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India has an estimated 70 million disabled persons who are unable to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. The disabled need accessible content, devices and interfaces facilitated via copyright law and accessibility policies. We have organised Right to Read campaigns in the four metro cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai, made a submission to amend the Indian Copyright to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, researched on accessible mobile handsets in India, analysed the Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and published a policy handbook on e-accessibility and a book on universal service for persons with disabilities.

Key Research

Books

  1. Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: A Global Survey of Policy Interventions and Good Practices, G3ict & CIS, authored by Axel Leblois, Nirmita Narasimhan and Deepti Bharthur, 27 December 2011.
  2. e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities (Russian Version), 4 November 2011.
  3. e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities,edited by Nirmita Narasimhan, ITU and G3ict with support from Hans Foundation, (released by Smt.Vibha Puri Das, Secretary, Dept of Higher Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi), 27 October 2010.

White Papers

  1. Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective (Revised Edition 2011), G3ict, edited by Nirmita Narasimhan, May 2011.
  2. Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective – A G3ict White Paper, G3ict, edited by Nirmita Narasimhan, 21 December 2009.

Submissions

  1. Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011, submitted to the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India, 9 December 2011
  2. Right to Knowledge for Persons with Print Impairment: A Proposal to Amend the Indian Copyright Regime, Inclusive Planet and Alternative Law Forum, submitted to the Ministry of HRD, November 2009.

Other Research

  1. Accessible Mobile Handsets in India: An Overview, Deepti Bharthur, 10 March 2011.
  2. The Working Draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2010: Does it exceed its Mandate in Including Provisions Relating to Other Disability Legislations?, Inclusive Planet and the Centre for Law and Policy Research, 24 February 2011.
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Blogs
Technology for Accessibility in Higher Education
Technology for Accessibility in Higher Education

Education for students with disabilities has long been a serious cause of concern in India, as also in other countries around the world. A person with a disability studying in mainstream educational institutions in India experiences many difficulties in navigating through the obstacle course of the Indian educational system, writes Nirmita Narasimhan in this IIMB Journal brought out on the occasion of the conference 'never-the-less - Enabling Access for Persons with Disabilities to Higher Education and Workplace - Role of ICT and Assistive Technologies.

Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessible
Inputs for NTP 2011
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News & Media
Nirmita receives NIVH Award
Nirmita receives NIVH Award

Nirmita Narasimhan received the NIVH Excellence Award from Justice AS Anand (retd), former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped in Dehradun on Saturday, 3 December 2011.

An Interview of Nirmita Narasimhan on ITU Portal
An online community platform for people with different needs
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Events
Web Sites Accessibility Evaluation Methodologies: A New Imperative for State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Mar 30, 2011 07:00 PM to Mar 30, 2011 08:30 PM, at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Room H-01

W3C-WAI, G3ict and CIS are joining hands to organise the 20th International World Wide Web Conference in Hyderabad, India on March 30, 2011 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Room H-01.

Enabling Access to Education through ICT
Oct 27, 2010 12:00 PM to Oct 29, 2010 08:00 PM, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

ICT workshop in Delhi...starts from Wednesday, 27 October 2010...ends on Friday, 29 October 2010.

Campaigners for Inclusion to Organise Awareness Raising Event at Kolkata International Book Fair on February 6
Feb 06, 2010 04:30 PM to Feb 06, 2010 07:30 PM, at Kolkata

Campaigners for Inclusion is organising an awareness raising event on Right to Read at the Kolkata International Book Fair on February 6, 2010.

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