Re: [AI] Complaint filed against MakeMyTrip for Inaccessibility of its app to blind users

[Praveen Kumar]

Excelent initiative Rahul, also add in:

cleartrip, easemytrip, bigbasket  and government portals including 
indiapost, IRCTC


In solidarity,

Praveen

On 07/03/2022 12:09, George Abraham wrote:


Super!

*From:*accessindia@accessindia.org.in 
[mailto:accessindia@accessindia.org.in] *On Behalf Of *Rahul Bajaj

*Sent:* Monday, March 7, 2022 12:05 PM
*To:* AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues 
concerning the disabled.
*Subject:* [AI] Complaint filed against MakeMyTrip for Inaccessibility 
of its app to blind users


i everyone,

With the support of Mission Accessibility - an initiative run by me, 
Amar and Turab- Ameenaji has filed a complaint in the court of the 
CCPD against MakeMyTrip. Please read about it here:


https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/complaint-filed-against-make-my-trip-before-chief-commissioner-under-disabilities-act-for-being-inaccessible-to-visually-challenged-users-193110 
 



This is just the first step in the long battle to realize the right to 
digital accessibility for all Indians with disabilities. We plan on 
taking other service providers which have refused to collaborate with 
us to court in the coming period. If there is a service provider that 
you think deserves to be legally proceeded against for its failure to 
comply with accessibility norms, please reach out to either me, Amar 
or Turab. You can also call me on 9890281068. You can email us on 
missionaccessibil...@gmail.com.


Rahul

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[AI] NVDA tips for navigation in Microsoft Word

[NAB Delhi Helpline]

Single letter navigation can also be used in Microsoft Word similar to the
way it works in the browsers.

Switch to browse mode by pressing Insert + space and then use these
keys:

H for next heading
T for next table
G for next graphic
Press these keys with Shift to go to the previous item.
Press Insert Space to return to focus mode for editing the document.

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Re: [AI] Suggestions needed for Smart glass

[Murali padmanabhan]

Hi thank you very much for the detailed information about the request I am in 
Bangkok and would like to know the cost and delivery to my place otherwise I 
should be returning to India mid June let me know how it works is there any 
demonstration video possible thank you

Sent from my iPhone

> On 07-Mar-2022, at 1:47 PM, Aishwarya Pillai  wrote:
> 
> Hi Murali,
> This is  Aishwarya from LV Prasad Eye Institute.  We are  partnered
> with Vision-Aid who have developed the device through Smart Health
> Global.
> The device has different modes;
> Things around: for knowing the objects and scene around
> Reading: for reading text in different languages
> Walking Assistance: for detecting objects and the distance around you
> Face recognition: for storing face and later identifying  whose face it is.
> If you are in Hyderabad, you can come down to our center in Banjara
> Hills to test it. Please let me know if you are from any other place,
> I will check with the team and see which place is closer to you.
> 
> With regards,
> Aishwarya.
> 
>> On 3/6/22, Murali padmanabhan  wrote:
>> Hi friends good morning is anyone using smart glass can you explain the
>> benefit facility and how it works where it can work thank you
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
 On 06-Mar-2022, at 9:24 AM, Aziz Minat  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hey, thanks. But I was wondering whether stationary bike help to regain
>>> the fitness overall? As I have a desk job so my big worry is about lack of
>>> exercise leading to to gaining of weight which I want to control. Taking
>>> walk in a park or anything like that is not feesable in view of no such
>>> facilities around where I live so I thought treadmill will be helpful to
>>> some extent. But kindly let me know about the stationary bike and whether
>>> it will help me considering the the above concerns I have shared
>>> 
>>> 
 On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, 11:54 Mohib Anwar Rafay, 
 wrote:
 Even I was thinking to buy treadmill, but finally i decided to
 purchase stationary bike in stead of treadmill. During my research i
 found some good treadmills options on amazon and flipkart. But i won't
 recommend you to buy from amazon or flipkart, as lots of chinese
 treadmills are being sold on amazon and flipkart with no post purchase
 service or very poor customer support.
 I also visitted fitness equipment shopps physically to find the best
 treadmill for me. Lots of options are there in the market, some are
 coming with few basic features, while some treadmills are equipped
 with smart functions. I don't know how much they are accessible via
 their app. But DeCathlon treadmills are good option, you can check
 their website or visit their store if its available at your place.
 They can deliver your home.
 
 On 3/4/22, Aziz Minat  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to purchase a treadmill as the subject line suggests, many
> options I
> am getting online but I am not able to figure out what are the
> configurations we should take into consideration while buying.
> Nowadays
> screen touch is increasing so in that regard also I am not very sure
> how
> much accessible it might be. So kindly recommend a product which is
> accessible and handy to use.
> 
> Aziz Minat
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[AI] YOUTUBE Link Of Badalta Daur With Mr. Kartik Sawhney On Inclusive Stem Confluence 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0lQIiCEWk=302s

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YOUTUBE Link Of Badalta Daur With Mr. Kartik Sawhney On Inclusive Stem
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Re: [AI] Seeing with fingertips Braille in Southasia

[Shyam M. Sayanekar]

Hello, a very good and informative article. Some efforts were also made to 
introduce contracted Marathi Braille but were not of much success. Braille 
is also used to write notation in Classical music as well as natural 
sciences like chemistry.  Earlier, transcribing into braill with a slate was 
a difficult task, but with development of technology, several mechanical and 
ellectronic devices became available and now it has become very easy.
- Original Message - 
From: "S Solomon Karuppannan" 

To: 
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2022 3:13 PM
Subject: [AI] Seeing with fingertips Braille in Southasia


Himalmag

4th March 2022


Seeing with fingertips
Braille in Southasia.

Listen to this article:


Himal Southasian Podcast Channel 

Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia (Audio article)


In the Buddhist classic of the Pali canon (Udāna 6.4), there is a mention
of the ancient fable of the blind men and an elephant. In this fable,
several blind men come across an elephant, and they describe it by touching
its ears, tail, trunk, leg, and sides. Each describes the animal using
their individual perception through touch. The elephant was perceived as a
snake by the one who touched its trunk; as a pillar by one who touched its
leg; as a winnowing basket by the one who touched its ears; as a rope by
the one who touched its tail; and as a wall by the one who touched its
side. Apart from showing the susceptibility of individual perception to
subjective experiences, the fable also reveals the importance of tactile
perception. Touch is thought to be one of the first senses to develop in
babies and which gives us the sensory scaffoldings on which we visualise
our own bodies and sense of being. According to the World Health
Organization’s ‘World report on Vision’ (2019), 2.2 billion people have
some type of visual impairment. For many of them, touch remains a critical
sense for connecting and understanding the world.

Six raised dots

Believing in this sense of touch, Louis Braille, a 19th-century Frenchman
who was blind himself, developed a system of six raised dots on paper that
enabled blind people to read and write. Louis Braille was inspired by a
military code called ‘night writing’, which was developed in 1819 by
Charles Barbier for the French army, and which was used for nighttime
battlefield communications. Today, Braille is the world’s most widely used
tactile reading and writing system and is named after its inventor, Louis
Braille. Braille is not a language. It employs a system of raised dots to
spell out letters and punctuation. Across the globe, many people with
blindness or visual impairment use Braille for reading with their
fingertips and can write using Braille writing devices. World Braille Day
is celebrated on 4 January each year marking the birth anniversary of Louis
Braille.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of making information
available in multiple languages, in accessible formats including Braille
and audio versions.

Braille consists of an arrangement of raised dots in a cell. Each cell is
made up of six raised dot patterns, arranged in a rectangle containing two
columns of three dots each. The dots create 63 different patterns. Each
cell represents a letter of the alphabet, number, punctuation mark or other
print symbol.

There are two main types of Braille: uncontracted and contracted.
Uncontracted Braille, ie grade 1 Braille, translates each individual print
letter, number or punctuation mark into a Braille sign. With uncontracted
Braille, words are spelled out letter by letter. Therefore, it is used by
beginners for basic literacy. On the other hand, contracted Braille, ie
grade 2 Braille, is used by more experienced users. It uses the same
letters, punctuation and numbers as uncontracted (grade 1) Braille, but it
also uses a system of abbreviations (contractions) where one letter might
represent an entire word. Because contracted Braille makes reading quicker
and easier, it is the most commonly used form of Braille in the anglophone
world.

For example, if you want to write ‘Himal Southasian’ in uncontracted
English Braille, it will look like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇ ⠎⠕⠥⠞⠓⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

But if you write Himal Southasian in contracted English Braille, it will
appear like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇⠀⠎⠳⠹⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

Braille in Southasia

According to the World Braille Usage Survey (2013), there are 137 unique
Braille codes used in 142 different countries of the world. Out of these
numerous codes, there are around 16 unique Braille codes from a total of 20
codes used for Southasian languages. The story of Braille in Southasia
starts with the establishment of the first school for the blind in Amritsar
(British India) in 1887. This school, known as ‘The North India Industrial
Home for the Blind’, was founded by an English woman named Annie Sharp
(1858-1903) on the premises of St Catherine’s 

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RE: [AI] Seeing with fingertips Braille in Southasia

[George Abraham]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing!

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From: accessindia@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia@accessindia.org.in] On 
Behalf Of S Solomon Karuppannan
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2022 3:13 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: [AI] Seeing with fingertips Braille in Southasia

Himalmag

4th March 2022


Seeing with fingertips
Braille in Southasia.

Listen to this article:


Himal Southasian Podcast Channel 

Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia (Audio article) 


In the Buddhist classic of the Pali canon (Udāna 6.4), there is a mention of 
the ancient fable of the blind men and an elephant. In this fable, several 
blind men come across an elephant, and they describe it by touching its ears, 
tail, trunk, leg, and sides. Each describes the animal using their individual 
perception through touch. The elephant was perceived as a snake by the one who 
touched its trunk; as a pillar by one who touched its leg; as a winnowing 
basket by the one who touched its ears; as a rope by the one who touched its 
tail; and as a wall by the one who touched its side. Apart from showing the 
susceptibility of individual perception to subjective experiences, the fable 
also reveals the importance of tactile perception. Touch is thought to be one 
of the first senses to develop in babies and which gives us the sensory 
scaffoldings on which we visualise our own bodies and sense of being. According 
to the World Health Organization’s ‘World report on Vision’ (2019), 2.2 billion 
people have some type of visual impairment. For many of them, touch remains a 
critical sense for connecting and understanding the world.

Six raised dots

Believing in this sense of touch, Louis Braille, a 19th-century Frenchman who 
was blind himself, developed a system of six raised dots on paper that enabled 
blind people to read and write. Louis Braille was inspired by a military code 
called ‘night writing’, which was developed in 1819 by Charles Barbier for the 
French army, and which was used for nighttime battlefield communications. 
Today, Braille is the world’s most widely used tactile reading and writing 
system and is named after its inventor, Louis Braille. Braille is not a 
language. It employs a system of raised dots to spell out letters and 
punctuation. Across the globe, many people with blindness or visual impairment 
use Braille for reading with their fingertips and can write using Braille 
writing devices. World Braille Day is celebrated on 4 January each year marking 
the birth anniversary of Louis Braille.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of making information 
available in multiple languages, in accessible formats including Braille and 
audio versions.

Braille consists of an arrangement of raised dots in a cell. Each cell is made 
up of six raised dot patterns, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns 
of three dots each. The dots create 63 different patterns. Each cell represents 
a letter of the alphabet, number, punctuation mark or other print symbol.

There are two main types of Braille: uncontracted and contracted.
Uncontracted Braille, ie grade 1 Braille, translates each individual print 
letter, number or punctuation mark into a Braille sign. With uncontracted 
Braille, words are spelled out letter by letter. Therefore, it is used by 
beginners for basic literacy. On the other hand, contracted Braille, ie grade 2 
Braille, is used by more experienced users. It uses the same letters, 
punctuation and numbers as uncontracted (grade 1) Braille, but it also uses a 
system of abbreviations (contractions) where one letter might represent an 
entire word. Because contracted Braille makes reading quicker and easier, it is 
the most commonly used form of Braille in the anglophone world.

For example, if you want to write ‘Himal Southasian’ in uncontracted English 
Braille, it will look like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇ ⠎⠕⠥⠞⠓⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

But if you write Himal Southasian in contracted English Braille, it will appear 
like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇⠀⠎⠳⠹⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

Braille in Southasia

According to the World Braille Usage Survey (2013), there are 137 unique 
Braille codes used in 142 different countries of the world. Out of these 
numerous codes, there are around 16 unique Braille codes from a total of 20 
codes used for Southasian languages. The story of Braille in Southasia starts 
with the establishment of the first school for the blind in Amritsar (British 
India) in 1887. This school, known as ‘The North India Industrial Home for the 
Blind’, was founded by an English woman named Annie Sharp
(1858-1903) on the premises of St Catherine’s Hospital in Amritsar. In 1903, 
the school was moved to Rajpur and was renamed as ‘Sharp Memorial School for 
the Blind’ in memory of its founder. Later, schools for the blind were 
established in Palayamkottai (1890), Ahmedabad (1895), Calcutta (1897), 

[AI] Seeing with fingertips Braille in Southasia

[S Solomon Karuppannan]

Himalmag

4th March 2022


Seeing with fingertips
Braille in Southasia.

Listen to this article:


Himal Southasian Podcast Channel 

Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia (Audio article)


In the Buddhist classic of the Pali canon (Udāna 6.4), there is a mention
of the ancient fable of the blind men and an elephant. In this fable,
several blind men come across an elephant, and they describe it by touching
its ears, tail, trunk, leg, and sides. Each describes the animal using
their individual perception through touch. The elephant was perceived as a
snake by the one who touched its trunk; as a pillar by one who touched its
leg; as a winnowing basket by the one who touched its ears; as a rope by
the one who touched its tail; and as a wall by the one who touched its
side. Apart from showing the susceptibility of individual perception to
subjective experiences, the fable also reveals the importance of tactile
perception. Touch is thought to be one of the first senses to develop in
babies and which gives us the sensory scaffoldings on which we visualise
our own bodies and sense of being. According to the World Health
Organization’s ‘World report on Vision’ (2019), 2.2 billion people have
some type of visual impairment. For many of them, touch remains a critical
sense for connecting and understanding the world.

Six raised dots

Believing in this sense of touch, Louis Braille, a 19th-century Frenchman
who was blind himself, developed a system of six raised dots on paper that
enabled blind people to read and write. Louis Braille was inspired by a
military code called ‘night writing’, which was developed in 1819 by
Charles Barbier for the French army, and which was used for nighttime
battlefield communications. Today, Braille is the world’s most widely used
tactile reading and writing system and is named after its inventor, Louis
Braille. Braille is not a language. It employs a system of raised dots to
spell out letters and punctuation. Across the globe, many people with
blindness or visual impairment use Braille for reading with their
fingertips and can write using Braille writing devices. World Braille Day
is celebrated on 4 January each year marking the birth anniversary of Louis
Braille.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of making information
available in multiple languages, in accessible formats including Braille
and audio versions.

Braille consists of an arrangement of raised dots in a cell. Each cell is
made up of six raised dot patterns, arranged in a rectangle containing two
columns of three dots each. The dots create 63 different patterns. Each
cell represents a letter of the alphabet, number, punctuation mark or other
print symbol.

There are two main types of Braille: uncontracted and contracted.
Uncontracted Braille, ie grade 1 Braille, translates each individual print
letter, number or punctuation mark into a Braille sign. With uncontracted
Braille, words are spelled out letter by letter. Therefore, it is used by
beginners for basic literacy. On the other hand, contracted Braille, ie
grade 2 Braille, is used by more experienced users. It uses the same
letters, punctuation and numbers as uncontracted (grade 1) Braille, but it
also uses a system of abbreviations (contractions) where one letter might
represent an entire word. Because contracted Braille makes reading quicker
and easier, it is the most commonly used form of Braille in the anglophone
world.

For example, if you want to write ‘Himal Southasian’ in uncontracted
English Braille, it will look like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇ ⠎⠕⠥⠞⠓⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

But if you write Himal Southasian in contracted English Braille, it will
appear like this:

⠓⠊⠍⠁⠇⠀⠎⠳⠹⠁⠎⠊⠁⠝

Braille in Southasia

According to the World Braille Usage Survey (2013), there are 137 unique
Braille codes used in 142 different countries of the world. Out of these
numerous codes, there are around 16 unique Braille codes from a total of 20
codes used for Southasian languages. The story of Braille in Southasia
starts with the establishment of the first school for the blind in Amritsar
(British India) in 1887. This school, known as ‘The North India Industrial
Home for the Blind’, was founded by an English woman named Annie Sharp
(1858-1903) on the premises of St Catherine’s Hospital in Amritsar. In
1903, the school was moved to Rajpur and was renamed as ‘Sharp Memorial
School for the Blind’ in memory of its founder. Later, schools for the
blind were established in Palayamkottai (1890), Ahmedabad (1895), Calcutta
(1897), Ranchi (1898), Mumbai (1900), Colombo (1912) and Karachi (1923).

The opening of these schools ushered in the use of Braille in the region.
At one point of time, there were more than 11 different kinds of Braille
codes which were in use in the region. These included Shirreff Braille;
Gujarati Braille of Dr Chatrapati; Tamil Braille of Miss Askwith; Mysore
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[AI] [WeThePwd:2301] Fwd: Lecture on Health rights of persons with disabilities 10 March by David Werner

[Vaishnavi Jayakumar]

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From: rajive raturi 
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:50
Subject: Lecture on Health rights of persons with disabilities 10 March by
David Werner



 Dear Friends,
The Centre for Constitutional Rights is organizing the 5th lecture in
the Disability Rights lecture series on ‘The Right to health of
persons with disabilities’.

 Our resource person for this lecture is David Werner. David is   an
author and health activist, is co-founder and director of
HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights) and for years
was a visiting professor at Boston University’s International School
of Public Health. A biologist and educator by training, he has worked
for more than 50 years in village health care, community-based
rehabilitation, and Child-to-Child health initiatives in the global
south, mainly Mexico. From 1965 intothey 90s he was a facilitator and
adviser to Project Piaxtla, a pioneering villager-run health program
which contributed to the early conceptualization and evolution of
Primary Health Care (PHC). Out of Piaxtla grew PROJIMO, an innovative
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) program organized and run by
disabled youth of Western Mexico.

David, who has a physical disability himself (Charot-Marie-Tooth
syndrom), is still active in this program, as well as in a sister
program that designs and constructs personalized children's
wheelchairs at low cost. More recently he helped start and advises
Habilítate Mazatlán, a service program for disabled children run and
staffed by disabled recovering drug users.

 David  has kindly agreed to deliver this lecture at 5 pm  (India
time) on 10th March which  coincides to 3.30 am in the morning in
California where he is based.  .

We request you to please attend this lecture on 10 March which is
being organized virtually and the link for the lecture shall be sent
to you shortly.

With regards,

Rajive

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