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non commercial conversion and distribution should not require payment to rights holders keeping in mind the cost and effort taken in such conversion and distribution we also believe that rights holders must be compensated for commercial conversion and distribution the treaty proposed by brazil ecuador mexico and paraguay provides for these two options we believe that this system will incentivize rights holders to convert and sell material in accessible formats at affordable prices which we believe is the only long term solution to solving the book famine 4 lastly we believe that for profit entities who wish to undertake conversion on a not for profit basis must be permitted to do so it has been our experience in india that large corporations wish to convert material into accessible formats as part of their corporate social responsibility initiatives on a non commercial basis this must be encouraged the treaty proposed by brazil ecuador mexico and paraguay provides for this we believe that any proposal that does not recognize the roles that can be played by for profit entities is limited and will not contribute to long term solutions in short mr chairman the ground realities in india and other developing countries are completely different from those in the united states and in europe in india and other developing countries people with disabilities need all the help we can get from all parties willing to help any proposal that recognizes only intermediaries as part of the solution will be of extremely limited impact in india we believe that the treaty for the blind visually impaired and other reading disabled proposed by brazil ecuador mexico and paraguay is the proposal which addresses the needs of persons with disabilities in developing countries we urge member states to support the treaty proposed by brazil ecuador mexico and paraguay if any meaningful change is to be made to the lives of millions of persons with disabilities around the world and especially in developing countries including india to read more about the other treaties see comparison of the four proposals on disabilities at wipo sccr posted in important announcement policy tagged treaty for the blind vision ip wipo 2 comments accessibility standards destination or waypoint june 22 2010 by reuben for the technology practitioner who works in the area of getting her solutions to work well for a diverse audience there are a few related but often ambiguous terms that float around accessibility usability design for those of us who are particularly concerned about ensuring that web applications fit the needs of an audience with different faculties there are a set of standards that are laid out that presumably will tell us how to do this the question often comes up is it worth the effort following standards like the w3c wcag standard there is a profusion of articles on the web that detail how standards compliance can be achieved and there are organizations who will help you the web asset owner get to standards compliance what is often not that clear is the question of what will wcag compliance do for my users how will my web asset benefit from this exercise does wcag compliance mean that all users can use my web site equitably focusing on the wcag standard as an example the standards body has stated that the goal of defining how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities the standards body has decided i believe consciously to not precisely define accessibility also note the comparative term more accessible is chosen instead of a more absolute or superlative term there is an air of tentativeness which again i would think is a conscious choice there are a few more factors to consider standards in its final form often represent less than the state of the art in technology due to the long life cycle of the standards process itself this is also clear from the facts that often even as a particular standard is in the stages of approval work on the next standards commences standards bodies often need to come up with a least common denominator in its specification and in the interest of expediency generally have to choose to ignore complicated or controversial issues some of the issues related to accessibility are so entwined in issues of usability and design that it is difficult to make concrete standards without making assumptions about the nature of use of the system the faculty set of the user and other environmental factors in the continuum of accessibility usability design the standards are only able to address the safe generalities than the highly variable specifics the points above should not be read as criticisms of standards but merely as an observation of the facts now switching over to the practice side take the classic cases where a web or digital asset owner takes the steps towards ensuring diversity she is often driven by one or more of the following social and values based reasons csr for companies social pressure for individuals i care about diversity and want to make sure that there are no barriers in my organization for people with a non standard set of faculties i have a digital asset and want to come across to others as someone who cares about diversity regulatory and legal i need to comply to the accessibility rules regulations laws of my country state association in relation to and if i don t there is a possible negative consequence commercial i or one of my customers have or will have an audience or customers that is diverse and needs accessibility i or one of my customers need to show some others that we are accessible so that we can get some new business i or one of my customers deal exclusively with a segment that have a non standard set of faculties that have accessibility implications and our offering needs to be precisely tailored for them consider the various cases above while clearly not an exhaustive treatment of all possible cases you can see 2 significant flavors i need to convince a certain constituency that my digital asset is accessible i need to make my digital asset as accessible usable and appropriate as possible to one or more specific class of users with non standards faculties in both these cases standards compliance is a requirement for case 2 above however the asset owner would be ill advised to stop at standards compliance and should consider additional steps to put forth the best possible offering from accessibility usability and design standpoints for the specific audience s in mind so here goes the stake in the ground we believe that standards compliance is a necessary but not sufficient condition for ensuring best possible levels of accessibility we do believe that current standards ensure a high degree of accessibility however we believe that there are additional steps that can and should be taken to allow a person with a non standard set of faculties the best possible experience with a web site or application posted in accessibility geekable inclusive planet vision standards technology wcag 2 0 web development 3 comments experience blindness a simple screen reader experience for the sighted part 1 may 18 2010 by reuben ever wondered how a person with a visual impairment uses a computer surf the web read a book or an article i know many people who shy away from asking these questions the important thing is to realise that there s no harm in asking these questions the real harm is in not bothering to find the answers to these questions a request to our visually impaired readers please pass this article on to all your sighted friends and dear sighted readers walk with me through this simple simulation of the experience of a visually impaired person the most popular specialized software program used by people with visual impairments to consume electronic content documents web pages and other computer programs is a type of computer software known as a screen reader the screen reader has two major functions navigation and text to speech tts a screen reader aids in navigation by guiding the user in moving from one page to the other from one paragraph to the other and so on it aids in tts by converting electronic text to sound basically it reads out text the biggest stumbling block for screen reader software are programs and content that is difficult for navigation a large majority of computer programs and electronic content that are used by the visually impaired are created by sighted people programmers content writers editors etc if you happen to fall into this category of very powerful people and if you are unfamiliar with screen readers i would definitely encourage you to try this little experiment now if you don t you might still want to do it because it can open your eyes a little bit into an unfamiliar world all you need is a computer working eyes and an old newspaper here you go turn on your computer browse to google news or your favorite online haunt or open a large word document now get an old newspaper take one full sheet and open it up make a rectangular incision 3 inches long and half inch wide at the center of the paper with both hands hold this newspaper against and in front of your computer display so that you can see the screen through the rectangular hole now start reading through the hole move the paper to the right to continue reading try to jump to sections that you are interested in by moving the paper around read the whole page rinse and repeat with familiar and unfamiliar pages that s it hope you enjoyed the experience now we need some feedback from you how easy was it to find something that you are looking to read what would have made it easier to find what you were looking for is the experience different between familiar and unfamiliar pages how would you change the design of your document site application after your experience of carrying out this experiment posted in accessibility assistive technology geekable screen reader technology web development 8 comments campaign for amendment to copyright laws in india may 2 2010 by ujjvala ballal update as on may 1 2010 after our last post on the right to read campaign on april 15th the copyright amendment was introduced in the rajya sabha on april 19 th the bad news is that the amendment still contained the same disastrous wording which would effectively prevent ngos educational institutions and persons with disabilities from converting reading material including textbooks and reference material into audio digital formats and other formats that can be used by persons with disabilities to read such material the extremely cumbersome restrictive and lengthy licensing procedure proposed by the government for conversion to these formats would mean that students with print disabilities would be deprived of their right to education which has now become a fundamental right now for the good news the bjp and the left parties have gone on record endif that they will oppose the amendment unless the concerns of the visually impaired community are addressed members of the national access alliance including sam taraporevala kanchan pamnani s k rungta dipendra manocha and ketan kothari met senior leaders of the bjp including shri l k advani shri arun jaitely and smt sushma swaraj who understood our concerns and were extremely sympathetic nirmita narasimhan from the centre for internet and society if supportfootnotes and i met smt brinda karat who was extremely sympathetic and supportive mrs karat spent close to an hour understanding the issues involved and fixed up a meeting for us with shri oscar fernandes congress mp and head of the standing committee that will examine the copyright amendment she also informed us that she has spoken to mr arun jaitely on this issue and that they would jointly oppose the amendment shri fernandes was also extremely sympathetic and supportive and assured us that we would get an opportunity to be heard when the matter came up for discussion we also met two members of the standing committee mr biju cpi m mp from kerala and mr penumalli madhu cpi m mp from andhra pradesh mr biju said he would definitely help when this matter comes up for discussion since he believed it is a just cause mr madhu was even more receptive to the idea and said he would circulate the note which we had given to all the members of the standing committee and also write a letter strongly recommending this case to the prime minister and the standing committee mr javed abidi india s most famous and accomplished disability rights activist took nirmita and me to the prime minister s office where we met joint secretary mr sanjay mitra who promised to put our note to the prime minister last but not least over the last 2 weeks this initiative has got some great press coverage from socially conscious journalists from around the country we now have to prepare for submitting evidence to the standing committee when the hearings start we understand that this will happen within the next 3 months let us keep our fingers crossed if you would like to contribute to this effort mail me at rahul cherian inclusiveplanet com update as on may 1 2010 after our last post on the right to read campaign on april 15th the copyright amendment was introduced in the rajya sabha on april 19 th the bad news is that the amendment still contained the same disastrous wording which would effectively prevent ngos educational institutions and persons with disabilities from converting reading material including textbooks and reference material into audio digital formats and other formats that can be used by persons with disabilities to read such material the extremely cumbersome restrictive and lengthy licensing procedure proposed by the government for conversion to these formats would mean that students with print disabilities would be deprived of their right to education which has now become a fundamental right now for the good news the bjp and the left parties have gone on the record that they will oppose the amendment unless the concerns of the visually impaired community are addressed members of the national access alliance including sam taraporevala kanchan pamnani s k rungta dipendra manocha and ketan kothari met senior leaders of the bjp including shri l k advani shri arun jaitely and smt sushma swaraj who understood our concerns and were extremely sympathetic nirmita narasimhan from the centre for internet and society and i met smt brinda karat who extremely sympathetic and supportive mrs karat spent close to an hour understanding the issues involved and fixed up a meeting for us with shri oscar fernandes congress mp and head of the standing committee that will examine the copyright amendment she also informed us that she has spoken to mr arun jaitely on this issue and that they would jointly oppose the amendment shri fernandes was also extremely sympathetic and supportive and assured us that we would get an opportunity to be heard when the matter came up for discussion ...