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Monday, 25 October 2010

Web Accessibility Initiative in India: Technology, Standards and Implementation workshop

Posted on 03:49 by Unknown

W3C India office and Yahoo! India Research & Development is organizing a Workshop on Web Accessibility Initiative
in India: Technology, Standards and Implementation on 11 December
2010, Bangalore. Workshop would provide the technology developers, web
service and solution providers, Policy makers, NGOs and users a unique
platform for understanding the common needs and implementation issues.

The special focus of workshop will be on multilingual requirements in
web accessibility area and capturing the requirements for Indian
languages as per W3C WCAG 2.0 Standards.

The details of the workshop may be referred at: http://www.w3cindia.in/wai_conf/waiweb.html .

The workshop is free of Cost and the last date for registration is 25th November 2010.

Topics to be Covered in Workshop

W3C and Web Accessibility Initiative

Overview of Web accessibilty and role of W3C Standards

WCAG 2.0

WAI-Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0

Web Accessibility Status in India

Challenges Multilingual web Access

Adoption of W3C WCAG 2.0

Guidelines for Indian Government websites-Roadmap from Web Accessibility respective and Accessibility of PDF and OFFICE documents

Certification,Compliance and Evaluation tools

Casestudy : Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Emerging Technology and Web Accessibility Implications

HTML 5.0 and Accessibility

Mobile Web and Accessibility

Accessibility Issues for Next Generation Devices

Technology Development for Multilingual Accessibility in India

TTS In Indian Languages

Braille Interface in Indian Language

Business and Strategic Perspective of Web Accessibility

Industry Session

Summary and Recommendations

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Monday, 9 November 2009

Protospace Bangalore, A creative space for artists

Posted on 06:03 by Unknown

Some creative endeavors start in the most unlikely places. For me it was waiting for my turn to bat. With my thick glasses and diminutive size I was the lowest in batting order of our gully cricket team. I would spend most of time perched on the moss covered walls along the boundary line. It wasn't that bad. I turned my creative prowess to covering the walls in chalk graffiti. Primitive cricket scoreboards, insults and expletives addressed to no-one in particular and in the height of my creative fervor I produced a simian that looked like a classmate of mine. The later did landed me in great deal of trouble. The boys mother stormed my house in such fury which is quite uncommon in mid summer. My good-for-nothing uncle number three came to my rescue, for which I am still grateful. I often buy him a bottle sometimes when visit home.

Though my nascent career in mural arts was snipped at bud on that fateful evening. I kept on scribbling through math classes in high school. In college, it helped me pull through dreadful lectures on supply and demand. It seemed my interest to be always in short supply. The only consolation in this unproductive part of my life, I lived life my way. From hazy dorm rooms and to my own digs in the city, Art was everywhere in the chaos of my lodgings. The spatter of ketchup (or was that curry) on the far side of the wall was inspired by Jackson Pollock. And the CD's spread on the floor among the books was straight out of Salvador Dali's 'La persistencia de la memoria'.

Looking back now, I feel a loss of those personal creative spaces and collaborations that started with rolling of a joint. Visiting Protospace filled me with some hope, perhaps all is not lost. Good luck and thank you for having me protospace team!.

Posted in art, bangalore, india, travel | No comments

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

PyCon India 2009

Posted on 06:05 by Unknown

Most action happens on conference sidelines PyCon India 2009 is no expection. You can always watch the recordings of talks later on. Catching up with friends comes first. Sharing ideas about projects, events and just talking all things geek. Good to hear that Santhosh was interested about integrating dhvani with speech dispatcher for Orca screen reader. Sharing experiences of working with non-profits with Sayamindu and talking about accessibility issues on OLPC SUGAR. And exploring possibilities of doing Ubuntu Karmic release parties in Chennai and Bangalore with Parthan (technofreak), Renuka and Debayan.

I did catch few of the lectures of Ramakrishna on Enterprise Linux, Parthan and the presentation by the FOSSEE team.

Parthan Python newbie talk

The Mallu Gang !

Praveen shows his Android G2

Baij T-shirt with topsy turvy logo

What's Reappy ?

Jinesh checking out Samsung mobile (Q2?)

Hiran hacking my T-shirt with a pen :)

The Food was Good!

Where are the crowds ? Ah! 75 students took off to see the city!

Prabhu Ramchandran charms the crowds

The feedback !

Posted in accessibility, android, bangalore, dhvani, events, free software, india, OLPC, orca, python, travel | No comments

Saturday, 23 May 2009

National Workshop on Web Accessibility, Bangalore June 2009

Posted on 04:40 by Unknown

Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been a forerunner in advocating for a national policy for electronic and web accessibility for persons with disabilities. In addition to seeking a policy reform in this matter, we are also bolstering our advocacy efforts by organising trainings and workshops at no cost for web developers across the country to spread awareness and build capacity in this area in both the public as well as the private sectors. Our first workshop, which was organised jointly with UN Solution Exchange and supported by the NIXI, took place in Ghaziabad earlier this year.

We are organising our second workshop on web accessibility for developers at Bangalore from June 5th-7th, 2009. The workshop will take place at the CIS office on Cunningham Road. Registration is free of charge. If you or any of your colleagues are involved in developing websites and are interested in making your websites accessible to all
groups in society, including persons with disabilities (approximately 71 million Indians and 6% of the total world population), please register for this workshop at the earliest.

The trainers are experts in this field from Delhi and Bangalore and have been working in the field of accessibility for many years.

For more information and registration, please mail Nirmita Narasimhan:nirmita@cis-india.org or call: 080 40926283.

http://cis-india.org/events/national-workshop-on-web-accessibility-june-2009

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Saturday, 13 December 2008

RMS Visit to Bangalore

Posted on 18:22 by Unknown

sujith shares his experiences during the Stallman's visit to Bangalore and captures the event with his Canon PowerShot A720 IS camera powered by free software (CHDK ) !
Read the RMS visit to Bangalore post on his Core Dump blog