Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Can you share the tool with us? On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని ॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామభివర్ధతాం॥ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani. Thank you, Regardsm Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani. Thank you, Regardsm Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop -- With Regards, Anoop ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported. - Bengali - Gujarati - Hindi - Kannada - Malayalam - Marathi - Oriya - Punjabi - Tamil - Telugu More important thing is, the respective language community need to take some interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that language. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani. Thank you, Regardsm Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop -- With Regards, Anoop ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Anoop, Shiju, Thank you for the link(s) and the update. This is good news for us Indic wikipedians. --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported. - Bengali - Gujarati - Hindi - Kannada - Malayalam - Marathi - Oriya - Punjabi - Tamil - Telugu More important thing is, the respective language community need to take some interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that language. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani. Thank you, Regardsm Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop -- With Regards, Anoop ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Hoi, I blogged about this quite recently. There is however quite some distance between being visually impairred and being blind. Some people I know are helped with specific fonts that are BIG and/or coloured . The consequence is that he uses different fonts and has them coloured. When I get his emails, I always adjust them to something that is nice on my eyes. As we are developing the WebFonts extension, it would be awesome when it is tested what font works best for the visually impaired. NB it is possible to include Dhvani as an extension in MediaWiki. This may happen when you test it and ask for it on Bugzilla Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/04/roar-for-wikipedia-in-india.html On 26 April 2011 10:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Anoop, Shiju, Thank you for the link(s) and the update. This is good news for us Indic wikipedians. --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported. - Bengali - Gujarati - Hindi - Kannada - Malayalam - Marathi - Oriya - Punjabi - Tamil - Telugu More important thing is, the respective language community need to take some interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that language. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani. Thank you, Regardsm Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software. If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it. Shiju Alex On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop -- With Regards, Anoop ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Thanks for the update. Here is the page for Dhvani. http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ It is an amazing tool indeed. And Silpa http://silpa.org.in/ is a source base of many interesting stuff, thanks a lot Santhosh and team. Santhosh was introdcing me to the webfont project few days back, they work indeed great, few small glitches to be fixed, and then it's ready to be published. And languages like Odia which have rendering problem in XP Mac will be really usable by more people. * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai http://thirdeyetvg.com . They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. On 26 April 2011 20:41, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: in Kerala , I have seen many people visually challenged people accessing wikipedia (english hindi wikipedia's) throughout the state using orca+festival with the training provided by INSIGHT .a joint project of state IT mission a non profit group SPACE this is the project website http://insight.kerala.gov.in/about/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai http://thirdeyetvg.com . They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- [It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information. - Donald Knuth ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. The project i mentioned is not limited to wikipedia. It is more on e-accessibility level. And the attention received for Kanija encyclopedia , just by using a Text to Speech system(TTS) implies theneed of lobbying on E-accessibility policies to make Free Knowledge available for Indian Population India has a phenomenally large percentage of disabled persons. Aproximately 6% of the population has a disability. An additional 34% of the population is illiterate and an additional 77 million are elderly (as per 2001 Census). The largest democracy in the world cannot afford to exclude this significant a chunk of its population from participating in the life of the country, which is increasingly intertwined with the Internet. Such exclusion is contrary to the Indian Constitution which guarantees to its Citizens a Right to receive information. The Freedom of Speech and Expression enshrined in Art. 19(1) (a) is inclusive of the right to receive information. This right extends to receiving speech that is of a commercial nature as well. India is signatory to the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006 (UNCRPD) and the Biwako Millennium Framework Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, 2002 In my perception a policy on E-accessibility on webComputers must cover Free Knowledge available to all in accessible formats, including offline access (in the lines of WMF's vision) , Localised Interfaces Free Technologies supporting Local language( Text to speech, speech to text etc , and indic on web Projects) , Open standards ( WCAG 2.0 Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/) and Trainings in FOSS based accessibility tools for Disabled for ensuring e-accessibility A process for building a national e-accessibility Policy is in place. Groups like Centre for Internet Society is pushing WCAG 2.0 adoption to that If WMF can involve in this work by highlighting the link between E-accessibility , and Free Knowledge Resources , it will be an interesting step. Anivar ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
