Kindly let me know how do we subscribe to the list of accessindia
which discusses the issues of mobile phones and related gadgets. I am
asking so as I posted one of my queries with reference to
accessibility options in nokia lumia but as if now I haven’t got any
response.
Waiting to hear from you
New Delhi, 17-Jun-2015
'Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities', Ministry of Social
Justice and Empowerment has communicated the following to activists :
No stakeholder consultation on guardianship as recommended by the Standing
Committee report. There is no consensus on this
On 6/17/15, mukesh jain mukesh.jai...@gmail.com wrote:
hello sir,
yes,sure, since i have not used flipkart on my android phone as i have
already mentioned hence, i just thought to provide the alternate
solution. but if app is not accessible it's really the high time to
get it made accessible.
As I am not able to take the assignments regularly, being gainfully employed
elsewhere, it is not very handsome in my case.
But those whom I know and are take the job on a permanent basis, they are
earning 3 at an average monthly.
However, I am not aware of a visually impaired person, who is
Hello Abhay,
you are subscribed to AI mailing list and your mails are reaching the list.
On 6/18/15, abhay kanwar abhaykanwa...@gmail.com wrote:
Kindly let me know how do we subscribe to the list of accessindia
which discusses the issues of mobile phones and related gadgets. I am
asking so as
Before NIVH Chennai used to run Shorthand typing Classes in English,
electronic courses but presently all over india the institutions which
were running these courses do not get proper candidates shorthand
courses compulsory need good braille reading which is decreasing now
because of
Yes, bluetooth responds to commands a bit slowly. I am using a bluetooth
spekaer with my laptop. I use my laptop mainly for editing audio files.
Wired headphone works better, no doubt. The problem is I am very often
entangled in the wire and the wire gets taut and then torn.
With best
Just a curiosity; how much is the average income?
With best regards,
Amiyo Biswas
Cell: +91-9433464329
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Thanks
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On 17 June 2015 9:34:47 pm mukesh jain mukesh.jai...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
you might want to look at these resources:
The Google Android Accessibility Help Center:
It depends upon the quality. There are such Bluetooth handsets in the
market those don't have this delay problem. But undoubtedly they are
pretty expensive.
On 6/17/15, Amiyo Biswas amiyo.bis...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, bluetooth responds to commands a bit slowly. I am using a bluetooth
spekaer
*** 25th June 2015 = Deadline for your choice of buildings to be accessified
***
1. Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of
Social Justice Empowerment has launched the “Accessible India Campaign
(Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan)” as a nation-wide flagship campaign
dear list members i also accept your views regarding nivh i am also x
short hand trainee of that branch first of all i want share some of my
views with you 1. during my training period we also suggested them to
make some changes in stennography because they are not able to meet
government
I would mostly reiterate what others have already mentioned.
1. there should be a video recording provision for all candidates whether
blind or not. Once all the candidates know that a video could be examined
anytime, they would stop cheating. Such videos should be examined randomly
to find if
Dear Listers:
Follow below the daily alerts from the Eyeway Helpdesk:
1. News Alert-
80% visually impaired youth see themselves healthy. It is a common
perception that visual impairment, like any other form of disability, is a
major cause of despair among the affected persons. A joint study by
Once it is made compulsory, all visually impaired aspirants will become
computer literate. Until late 1990's SSC was conducting only written exams
for blind job seekers -- usually LDC's and UDC's. Since 1996 they made
typing exam compulsory for all blind clerical and stenographer
Aravind wrote: its imposible to take a scribe who can make us sit and
right fully in mains. such tallented scribes could have already
cleared UPSC and will have
no time helping us.
That's why UPSC is focusing on some limited qualification of the
scribe. If there is no qualification capping,
You are right Arvind: I sometimes don't understand why some of us have
this much apprehension about blind people's ability. We need to get
our house in order before we jump guns over others. I lament why this
much negativity and low-esteem is promoted by few at the cost of many.
There are sighted
Over qualified scribe should not be allowed in any condition.
If I am going for bank exam I should not be allowed to take graduate scribe.
If we have over qualified scribe I don’t think any kind of strict in
vigilance would work.
Sorry to say but after 2012 many vi have got jobs in bank and other
Dear friends,
sorry for off topic because I do not want to go on access india mobile
mailing list and go for a long process of subscribe it and than
hundereds of mails .
Please answer only my one question that I want to purchase a new
android mobile phone but till now I have not used any android
Hello,
My laptop does hardly have any sound. I always have to use an earphone or
speaker. I want to use a wireless earphone. I need something which I can use
for one ear only. I want to keep my other ear free. The models I have seen are
with headbands and cover both ears. I want something with
Friends,
We had filed a case in the CCPDs office regarding the inaccessibility of
the weekly publication The Employment News. The CCPD had ordered the Govt
to ensure that the publication is made accessible.
We have now received a reply from the Ministry of IB saying that they are
working
Hello friends,
I am urgently looking for VI people who have some experience in
operating a financial calculator.
Please reply to this email or contact me off the list.
Would appritiate a quick response.
Thanks,
Ajay
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Lets see how much compensation government provides
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/welfare-focus/article7324226.ece
--
Avinash Shahi
Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU
Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of
mobile phones /
There is nothing called over qualified scribe. Any one who writes well and
is willing to invest the time in writing for the blind should be allowed.
Besides I think if a blind candidate opts to write in Braille, he should be
allowed. The exam conducting agency can very easily have the Braille
Navneeth
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HELLO! THAT’S why my focus is on the fact that visually impaired should be
allowed to appear any exam in Braille or computer rather then scribe. A special
candidate should be recruit who has a knowledge of reading/writing Braille in
each and every university. This practice will be the most
Hi sir,
The flipkart app is almost unusable with talkback.
Since there are app only discounts, its the high time it is made
accessible for us.
Thanks,
Ajay
On 6/16/15, mukesh jain mukesh.jai...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
don't know about the app accessibility of flipkart but i am facing no
Hi Sumathi,
Its the worst thing to judge the accessibility from a singal platform.
Accessibility is the basic right of every citizen and its the
obligation of content providers to make their content accessible on
each and every platform.
Needless to say, everyone is not wealthy enough to afford an
Dear friends,
I'm in need of an order where age relaksation is offered to the blind
in their admission to higher education courses. It is very urgent.
Please help me by sending the same or giving me the details regarding
the cite where it will be available.
regards
--
Habeeb C.
Vice President
Dear Ishita
I am responding to your mail on this thread.
I am unsure, if you have read my comments in the earlier thread. We are looking
this in a broader issue and plane. The ramification is going to be far fetched
and it will not be possible to take this up time and again.
Let us understand
You will be surprised. When talking to some of the leading blind schools
regarding the use of computers for exam writing, I was told that most blind
students preferred using scribes. This tendency I believe goes right up to
the Masters level and beyond. When you begin working I wonder who will
My suggestion is to allow to bring our own scribe without insisting on
qualification, and strengthening the invigilation to avoid mal
practice. This is for not only UPSC exams, but all other exams, where
a scribe is needed. Allowing to write the exams in braille or in the
computer will be a pro
The biggest problem faced by these respondants is in reading. They
can't read newspapers,study found.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/cities/chandigarh/80-visually-impaired-youth-see-themselves-healthy-study/94916.html
--
Avinash Shahi
Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU
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Well, its productive that we're brainstorming on the guidelines and
suggestions are pouring in. I'm however more concerned about how the
representatives will reach to a consensus in their depositions. We
have three blind representatives--Advocate mis Palmnani, advocate Mr
Rungta and director NIVH
Harish sir, you may not be right what you've mentioned in your first
message of this thread.
If some foul play has been done at mains exam level with the
perspective of UPSC or the candidate, it can not be dealt at the
interview level. Because in UPSC interview is totally separet from
mains exam,
hello sir,
yes,sure, since i have not used flipkart on my android phone as i have
already mentioned hence, i just thought to provide the alternate
solution. but if app is not accessible it's really the high time to
get it made accessible. surely more and more hands to be joined for
this cause. so
Mohib
Folks, do get disqualified at the interview stage too.It is not that all those
who have cleared the mains would get the job. My contention is even if a
candidate gets through the mains stage, during the interview stage, the
interview is pretty rigourous and those who have come this far
A person who does well in a written exam thanks to support of the scribe
and qualifies because of that. His lack of calibre I guess will show up at
the interview stage. At the end of the day exams and interviews are
conducted to hire the best quality.
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Dear George
Congratulations!
Deepak Singla
On 6/17/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote:
Friends,
We had filed a case in the CCPDs office regarding the inaccessibility of
the weekly publication The Employment News. The CCPD had ordered the Govt
to ensure that the publication is
Well, let us hope it happens.
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From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Deepak Singla
Sent: 17 June 2015 14:54
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] accessibility
Yes sure
On 6/17/15, George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org wrote:
Well, let us hope it happens.
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Of Deepak Singla
Sent: 17 June 2015 14:54
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing
Cheating in examinations is a common practice. Refer to recently held
AIPMT2015.
So the argument of cheating should not and cannot be an excuse.
Cheating has to be stopped through the invigilater and not by creating
hurdles by formulating painstaking guidelines.
Therefore, when many cheats succeed
its imposible to take a scribe who can make us sit and right fully in mains.
such tallented scribes could have already cleared UPSC and will have
no time helping us.
so please don't complicate scribe issues in such high level difficult
exams as questions warrents creativity and analitical skills
hi all, can any body on list suggest computer games which i could play
with my 4 years old son?
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Thanks to all who have expressed their views.
If any of you have anything of real importance tomorrow then please call me
on my cell phone and let me know between 13.00-15.00. I may not be checking
email after this.
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street,
dear friends, i am looking for some documents/guidelines related to
accessibility for developers. actually i am testing a mobile
application which is yet to release. and i want to give that documents
to the developer.
so if anybody have the same, then please share the same.
with thanks and regards
Hi Amiyo,
Check this out:
http://www.amazon.in/Jabra-Voice-Supreme-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/B008F73YK8/ref
=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1434548509sr=8-1keywords=Jabra+supreme
I have been using the Jabra headset with the iPhone for over a year now and
am extremely happy with it. It is a Bluetooth headset; most
Hi,
If your friend is fluent in French and German, there are
transcription/translation opportunities from these languages into English
here:
www.languageinsight.com
Your friend can contact them directly via the Web site. She will have to go
through tests and other quality check procedures
Hi,
audiogames.net if I am spelling the URL correctly, is the primary
resource for audio and accessible games for visually impaired.
With systematically arranged resources, I believe it has a forum as
well where you could post this same question and receive answers from
a more specialized panel.
To be very frank, this institute has become a big liability for the nation.
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From: Sumathi sumathiranji...@gmail.com
To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:44 PM
Subject: [AI] NIVH and it's pathetic situation in chennai.
I agree with geetha. Paypal is the best source for insteant online
transactions. But I don't know why, they have debitted some amount while my
friend was sending canadian dollars to my account.
Kind Regards,
Sent from my iPhone
On 17-Jun-2015, at 7:30 pm, Geetha Shamanna geethas2...@gmail.com
Kindly don't think I'm discouraging you, But the bluetooth headsets are taking
some milliseconds time for activating the commands. I got one from sony and the
quality of the headset is wonderful. the only thing which is bothering me is,
it's taking just a millisecond for accepting the commands.
yeah of course. I wish all blind people will join together and protest against
this institution is being kept ideal and not for creating any new projects.
There were nearly ten different training courses earlier though.
Kind Regards,
Sent from my iPhone
On 17-Jun-2015, at 7:37 pm, B. R.
Dear Friends,
Sharing the article where Disability Activists have raised concerns
regarding the Guardianship for the Disabled People. This Article
doesn’t specifically talk about Visually Impaired but situation is not
different, if law itself states that Disabled Persons need to have
Guardian to
hello,
you might want to look at these resources:
The Google Android Accessibility Help Center:
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/?hl=en#topic=6007234
The latest maintained Android Accessibility app information:
http://inclusiveandroid.tk/
also see:
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