Re: [AI] Today on the Sexuality and Disability blog

2017-02-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hi Niharika, An interesting post. I was trying to comment on the post to add my experience but could not. The comments section on your Website is inaccessible for me with firefox and both nvda and jaws. It is very hard to get to the editable area with jaws and with both nvda and jaws, I am

Re: [AI] Citrix, Silverlight, Screen-readers and some technical questions

2016-12-20 Thread Manish Agrawal
Most questions below are basically bugs in jaws - e.g. jaws not working on the remote logon screen and having to turn jaws on and off in the remote session. You should log them as such with FS, if you haven't done that already. For switching between the local and remote machines without having

Re: [AI] NVDA experts,please help

2016-04-15 Thread Manish Agrawal
The best bet for captchas so far is webvisum. It only works in firefox afaik. It does work for me most of the time. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Yogesh J Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 12:18 PM To: AccessIndia: a list

Re: [AI] Fw: Disney•Pixar's New Technology for Blind People is Here

2016-04-04 Thread Manish Agrawal
This is great. Thanks for sharing. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vyas Gajendra Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:18 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Fw: Disney•Pixar's New Technology for Blind People is Here

Re: [AI] [Bulk] Re: India's 1st Blind-friendly Train Runs Between Mysuru, Varanasi

2016-01-29 Thread Manish Agrawal
I agree. Braille signage in public places is good. Why do people believe it is a bad idea? And what is a better alternative? Regards, Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of sanjay Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:04 AM

Re: [AI] Alternative to Web visum

2015-12-13 Thread Manish Agrawal
...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Manish Agrawal Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 9:44 AM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] Alternative to Web visum Hey Vishakha, When you say web visum doesn't work or works intermittently, do you

Re: [AI] Alternative to Web visum

2015-12-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hey Vishakha, When you say web visum doesn't work or works intermittently, do you mean: 1. The text recognized by webvisum is incorrect. 2. Webvisum is not working and gives some error related to the service being unavailable etc. Which browser and what version are you using? Regards, Manish

Re: [AI] New features added by NVDA India team for NVDA 2015.4

2015-11-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
ing of Microsoft Excel sheets: while working with >>>>> large number of sheets, users often need a way to list all the >>>>> sheets. So we >>>> have >>>>> added an option to list sheets in elements list dialog. Users can >>>>> also change

Re: [AI] Is it worth switching to Mac from Windows as a visually impaired user?

2015-10-25 Thread Manish Agrawal
and portable storage devices? Can the office applications like pages be used effectively? On 20 October 2015 at 04:37, Manish Agrawal <manis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use a mac book with voice over and also run windows 7 with jaws and NVDA > using parallels on the same machine. >

Re: [AI] Is it worth switching to Mac from Windows as a visually impaired user?

2015-10-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
I use a mac book with voice over and also run windows 7 with jaws and NVDA using parallels on the same machine. At this point in time, the windows screen readers are significantly easier to use and more versatile as compared to voice over IMHO. I am a software engineer and use both windows and

Re: [AI] Learning Visual Basic with Jaws

2015-09-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
Yes. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 11:49 AM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Learning Visual Basic with Jaws Dear friends, A student has VB in his course. Is it accessible

Re: [AI] [Bulk] Help: How to open E-Pub file extention?

2015-08-06 Thread Manish Agrawal
You can also use adobe digital editions. It is accessible but I haven't used it much, so, cannot comment on how it compares to other epub readers out there. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of sanjay Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [AI] [VV] Regarding Bloomberg.

2015-07-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
The Bloomberg terminal's contents are accessible with the jaws cursor. I sometimes need to login but don't really have to use the terminal commands or read the output much. I am guessing that you will need to create jaws frames to monitor for changes that are read out to you whenever anything

Re: [AI] Washington Post: At some museums, blind visitors can touch the art

2015-07-16 Thread Manish Agrawal
I visited Some art museums in florance, Italy and had a similar experience. I was able to wear gloves and touch most of the sculptures. They had interestingly created several famous paintings in relief on plaster of paris tablets that they said were very close replicas and that I could touch

Re: [AI] About Wireless Earphone.

2015-06-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
range bone conduction headphones are available? Harish. - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal manis...@gmail.com To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:20 PM Subject: Re

Re: [AI] regarding screen readers for Mac book:

2015-06-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
Voice over is built into the mac os. You can activate it by using command + f5 from anywhere. There is a steep learning curve to the screen reader and you will be better off going through the tutorial that is launched when voice over is started for the first time or by using command + h. IMHO,

Re: [AI] About Wireless Earphone.

2015-06-20 Thread Manish Agrawal
I use the blues2 from aftershocks. These are bone conducting and so, sit in front of the ear and so, both your ears will be free and not just one. These are chordless and accessible for setting up and so on. If you use the blindsquare app on the IPhone, these have a nice integration with the

Re: [AI] nvda not reading the full mail.

2015-05-11 Thread Manish Agrawal
line when up arrow or down arrow is pressed. hope i have made you understand. regards, rajesh - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal manis...@gmail.com To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday

Re: [AI] nvda not reading the full mail.

2015-05-10 Thread Manish Agrawal
havent tried it. regards, rajesh - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal manis...@gmail.com To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled.' accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [AI] nvda not reading the full

Re: [AI] nvda not reading the full mail.

2015-05-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
I use outlook all the time. What is the problem you are running into? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:39 PM To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues

Re: [AI] nvda not reading the full mail.

2015-05-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
Does this happen all the time with all mails or some times with certain specific kind of mails? Does restarting nvda help? Does opening the mail message again help? Does maximizing the message window help? I have also seen this problem occur some time but don't have a specific set of steps to

Re: [AI] Python programming

2015-04-14 Thread Manish Agrawal
I found eclipse with the py-dev extension to be really good. I use it all the time. If you have experience using visual studio, then that is also a fairly accessible python dev environment. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On

Re: [AI] Excel reading problem with jaws

2015-04-14 Thread Manish Agrawal
Nvda will say cell if you have read table coordinates turned off in the document reading preferences. If you turn this option on, NVDA will also announce the cell coordinates like jaws does. This is a more powerful feature since some users need to turn off cell coordinate reading for certain

Re: [AI] 2 Better Than 1? Being A Scribe For A Visually Impaired - Akanksha Mittal.

2015-03-23 Thread Manish Agrawal
While I think the initiative to train more and more students to be independent using computers is a good one, I don't think we can completely eliminate scribes. There are multiple disabilities not just blindness and there will always be students with different abilities and skill with the use

Re: [AI] Fwd: JAWS 16 Released

2014-10-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
I just felt the feature list in the new release doesn't warrant a full version release forcing users to buy another SMA for over $260. The SMA feels more like a subscription fees regardless of any new features or improvements introduced. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia

Re: [AI] Need guidance in choosing between I phone 4s and I phone 5

2014-09-24 Thread Manish Agrawal
It is better to buy at least the iphone 5, if not 5s. There is not much difference in features but the processor on the 5 is better and faster on the newer models. For the newer IOS to function, you need a faster processor. If you install the latest version of IOS on the iphone 4s, there is

Re: [AI] Suggestions for purchasing rugged, durable and noise canceling in-earphone

2014-06-25 Thread Manish Agrawal
Senheiser is good. I can also recommend a bone-conduction headphones called bluez2 from aftershocks. These are wireless (Bluetooth) and are not noise cancelling since they do not cover your ears at all but instead sit just in front of the ear on your cheek bone. I find these useful because

Re: [AI] Audio Labellers

2014-05-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Audio Labellers Hi. Very interesting information. How to determine whether a phone supports NFC or not? Is there any list containing all the phones that can support nfc stickers. What is the full form of NFC? I would appreciate any assistance. On 5/19/14, Manish

Re: [AI] Audio Labellers

2014-05-18 Thread Manish Agrawal
If you use a NFC capable android phone, like the nexus 4 or 5, you can also get the same functionality as that provided by tools like the ones you have mentioned here on your phone. The benefit of using an android app is that you do not need to buy a separate device, remember to keep its

Re: [AI] Guitar notes and tutorials

2014-03-07 Thread Manish Agrawal
Google for Lunar tabs. It is a screen reader friendly guitar learning program. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of subhash chaugule Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 9:54 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject:

Re: [AI] additional subject in class 5th

2014-03-01 Thread Manish Agrawal
Japanese is supported in speech with NVDA for sure. Also, given that there are Japanese refreshable braille display manufacturers out there, I guess braille Japanese is also supported. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On

Re: [AI] Mobile phone

2014-03-01 Thread Manish Agrawal
Interacting with an IVR is fairly hard on android. The primary problems I faced in doing this before I moved from a google nexus to the IPhone were: 1. The option to turn on loud speaker is clumsy and time consuming - most IVRs time out by the time you get the speaker working. 2. The android

Re: [AI] Moderator: Re: Mobile phone

2014-03-01 Thread Manish Agrawal
I responded to the thread without realizing it was on the wrong list. Will be careful in the future. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of harish Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:43 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing

Re: [AI] American Express Card users with thumb impression anyone?

2014-02-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
I have used amex as a corporate card in India and haven't had any such problem. I never told them I am blind. They've probably never had a customer using a thumb impression earlier and so, it is likely they don't really have any process laid out for this. One option can be that you just fill up

[AI] programming ebooks

2013-12-30 Thread Manish Agrawal
A friend came across this site that seems to host a lot of programming books as e-text. I looked at a couple of the books: they were pdf files hosted on google drive. The PDF was readable and doesn’t seem to be just scanned images. I don’t know of the legality of using these books. If you happen

Re: [AI] is Lumia an accessible mobile for the visually challenged.

2013-11-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
Code factory has recently released (or is about to release) a screen reader for the windows phones. This reader is not a full fledged screen reader like voice over or talkback but instead provides access to some of the key functionalities on the phone like dialing, contacts, messages etc.

Re: [AI] A question on options to buy books online.

2013-09-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
Google books are e-books only. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mahesh S. Panicker Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:49 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.

Re: [AI] A question on options to buy books online.

2013-09-18 Thread Manish Agrawal
Google books also sells e-books in India and has Indian pricing. These are accessible on android and IPhone. I haven't tried on the PC. -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Bharat Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:24 AM

Re: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE

2013-09-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
reading software. The team is lead by one of our brightest software developer who himself is a screen reading software user. He is Mr. Manish Agrawal. Manish works full time with Sapient Technologies at very senior knowledge resource and he now gives 40% of his time specifically to the NVDA

Re: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE

2013-09-06 Thread Manish Agrawal
by one of our brightest software developer who himself is a screen reading software user. He is Mr. Manish Agrawal. Manish works full time with Sapient Technologies at very senior knowledge resource and he now gives 40% of his time specifically to the NVDA project. He is supported by one more

Re: [AI] Assistance on Indigo

2013-07-11 Thread Manish Agrawal
Indigo assistance is ok - no better or worse than other airlines. I usually ask for assistance at the check in counter and it works for me...however, letting them know in advance may be useful. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in]

Re: [AI] Fwd: Anybody done snorkelling?

2013-05-12 Thread Manish Agrawal
I did some snorkeling with a guide. It was short and I did it right next to the beach with the guide walking or floating in neck deep water holding my hand. It was fun. However, other than the experience of breathing through a tube under water, accidentally opening my mouth and swallowing lots

Re: [AI] Identifying of Currency notes

2013-01-29 Thread Manish Agrawal
The Google Goggles android app is able to identify Indian currency. I just tried it with some currency notes with my nexus 4. -Manish -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Tara Fakhri Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:08 PM To:

[AI] tactile keyboards for touch screen devices

2013-01-12 Thread Manish Agrawal
This technology seems very promising given that almost all devices are going the touch route: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20970928 Regards, Manish Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on:

Re: [AI] swimming training for the blind

2012-05-03 Thread Manish Agrawal
I tried to learn swimming last year at the Saket sports club. The trainer there was not aware of any special method to teach me but was willing to try out anything I suggested. I didn't get much further than floating though because the pool was rather crowded and I was sure to swim into someone

Re: [AI] accessibility of visual studio

2012-04-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
Aditi, Accessibility has improved significantly for visual studio 2010 with freedom scientific providing jaws support for VS out of the box. I use VS 2010 everyday. Visual studio 2008 is mostly accessible and there are some third party jaws scripts available to help. NVDAworks partially with vs

Re: [AI] [program-l] accessibility of visual studio

2012-04-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
Prateek, What do you find broken in vs 2010? I use 2010 all the time and find the support for 2010 in jaws to be better than in 2008. Regards, Manish -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek

[AI] accessibility in Windows 8

2012-02-17 Thread Manish Agrawal
Came across this on another list. Apologies if this has been posted earlier. This is exciting because windows 8 will be a common platform across windows desktop and mobile devices. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/14/enabling-accessibility.aspx Regards, Manish Search for old postings

[AI] interesting presentation on braille

2011-12-27 Thread Manish Agrawal
I came across this very interesting presentation on braille by Kevin Carey from RNIB. Apologies if this has been posted earlier. Having been a newbie very occasional braille reader for about 4 years now, I couldn't agree more with everything here, most of all the need for cheaper braille displays.

Re: [AI] converting text books to brail

2011-12-27 Thread Manish Agrawal
Vinod, You could contact people from the daisy forum of India, or NAB, or NIVH or almost all other NGOs working in the field of blindness with your specific requirements. There is an effort underway to create a common library of text books so that your local NGO could print/emboss the books you

Re: [AI] Date picker on Yatra.com?

2011-10-02 Thread Manish Agrawal
for this. -Manish -Original Message- From: Manish Agrawal [mailto:manis...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:03 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: RE: [AI] Date picker on Yatra.com? As another person below said, here are the steps to access the date on yatra

Re: [AI] White cane tips

2011-10-01 Thread Manish Agrawal
I think it'll be really useful. I, for one, am one of those who just picked up a white cane and started using it really late in life and haven't recieved any formal mobility training so far - just some useful tips from other blind white cane users. Will appreciate anything in this direction.

Re: [AI] Date picker on Yatra.com?

2011-09-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
As another person below said, here are the steps to access the date on yatra: 1. get focus to the date field and enter forms mode. 2. hit ins + ; to switch off forms mode (can also be done in several other ways). 3. hit t to find the next table on the page. You will get to the current month

Re: [AI] Topics for convention

2011-08-14 Thread Manish Agrawal
Harish, I couldn't figure out how to register online from the link given in your mail. Is this not working yet or am I missing something? -Manish -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Harish Kotian

Re: [AI] Map data for Ovi maps

2011-04-22 Thread Manish Agrawal
E72. It is working fine. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Manish Agrawal Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:12 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Map data for Ovi maps

Re: [AI] Map data for Ovi maps

2011-04-21 Thread Manish Agrawal
Pranay, Your map data works well on ovi maps 3.01 on my n79 as well. Thanks a ton for this. Until I put this on my phone, I couldn't plot a route any bigger than 6 to 8 KM because of low memory or bandwidth or whatever, ovi maps used to just crash. But now, with the maps you provided, I don't face

Re: [AI] help needed: for using escalators

2011-04-11 Thread Manish Agrawal
I just keep walking holding on to the sighted person's elbow as I normally would. Once you get on an escalator, you have a few seconds before the platform you are on starts going up or down at which point, you usually have to adjust your foot a few inches forward or backward. I usually end up one

Re: [AI] ABBYY with windows 7 64bit

2011-02-28 Thread Manish Agrawal
Yes. -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dr. TVGNS Sudhakar Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:36 PM To: Acces India Subject: [AI] ABBYY with windows 7 64bit Dear all, I would like to ask a

Re: [AI] Symbian must stay petition

2011-02-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
I would be more willing to sign a windows Phone 7 must be made accessible before Symbian is shut down petition (if one exists) rather than this one. I don't see anything wrong in the business decision of a company to move to a different platform so long as accessibility is ensured. Also, WP7

Re: [AI] The guide on the phone

2011-02-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
Every time I visited a museum or tourist spot in the US with the audio described exhibits, I wished it to be introduced in India. Very happy to read this! It gives a whole new meaning to a blind person's museum tour. I hope they also keep some practical aspects of implementing this in mind - for

Re: [AI] Excel query, very urgent

2011-02-12 Thread Manish Agrawal
Do a Paste special instead of paste and select value only. You will get the paste special command in the right click context menu and under the edit menu in excel. -Manish -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On

Re: [AI] Statistical Packages Accessibility

2010-12-24 Thread Manish Agrawal
I believe there were scripts for SAS as well. The jaws scripts mailing list may be a good place to ask. I used SAS a couple of years ago very briefly and was able to get around without scripts for my very basic requirements. For anything serious, you'll definitely need scripts. -Manish

Re: [AI] Induction Cooker

2010-07-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hi, Aman (my wife) and I did get an opportunity to use an induction cooking range for a few weeks some time ago (don't know the make or model)thought will share my experience with the group. While it is true that the cooking stove was actually very safe and Aman would not freak out every time

Re: [AI] Induction Cooker

2010-07-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
the same way when cooking on an induction cooker, or is it concentrated at the bottom of the pan? Also, does the outer surface of the pan remain cool when food is being cooked? Is it possible to remove a pan from the hob without using gloves? Geetha - Original Message - From: Manish

Re: [AI] Urgent help needed regarding iPhone 3GS

2010-07-07 Thread Manish Agrawal
Letters are located in a qwerty layout as if on a regular keyboard on the iphone screen. With a little practice, you'll get faster at locating them. However, I still think it is slower than a tactile keypad. -Manish -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in

Re: [AI] Urgent help needed regarding iPhone 3GS

2010-07-03 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hi Subramani, I also tried using say text with my IPhone 3gs but never get it to click automatically. I am using the following instructions: Place the phone in about the middle of the page and lift it slowly up until the entire page is in focus and the program will automatically click a picture of

Re: [AI] TED talks on inclusive planet

2010-05-19 Thread Manish Agrawal
Ted has some really amazing content. Great job on getting it on inclusive planet. A word about the flash players...I couldn't use the b and f keys while the video was playing as was suggested in the instructions on the site. I also tried with doing a key pass through in jaws but that seemed to

Re: [AI] Any member using JAWS with remote access

2010-05-13 Thread Manish Agrawal
What is the nature of your problem? I've used remote jaws with an xp client and win2k3 server over remote desktop (never tried it with citrics). Did you reach out to freedom scientific support? They are usually able to sort out any config issues you may be having. -Manish -Original

Re: [AI] doubt in Excel with Jaws

2010-05-03 Thread Manish Agrawal
alt +ctrl +insert + c marks the values in a row as column headers alt + ctrl + insert + r marks the values in a row as row headers. So, in your case, go to the A1 cell and press alt + ctrl + insert + c and then when you move from b4 to a4, the value in the cell A1 will be spoken as the heading in

Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text

2010-04-30 Thread Manish Agrawal
doesn't using pitch to distinguish caps help you? Back in the day when I used to do a lot of proof reading as an editor for technical documents, I had set up pitch for caps during continuous reading and say cap during word by word and character navigation. I don't necessarily remember how I set it

Re: [AI] Weblinks not opening

2010-04-04 Thread Manish Agrawal
You probably have some malware remnant or the tool you used was never correctly uninstalled as you have said. You can try another tool (I recently used vipre) to see if that helps. Otherwise, write to stopzilla support forum or something. Also try reinstalling stopzilla and uninstalling it the

Re: [AI] Visually impaired people investing in mutual funds

2010-03-15 Thread Manish Agrawal
As you've already said in your mail, I use an online account for this. -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Eyeway Helpdesk Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:37 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in

Re: [AI] Accessible gps comparison

2010-02-27 Thread Manish Agrawal
. On 27 Feb 2010, at 11:38 AM, Manish Agrawal manis...@gmail.com wrote: Similar to my earlier comment on pointing people to the source of where you are quoting from, most of the text below seems to have come from the cnet review at: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39030106,49302553-2,00

Re: [AI] RSS Feeds was: web brouser in ubuntu

2010-02-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
It is usually a good idea to point people to the source of where you are quoting from. E.g. in this case, you seem to have copied the text from http://www.whatisrss.com/ This way people will be able to explore the topic further on their own. -Manish -Original Message- From:

Re: [AI] Accessible gps comparison

2010-02-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
Similar to my earlier comment on pointing people to the source of where you are quoting from, most of the text below seems to have come from the cnet review at: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39030106,49302553-2,00.htm Even if it was you who wrote the original review (which in this case is

Re: [AI] those who are attending the techshare india 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Manish Agrawal
Manish I went through the link you gave. Could not figure out what this device is all about and what it can do etc. Would you please give some insight of it. Harish. - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal manis...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, February 12

Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison

2010-02-20 Thread Manish Agrawal
A couple more things: 1. Not all internal receivers are poor. On newer phones like nokia n79 and the apple iphone, the internal receivers are just as good and sometimes even better than external receivers. Internal receivers are able to use a technology called a-gps (which uses data from mobile

Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison

2010-02-20 Thread Manish Agrawal
Someone says below:snip I've used some here in India but most of the times I never got any valid GPS signals at all, which force me to use Internet connection./snip GPS signals are provided by satellites that are equally available in all parts of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps At

Re: [AI] those who are attending the techshare india 2010

2010-02-11 Thread Manish Agrawal
Pranav and I will be on one of the booths presenting the tactile mouse -- an alpha/concept product from http://www.tactile-world.com Do drop by to chat. -Manish -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of

Re: [AI] Draft petition to the railway Minister

2010-02-10 Thread Manish Agrawal
Harish, The draft looks useful. Here are some of my suggestions: 1. The sequence of items mentioned in the draft should be based on how important we feel each of those to be. The first 2 points about concessions to me are less important than the safety and ease of travel for disabled passengers

Re: [AI] Accessing the continue link in HDFC Bank's third partyfunds transfer pages

2010-02-07 Thread Manish Agrawal
Pranav, A long shot: try an older version of jaws. I can see some links on Web pages with jaws 10 that I cannot see with jaws 11 -- this apparently has to do with some defaults related to graphics size settings being different between the 2 versions of jaws. Alternatively, you could try

Re: [AI] Problems pertaining to disability certificates

2010-01-25 Thread Manish Agrawal
One problem I am facing right now and I believe others are likely to face in the near future is related to the form 10-IA required for availing tax rebate under section 80U. Until last year, I had been submitting a certificate issued by AIIMS for the 80U deduction. However, this year the accounts

Re: [AI] VMWare;Vurtual box etc, which one is accessible?

2009-08-07 Thread Manish Agrawal
I've used VMware and find it to be fairly accessible. Make sure that you set up the sound card correctly on your virtual machines so that you can install and run jaws on them. By default, the basic machine image has the sound option turned off. I have used virtual machines installed on several

Re: [AI] Help required

2009-01-16 Thread Manish Agrawal
using alt + n usually brings up the menu in the information bar, which has the context specific options like allowing a popup or allowing download of a file etc. HTH. On 1/13/09, sabari priya sabari...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sir, How can I access the information bar? If there is any problem

Re: [AI] a way finder access experience on a trip to Jaipurr

2009-01-07 Thread Manish Agrawal
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kulkarni Suresh G kulkarnisures...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Which make? What would the cost. - Original Message - From: Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com To: r_akshi_...@yahoo.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:39 AM

[AI] Math OCR and math reading - InftyReader

2008-11-26 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hi, I recently ran into the problem of needing to read some books on algorithms. I had several books available in pdf and html formats and a couple as hard copies that I scanned manually. The problem with all these books was that they had a lot of math symbols and equations that I could not get

Re: [AI] Introducing way-finder-access

2008-11-02 Thread Manish Agrawal
You can get a demo for 10 days. Also, as I use the software, I am realizing that not all phones may be equally suited to work well for this. e.g. my nokia 6600 looses gprs connectivity intermittently after a few minutes of use. Restarting the phone seems to fix the problem for some time. This may

Re: [AI] Screen readers for I-pods

2008-10-10 Thread Manish Agrawal
I use rockbox, which is an open source firmware for several MP3 players that allows you to have all the menus and commands on the player become self-voicing and allows the creation of voice tags for all music files and folders that you copy to the device -- effectively acting as a screen reader.

Re: [AI] Convention feedback

2008-09-27 Thread Manish Agrawal
Hi all, I wanted to express my gratitude to Harish, Kanchan and everyone who organized and attended this convention. It was an enriching experience for me. It was inspiring to meet so many achievers and so much talent all at the same place. i found most of the sessions facinating -- starting from

Re: [AI] SBI and online banking

2008-09-18 Thread Manish Agrawal
I have a savings a/c in SBI and use the online banking. It seems to be sufficiently accessible. I haven't had a chance to get an ATM issued because I opened this a/c long ago when ATMs were not common and I don't use this a/c regularly to need one. I have never had problems with check books and

Re: [AI] Using virtual keyboard with Jaws

2008-09-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
Citibank uses images for the virtual keyboard without alt text for those images. HSBC provides alt text for the images in the virtual keyboard. I find it convenient to switch the document presentation to screen layout in jaws options while using the HSBC virtual keyboard -- saves me a lot of

Re: [AI] Using virtual keyboard with Jaws

2008-09-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
card provider and not by Citibank. This is blatant falsehood.Also, the numbers on the virtual keyboard are labeled, but the alphabets are not. Geetha - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3

Re: [AI] Bank Guidelines

2008-07-05 Thread Manish Agrawal
Did some googling to find out what others in the world do about this. Affixing seals appears to be the favoured mechanism as per the following discussion thread - with people from the US, Japan, China etc.: http://www.washington.edu/doit/Newsletters/May06/16.html Pasting below for people who have

Re: [AI] Suggestions requested for the convention

2008-07-03 Thread Manish Agrawal
1. Discussion of mobility trainings/aids for the blind and what can we do to make our cities more accessible. 2. Possibility of guide dogs in India. 3. Discussion on research opportunities (both technology and human) and ways of involving educational institutions like engineering colleges and

Re: [AI] Help regarding career

2008-05-09 Thread Manish Agrawal
The materials are also not such a problem actually. A lot of the subjects covered in MCA (and I am assuming BCA) use books by international authors. A lot of these books are available from RFBD and similar libraries (so, find a way of sourcing your materials from there). I was able to get most

Re: [AI] not reading in word

2008-04-15 Thread Manish Agrawal
it reads by paragraphs and sentence but not with simple down arrow command. in rft format also this limitation is experienced. now what's the solution? - Original Message - From: Manish Agrawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:09 PM Subject

Re: [AI] JAWS Compability with Vista

2008-02-24 Thread Manish Agrawal
I use jaws 9 with vista business. It works ok mostly. However, it doesn't deal very well with the new transparent windows introduced in vista and sometimes ends up reading the contents of the window behind the one in the foreground (specially with the jaws cursor). Sometimes, the alt+tab

Re: [AI] Policy urgent

2008-02-18 Thread Manish Agrawal
I've pasted below the sections on which I have comments along with my comments marked with [MA] -Manish 2. Examination Form/Application a. All Application Forms/Advertisements for exams should mention that a Visually Disabled candidate will be allowed the use of a Scribe and alternative

Re: [AI] How do I increase my fluency in spoken english?

2008-02-10 Thread Manish Agrawal
Also, read read and read (anything from fiction to news and whatever else you can lay your hands on)...to add to what geetha says :) reading good english improves vocabulary and grammar and you find out about different ways of saying the same thing (I am sure I knew a single word for this).

Re: [AI] Jaws support for oracle

2008-02-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
do you have the java access bridge installed? The access bridge helps somewhat in case of the oracle db tools. I am guessing it may help in the erp tools as well. Also write to oracle support directly...you may need to follow up a lot but it may help in the longer term. -Manish -Original

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