, drama and poetry. Radio added a new dimension to music and discursive prose. New genres like reportage that were specific to radio arose. As a medium of mass communication, radio found a congenial climate in India's vast geography and varied cultural terrain. Its role in bringing India together is yet to be fully appreciated, and if its current crisis continues, we may never realise what all it could have accomplished in the socio-political and cultural spheres, had it been nurtured on a sustained basis. Intellectual creative interaction During the first two decades following independence, All India Radio was perceived primarily as an educative medium. The few stations there were served as centres of intellectual and creative interaction. With basic technological aids, the early generation of producers was able to achieve a high standard of rigour and grace in a remarkable range of forms and subjects. Despite the internal struggle between bureaucrats and producers that one hears about, AIR remained an attractive source of employment for talented young people. In Hindi, for instance, a stint with Akashvani made a palpable impact on the creative trajectory of a substantial number of major poets and writers of the post-independence generation. The same can be said of musicians and singers. The Emergency cast its shadow on AIR, making it a prime vehicle of dissemination of a culture of chicanery and sycophancy. Before AIR could recover from this misuse, it was demoted to the status of a poor cousin of Doordarshan. And shortly thereafter, the policy of drastic reduction in the size of the state apparatus silently crept in. Like all other Ministries and departments of the Central government, AIR too lost hundreds, perhaps thousands, of posts. Perhaps some pruning was justified, but the government pursued an extremist line, showing limited patience or insight in distinguishing office staff from jobs requiring specific skills and knowledge. In any case, the new office technology had blurred this distinction, making support services an obsolete concept. Machines replaced people, and the culture of collective thinking was replaced by connectivity among the isolated. Contractual arrangements became the norm and planning acquired a visionless, ad hoc character. Outsourcing of tasks emerged as yet another attractive instrument of reducing institutional liability. A vast number of institutions fell victim to these policies, incurring irreparable damage to their internal capacities and pride. This is what seems to have happened to AIR too. Lack of spirit or vision Its medium wave coverage now lacks any semblance of spirit or vision. Medium wave transmission is now treated as a preserve of the rural listeners: those living in cities have the privilege of FM listening. Barring short insertions in news bulletins or a few sponsored programmes, AIR's FM frequencies are now fully devoted
Re: [AI] VI entrepreneurs
I am interested to know what it is. Give me your contact details. Mohammed Ahtesham 9820998588 -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of SYED IMRAN Sent: 05 January 2012 08:26 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] VI entrepreneurs If there are any VI entrepreneurs or if you are someone intending to start your own business in near future, please get in touch with me off the list. Thanks Syed 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 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
[AI] VLC query
Friends, How do i play back to back songs in the folder with VLC. Same for my c5 Nokia phone. pl guide thanks -- “The waves breaking on the surface draw all the attention, but it is the current beneath the water that determines your direction.” 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
[AI] A Colleague's wife falls into a pit!
Friends, The day before yesterday, a colleague of ours along with his wife had gone to a market near their house in North Delhi. Both are visually impaired and the lighting on the road was poor and the wife slipped and fell into a pit on the way and was badly hurt. Now pits, open man holes and all kinds of such obstacles are not very uncommon in a country like ours where the civic administration is totally inefficient, corrupt and insensitive. All of us who are visually impaired in this country have to thank God that we have not fallen into any of these traps as yet that are waiting for us in our cities while going about our daily lives. We are called upon to be independent and mobile. I wonder how this is possible when the environment around us is unsafe and inaccessible. This apart, a few years ago I was visiting an old building in Central Delhi and while climbing the stairs, I found uncovered electric wires hanging loosely on the sides of the staircase. A blind person could easily touched these wires. Wonder what the city authorities would have said then. I have encountered such staircases in Mumbai too. Another safety hazard for us blind people are the stray dogs and monkeys that boldly roam the streets these days. Shouldn't we do something about this? I think it is time we raised our voices against this. People have to realise that open man holes uncovered pits, untidy footpaths, uncovered electric wires, stray animals and the like are unsafe for all concerned. We should not be waiting for an accident to take place before taking any action. People interested in joining us in filing a PIL in this regard, please write to us privately at advoc...@eyeway.org We have to make our cities safer for each of us. Look forward to hearing from you! George George Abraham CEO Score Foundation 17/107, LGF Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4 New Delhi 110024 PH:91 11 26472581, 91 11 46070396 Mob: 91 9810934040, 91 9810001181 Email: geo...@eyeway.org Skype: georgeabraham13 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi Pranav, please do tell us that what is that word processing? how can we set the ms word to save the document automatically every two minute? As u said that we should be familiarise with the keyboard of the computer, but I think we can request them to use our own USB keyboard with which we are very much used to. I think there is no demarit in using the computer for our exams. This time when I was writing my LL.M exams I was not satisfied with the writing skills of the scribe, what I was dictating she was not able to note the spellings correctly and she made repeatedly mistake in placing comma and full stop, as she was herself putting these marks before asking so by me. I am also good in typing therefore I am thinking to do this experiment in my coming semester exam. I have plan to appear in civil services exam, if I learn to write exam through computer then I can write my UPSC exam in that way, because I rely on myself in writing and speed then any other writing for me. I can write fastly then notting down the dictation by next person. For Rahul, writer rules defer from university to university, like in our DU, u can take one more qualified then u but should not have passed that degree at higher level. But during my B.A.LL.B program my faculty always provided me Phd scholar of law as my scribe. On 1/6/12, Rishi Kewalramani rishi.kewalram...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pranav and others, Can we set Kurzweil 1000 to save the document, that we are typing into, every 2 minutes? If yes how? And also how can we achieve this in MS Word with Jaws? Regards, Rishi. - Original Message - From: Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS Hi Rahul, I have taken exams using Jaws in b-school. I have done both, use my own machine and install jaws on a professor's computer. Finishing the exam is no problem. You can read the question at your own speed and write as fast as you like. Humans are quite slow. If I were you, I would set the word processor in which I am writing the exam to save the document every 2 minutes. That way, you only lose 2 minutes worth of work if the worse happens and you need to reboot. If you need to take an exam on someone else's computer, familiarize yourself with that computer's keyboard before you start the exam. This way, you can avoid situations like accidently hitting the sleep button. Pranav 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 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams using Jaws
How can you convert to PDF? Can you give me the steps? Is there some software to convert or is it there along with Kurzweil package or MS office? On 1/6/12, Amar Jain amarjain2...@gmail.com wrote: My views, which also include some tips on this subject: 1. Speed: Forget about speed. When I say this, I don’t want it to apply on those who are pretty slow in typing or are called basic users of computer. But if you are bold enough to take this step, normally you will not fall in that category . Do not forget to bare in mind the difference which is there while using writer and while typing on computer. At the same time, we are simply replaced with what is known as e-scribe instead of human being, of course customization and flexibility is greater. 2. Language As A Barrier: If you find yourself uncomfortable with language in which you have to give your exam (to be precise English), then if you can manage a little, spell checker can be handy. Keep 15 to 20 minutes at least for corrections if you are not doing it simultaneously. 3. Saving And Printing: Save your word file in every minute using auto save option from word options. Also use auto recovery as an option. Depending upon performance of your word processor, keep hitting ctrl+s after every answer at least, and in case of long answers, after short duration. This way you are sure that the data is not going unsaved. When final sheet is ready for printing, then save it in PDF, and take the printout. Using some automation tricks, you can keep two copies of your file: one in your internal hard drive, and other in external medium of storage. 4. Formatting And Font: Normally, 16 font size is good. If you desire, change it to 18 and start writing. But when you save it in PDF, 18 does not look bad and too big. Divide your answer in paragraphs, and give bold effect or underline effect wherever required and possible to do so depending upon the time you have in hand. It is equally important to write total number of pages on your first page, and use the footer which reads e.g., 1/22. Thereby there is no scope of your pages getting lost etc. All this makes your presentation pretty good and gives anyone a comfortable experience of reading. 5. System Maintenance: If you are carrying your own laptop / any other system, the best practice is to take all data out from it to an external HD, and keep your system as clean as possible. So if there comes some checking by staff, you get into no problems. And if required, do not feel lazy in formatting your system. If possible, use keyboards like the one sold by TVS, which makes typing really faster and comfortable. Keep Antivirus up to date. Keep a pen drive or any other external storage device with you, containing no data other than your answer sheet. (you may consider storing your screen reading or magnification software though) These are a few tips which are coming in my mind right now. The advantage of using computer is that you know what you have written, are writing, and what aught not to be written. Further, you can wonderfully present your answer sheet which can be advantageous and disadvantageous both. In the sense that if examiner looks at the well-printed answer sheet, and if you have written good content, you may score well. However if the number of such students is in singles, then if the examiner is not sitting with clean mind, then there are chances of you scoring bad. Because printed paper can be easily distinguished from the handwritten papers. (All depends upon mentality) I myself have faced problem of lack of cooperation from new examination center. Sometimes they ask you to put thumb impression on each printed page, at times, I have been refused that the paper will not be printed from their end, and they will only send the pen drive to university. Sometimes they may refuse you from making suitable arrangements like giving you seat next to electricity switch board, they even refuse from sending their official with us for getting the printout from the outside, even university staff (the person who collects the copies) says flatly no for the same on the ground that they don’t want to take any responsibility, etc. This has happened despite I have clear permission from University to use computer in my exams. Such possibilities cannot be negated, and you are left with no option then to fight at the last moment. As far as carrying your own laptop / using college system is concerned, I always prefer using my own system because I know about its performance. And there are chances that if university provides you the system, then you may face difficulties due to its performance and other technical reasons. Cheating is something on which most of such authorities protest. But if one has to cheat, then you give them whatever you want, whether it is scribe, or computer, or even Braille or forget everything oral exams, nobody can stop them from cheating.
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
Hi, I understand Pankaj has enough good reasons for promoting exams on computers. Only One more thing I would add. Writing exams on computer is like being your own master managing things for yourself without depending on anybody else. I have at times found the writers for me very disturbing when they interrupt your thinking process by being impatient to be dictated without break at other times they would chip in their own knowledge in the stream. Using your own lap top is no bar as per rules, I understand. it goes in examiners jurisdiction to check you you are cheating or honestly doing. Yes, the vulnerable part is the exam-taker's temptation to get some help from computer being it so easy hidden, which may prove fatal to him on being seen the slightest inclinations. This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway, Refineries HQ, New Delhi, India. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. 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
Re: [AI] Giving exams with JAWS
dear all, I would like to request all of you kindly go through the draft guideline prepared by Score Foundation and XRCVC. You will find in the draft separate section for using technology for writing exams either of the following links: http://www.eyeway.org/includes/advocacy http://www.xrcvc.org (Visit Quick Link section on XRCVC Website’s home page) Kindly give your comments on scr...@eyeway.org Awaiting for your response, Abhishek Thakur Research Offecer Score Foundation On 1/6/12, YADAV, D. N yada...@iocl.co.in wrote: Hi, I understand Pankaj has enough good reasons for promoting exams on computers. Only One more thing I would add. Writing exams on computer is like being your own master managing things for yourself without depending on anybody else. I have at times found the writers for me very disturbing when they interrupt your thinking process by being impatient to be dictated without break at other times they would chip in their own knowledge in the stream. Using your own lap top is no bar as per rules, I understand. it goes in examiners jurisdiction to check you you are cheating or honestly doing. Yes, the vulnerable part is the exam-taker's temptation to get some help from computer being it so easy hidden, which may prove fatal to him on being seen the slightest inclinations. This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway, Refineries HQ, New Delhi, India. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. 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 -- Abhishek Thakur Under graduated from St Stephen’s College New Delhi, Graduated from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai India, Professional in social work. Email: emailtotha...@gmail.com Contact number: +91/9555090667 The world suffers a lot, not because of violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people..! 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
Re: [AI] A Colleague's wife falls into a pit!
Hi George and the Eyeway Team, You have raised a very, very important issue and I think we all have to join hands to make our cities safer against open man holes uncovered pits, untidy footpaths, uncovered electric wires, stray animals etc. We should certainly file a PIL regarding this and try our best to make a difference.\ Regarding the stray dogs, I have herd so many cases where the visually impaired have been bitten if not ferociously barked at by them. I myself have been a victim of being barked at, very ferociously and nearly bitten whenever I use my white cane. The street dogs perceive the white cane as a threat and react in a very ferocious manner, which is really scary at times. This discourages me to use the white cane and sort of impedes my independence with respect to my mobility. After complaining to the municipality a couple of times, I finally was told that in our country, the law by the Supreme court with respect to stray dogs says that they just have to be injected, waxinated so that even if they were to bite, no one gets rabies, that's about all. I fail to understand the logic behind this law of not getting rid of the stray dogs. In countries like America and Australia, the law states that there should be no stray dogs and other stray animals at all, and even pets cannot be left lose in public places and have to be chained and caught by the owner. I think its high timewe all have to get together and raise our voices against all this, file a PIL regarding this and fight for our rights till the very end to make sure that our cities are much safer for one and all. Please, let us all join hands for this necessary and noble cause, Sincerely, Rishi. - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: [AI] A Colleague's wife falls into a pit! Friends, The day before yesterday, a colleague of ours along with his wife had gone to a market near their house in North Delhi. Both are visually impaired and the lighting on the road was poor and the wife slipped and fell into a pit on the way and was badly hurt. Now pits, open man holes and all kinds of such obstacles are not very uncommon in a country like ours where the civic administration is totally inefficient, corrupt and insensitive. All of us who are visually impaired in this country have to thank God that we have not fallen into any of these traps as yet that are waiting for us in our cities while going about our daily lives. We are called upon to be independent and mobile. I wonder how this is possible when the environment around us is unsafe and inaccessible. This apart, a few years ago I was visiting an old building in Central Delhi and while climbing the stairs, I found uncovered electric wires hanging loosely on the sides of the staircase. A blind person could easily touched these wires. Wonder what the city authorities would have said then. I have encountered such staircases in Mumbai too. Another safety hazard for us blind people are the stray dogs and monkeys that boldly roam the streets these days. Shouldn't we do something about this? I think it is time we raised our voices against this. People have to realise that open man holes uncovered pits, untidy footpaths, uncovered electric wires, stray animals and the like are unsafe for all concerned. We should not be waiting for an accident to take place before taking any action. People interested in joining us in filing a PIL in this regard, please write to us privately at advoc...@eyeway.org We have to make our cities safer for each of us. Look forward to hearing from you! George George Abraham CEO Score Foundation 17/107, LGF Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4 New Delhi 110024 PH:91 11 26472581, 91 11 46070396 Mob: 91 9810934040, 91 9810001181 Email: geo...@eyeway.org Skype: georgeabraham13 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 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
