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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: ,
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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Right to Read, Now in Mumbai
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 10, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:46 AM — filed under:
The third phase of the 'Right to Read' campaign in India held in Mumbai was coordinated by the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The Mumbai Phase of the Right to Read Campaign was launched on 1st January 2010 and ran till the 27th of January 2010.
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Web Accessibility as a Government Mandate?
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 26, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:46 AM — filed under:
Is Web accessibility just a Government Mandate? Should private sites be ignored? Wesolowski examines this in light of the steps taken by ictQATAR to make its website accessible to W3C standards, and hopes that Qatar and eventually all other Arab nations will follow suit and make Web accessibility much more of a mandate.
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Blog Entry Copyright Law as a tool for Inclusion
by Rahul Cherian — published Mar 30, 2010 — last modified Feb 20, 2013 11:04 AM — filed under:
Can Copyright Law be used as a tool for Inclusion? Rahul Cherian examines this in his blog on copyright.
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e-Accessibility: A Wiki Project
by Rebecca Schild — published Apr 04, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM — filed under: ,
Envisaged and funded by the National Internet Exchange of India, and executed by the Centre for Internet and Society, a Wiki site pertaining to issues of disability and e-accessibility has recently been launched.
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Meeting on National Policy for e-Access for All
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Oct 31, 2008 — last modified Aug 26, 2011 05:13 AM — filed under: , ,
The world over, there is a move towards making the internet more accessible for persons with visual and print disabilities and for elderly persons. Many countries like the USA and UK have adopted legislation to make adherence to web accessibility standards mandatory. In India we are still relatively unaware of the importance of web accessibility. On Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 am, the Centre for Internet and Society will host a meeting at the CIS office to discuss strategies and a plan of action to launch a campaign for making web content accessibility standards mandatory in India.
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First Meeting on a National Policy for Web Accessibility
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 07, 2008 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:38 AM — filed under: , ,
The first meeting to discuss having a national policy for web accessibility to ensure universal and inclusive participation was held at the Centre for Internet and Society's office on 7 November 2008. It was aimed at formulating an action plan to work with the government and other private and public bodies to ensure conformity to accessibility standards for web sites.
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Accessibility Test Results: Government and Other Popular Websites
by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Nov 27, 2008 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:50 AM — filed under:
The CIS conducted some automated accessibility tests on a few Government web sites, including that of the National Informatics Centre, and on the web sites of some banks, medical and educational institutions. This is a report of the results.
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Report on the Internet Governance Forum
by Sanchia de Souza — published Dec 11, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM — filed under: ,
CIS attended the UN Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, December 3-7, 2008.
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Follow-up Letter in Support of WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled
by Sanchia de Souza — published Jun 12, 2009 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:43 AM — filed under:
CIS has sent another letter to the Department of Higher Education, Ministry for Human Resource Development, petitioning it to support the WIPO Treaty for the reading disabled.
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