Exibition of items like computer education programme, Brail books, Computing tools for maths, Musical instruments, Educational tools ect. Chess and cricket demo and inter action between Visually challenged and other students and general awareness promotion for sighted person.
Course Outline
Day 1
Technical Writing Basics
What is communication
Factors affecting communication
Types of documents
Document Development Life Cycle
Mapping of DDLC with SDLC
Writing process in detail
US and UK English
Proof-reading marks
Day 2
Training in Microsoft Word
Introduction to MS Word
Components of a document
Typography page setup, headers, footers
Defining styles
Creating templates
Autotext Entries
Using Drawing Tools
Word power features
Over the years accessibility has emerged as a vital concept for developing technology. The reason being advancement in technology, the number of users is increasing by the minute. These users also include people with disabilities, which is a potential market. Accessibility has been able to make a mark due to the various laws and standards that have been enforced such as ADA, Section 508, and WCAG.
Net Systems Informatics announces one-day workshop on Designing Accessible Websites.
For more information contact Kasumigaura Organising Committee
BlindArt invites all artists in all media to submit work that does not exclude the visually impaired and can be explored through touch and the other senses.
Vision 2005 is a conference on issues concerning people with sight problems. It will include an exhibition organised under the auspices of the International Society for Low-vision Research and Rehabilitation. The programme of Vision 2005 will cover a broad range of themes, and will provide a rare opportunity to hear international experts in the field of blindness and sight loss. For more information, contact Vision 2005, Concorde Services Ltd, 42 Canham Road, London W3 7SR, , UK.
The 10-day event, will see 82 players from 31 countries vye for the title.
, , Reigning world champion, International Master Yunus from Kazakhstan will defend the title. There will be 16 other international masters, three international women masters and 6 FIDE masters among 45 international rated players who will take part in the event.
, , GTL the co-sponsors of the event, have specially designed chess software for the visually impaired which will be launched at a function on October 10.
Technowrites is pleased to announce its 2 day certificate course in XML andamp; Structured FrameMaker™ on 9th Saturday and 10th Sunday September 2006 in Pune. Spend your weekend in getting trained without compromising much on your regular work schedule.
, , Course outline
, , , XML
, , Concept of XML
, , Basics of XML
, , Tags
, , Types of elements
, , Attributes
, , DTD
, , Types - Valid XML and Well Formed XML
, , Writing Valid XML documents
, , Writing Well Formed XML documents
, , Writing DTDs
, Hundreds of deafblind people from all around the world will gather
together at Tampere to share experiences and information. Professionals working within the field of deafblindness will meet and examine the latest
innovations. The conference theme will be manifested in many sessions,
workshops and exhibitions at Tampere Hall. The diversity of
deafblindness will be celebrated in special occasions during the conference. There will be discussions about the rights of deafblind people to, e.g.
For the 12th ICEVI World Conference, Malaysian Association for the Blind would be the host organisation.
The course is for new entrants and working professionals to acquaint themselves to technical writing theory and tools.
Course contents include
- Technical Writing Basics
- Training in Microsoft Word
- Creating help file using RoboHTML
- Training in FrameMaker 7.0
Number of seats are eight.
The trainer is Mak Pandit, Managing Director of Technowrites. He is currently the President of STC India Chapter and has more than 11 years experience in the field.
RP Social will be organizing trips and outings to some of the most popular places in LA. Hollywood, Universal Studios, Disneyland, Getty Art Museum, Downtown LA, The Beach.The social will provide you with an opportunity to get to meet others in the same boat. Share experiences, laughs, gizmos and gadgets and ideas that help us in daily living. You have to carry a ID card stating that you are leagally blind. In L.A. they have the Braille Institute. They are in the process of having this card made available to anyone who needs one at a nominal cost.
Contact Person
The 3rd National Leadership Training Course for Disability Activists is a 5-day intensive exercise intended for disabled activists involved in advocating for the rights of the disabled and working towards an inclusive society.
, , Objective
, The training aims to equip the participants with appropriate attitude, knowledge and skills to emerge as leaders to facilitate a disability movement in their respective communities and across the country., , , Eligibility Criteria
The International Paralympic Committee IPC announced the fourth VISTA Conference to be held at Bonn, Germany.
One of the main goals of the conference would be to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to encourage interdisciplinary discussion. The theme would be, andquot;Classification - Solutions for the Future.
The theme of the conference this year is Inclusion and#8220;Rightand#8221; Approach. , , Participation is through registration. All educators, professional workers, family members and volunteers of the visually impaired may send duly completed registration form through e-mail to blinabad1@sancharnet.in and bpaiceviad1@sancharnet.in.
The conference will focus on providing a , platform for exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience in integrating persons with disabilities into the main stream of technical and vocational education.
Student Service for the Blind is organising a one-day workshop on experimental science for visually impaired people. Experts from the University of Tsukuba, Japan will demonstrate state-of-the-art tools and techniques used in physics and chemistry experiments for visually challenged students.
Special educators, resource teachers and B.Ed. trainees are invited to participate in this workshop.
For registration and further details, please contact
Dr. T. Robinson
Madras Christian College
Chennai 600 059
India
Phone +91-44-2550 2375
This is a five month diploma course. It covers the following topics
• Basic Hardware and Software concepts.
• Basic Hardware and Software concepts.
• Operating System MS Windows.
• Word Processing MS Word.
• Spreadsheet MS Excel.
• Internet Browsing.
• E-mails.
• Indian Language Word Processing Optional.
• Screen Reading Software including Basic Operation and Screen Reading Configuration.
• Scanning and OCR.
• Using Computer as a Text Reading Machine.
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