- From: Nirmita Narasimhan <nirmita@cis-india.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:16:14 +0530
- To: <w3c-translators@w3.org>
- Cc: "Nirmita Narasimhan" <nirmita.n@googlemail.com>
Hi everyone,
This is Nirmita from the Centre for Internet and Society. I would like to
bring to your notice that there is now a hindi translation of WCAG 2.0. We
would like to make this an authorised translation. Please find below a list
of all the relevant stakeholders who will be partners in the review process:
1) National Informatics Centre (NIC) Delhi
Hall No 6, Nbcc Tower
Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110066
Ph. No.: 011 24361504
Contact person: Mr.Achutan Mohan, Deputy Director General
NIC is the nodal organisation which is responsible for creation and
maintenance of about 4000-5000 government web sites across the country.
2) DPI-India
Contact Person: Mr. Javed Abidi
Secretary General
Disabled Peoples' International India
D-31, Ground Floor
Panchsheel Enclave
New Delhi 110017
Tel: 011 - 2649 6063
DPI is a cross disability organisation and an interested stakeholder.
3) National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP)
A -77, South Extension Part II
New Delhi - 110 049, India
Tel.: 91-11-26265647 / 26265648
Contact Person: Helen Mahtani, Programme Officer.
N.C.P.E.D.P has a board of management with representation from the industry,
Non governmental organisations, disabled persons and international agencies.
It has been working in the disability sector for more than two decades and
is one of the leading organisations in this sector in India.
Websites: www.ncpedp.org and www.dnis.org
4) National Association for the Blind,
Delhi State Branch
Sector 5, R.K. Puram,
New Delhi 110 022
Contact person: Sandeep Khaler
www.nabdelhi.org
NAB has been working to solve issues for the visually challenged in India
for many decades now. It has centres in various cities and is one of the
repositories of accessible material for the blind in India. Amongst other
things NAB Delhi is also responsible for developing the open source indian
screen reading software SAFA (Screen Access for All).
5) Score Foundation (Delhi)
No. 125-BGround Floor
Shahpur Jat Village
Hauz Khas
Delhi-110016
Phone: 011-26494581, 011-26494582
Contact person: Mr.George Abraham
www.eye.way.org
One of Score Foundation's interventions is in diseminating information to
visually challenged persons through their web site, helpline and radio
channel in different cities.
6) Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled (Bangalore)
#484 east end main road 9th block
Jayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560069,
India
Ph- 080 26341488
Contact person: Jatin
www.samarthanam.org
Samarthanam Trust, which is also a member of the WBU, started initially as
an organisation dedicated to addressing the needs of the visually
challenged, but have now expanded their include children of all
disabilities.
7) Acrodelon technologies Pvt Ltd
A.T. Corporate Park
Civil Lane
Kochi - Kerala ,INDIA 682030
Email Address:careers@acrodelon.com
Telephone:91-484-4069542
Contact person: Rahul Cherian
Acrodelon Technologies is currently involved in creating the largest on
line portal for disabled persons in India, which will cater to a wide
variety of interests of persons with all manners of disabilities.
8) Arushi- Bhopal
Shivaji Nagar,
Near Gas Claim Court,
Behind MPEB Office,
Bhopal, MADHYA PRADESH 462016
India
Tel: 91-755-4293399
Contact person: Rohit Trivedi
Arushi works with children with all sorts of disabilities; it focuses mainly
on rehabilitation, education, and sensitisation.
9) Sarai
CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Civil Lines Delhi - 110054
India
Ph no: 91-11-23928391
+91-11-42411015
+91-11 26162707
email: dak@sarai.net
Contact person: Ravikanth
Web site: www.sarai.net
Sarai is a research programme of the CSDS (Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies). Sarai is constituted by different nodes and spaces,
such as the Archive, Media Lab, Seminar Space, Interface Zone etc.
10) Saksham
c/o Rummi Seth
Dakshineshwar Building. Flat No. 9
10, Hailey Road
New Delhi- 110001
India
contact person: Dipendra Manocha
Ph: 098101 84627 email: dipendra.manocha@gmail.com
Saksham Trust was formed with a view to providing oppurtunities for
empowering persons with disabilities.
11) Ajay Kolhatkar
Research Associate
Infosys
Ajay.kolhatkar@infosys.com
Contact no: 097399 79585
Dr.Ajay Kolhatkar is working with the web 2.0 team in Infosys and is
involved in developing accessible technologies.
12) UN Solutions Exchange
B-5/29, Safdarjang Enclave
opposite Deer Park
New Delhi- 110029
Contact person: Rajen Varada
Tel:011 26713000
email: r.varada@unesco.org
Solution Exchange, an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India, is
harnessing the power and passion of Communities of Practice to help attain
India's development objectives and the Millennium
Development Goals by connecting the nation's development professionals and
enabling them to share, learn from each other, and collaborate. The ICTD
community has over 2000 members and the community has discussed, among other
issues, Web Accessibility issues, the Common Service Centre scheme, use of
ICT in Education, ICT and livelihoods, remote sensing in agriculture,
setting
up and running Community Radio stations, e-governance and the role of ICT in
local content creation.
13) Ambedkar Center for Justice and Peace
Address: Dr. Ambedkar Bhavan
Gokuldas Pasta Lane
Behind Chitra Theatre
Dadar (E)
Mumbai- 400 014
Tel. No.:91-022-2885 1572
Mobile No.: 91-99692 20269
Website: www.acjpindia.org
Contact Person: N.K. Sonare, President
Ambedkar Centre engages with issues of disabled persons and is an
interested stakeholder.
All the abovementioned organisations have expressed their willingness to
review the translation.
Please let me know how I may proceed further with this.
Best wishes, Nirmita
Nirmita Narasimhan
Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560 052
P: +91 80 4092 6283
M: 098458 68078
Received on Friday, 22 May 2009 06:13:47 UTC