Fwd: Minutes of the stakeholder consultation on 27.11.2024 as per the Supreme Court directives in the Shri Rajiv Raturi Vs Union of India WP(C) 243/2005) case regarding accessibility standards and compliance under rule 15 of the RPD Rules, 2017-reg.

[Vaishnavi Jayakumar]

While the DEPwD gets this fixed, thought it best to share the unoffical OCR'ed version myself before 2024 ends. Some inputs seem to be missing though or perhaps I wasn't concentrating. You could refresh your memory with the recording provided by DEPwD.

We have 38 days left on the Supreme Court countdown clock and had better get a move on!

(Bcc'ing the 6 working groups as well.)

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Vaishnavi Jayakumar <jayakumar...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec, 2024, 17:50
Subject: Re: Minutes of the stakeholder consultation on 27.11.2024 as per the Supreme Court directives in the Shri Rajiv Raturi Vs Union of India WP(C) 243/2005) case regarding accessibility standards and compliance under rule 15 of the RPD Rules, 2017-reg.
To: AIC SIPDA Section <aic-...@gov.in>
Cc: manmeetnanda <manmee...@ias.nic.in>, Amita Dhanda <amita...@gmail.com>, Amar Jain <amar...@amarjain.com>, A. NARAYANAN <asnaray...@gmail.com>

Please resend with OCR document or original soft copy text. This is not text currently - it's an image and therefore not accessible to blind using screen readers.

 https://tools.pdf24.org/en/ocr-pdf

If DEPWD can run its email attachments through this before sending,  it will ensure basic screenreader access.

I think Amar Jain had oriented team on web and social media accessibility which they are now doing, but somehow have lapsed with emails. 

Simple solution to check if document is accessible to machine translation or screen reading software : try selecting the text. If something gets selected, even if not aligned to text, it has already been OCR'ed.

(Optical Character Recognition = OCR. Not a perfect solution, but will do for now.)

On Tue, 31 Dec, 2024, 17:19 AIC SIPDA Section, <aic-...@gov.in> wrote:

Ma'am/Sir

 

Please find the attached document in respect to the above mentioned subject.

Thanks and Regards,

AIC/SIPDA Section

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan)

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Government of India