Raghavendra Satish Peri AKA Digital Challenger's Blog

Sunday, June 21, 2009

EnAble India’s new batch for Career Centric Computer Training (CCCT) for the visually impaired will commence on July 1st 2009.

Introduction of Enable India

Enable India is a non-profit organization working tirelessly since its inception from 1999 towards the economic independence and dignity of persons with disabilities. We cater to the needs of all kinds of disabilities like visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically disabled, mental retardation, mental illness and more across India.

Our major thrust areas are employment, pre-employment services, and work place solutions, supplemental education, consulting and enabling other institutions working for the disabled.

Introduction of Career Centric Computer Training:

Computer Training for the visually impaired is the greatest form of empowerment for them. It opens up the world to them: a world of information (aiding research, education, daily living, recreation), people, jobs, books (print to voice). Computer training involves training on Computer Basics, MS office, Internet using the JAWS screen reading software which is talking software that aids the visually impaired to “hear” everything that a sighted person would “read”.

This is an initiative from Enable India team towards giving quality computer training for visually impaired people who have completed their studies and seeking for a job, and those who want to continue their studies in the field of computers. Main goal of this course is to make the candidate employable by providing computer knowledge and making them efficient in using computers independently. This will increase the employment opportunities, betterment of existing job, and for higher studies.

Content:

The course will cover English training, Keyboard Typing, Computer Fundamentals (Introduction to Windows and applications, Editing, Dialog boxes, File and folder management ) Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point), Internet, Outlook Express, Screen reader fundamentals (Using screen reader help) and Miscellaneous concepts like scanning, software installations, Computer physical connections, CD burning etc.

Life skills training for both career and life which includes Learning sessions, Analytical skills training, real world exposure etc

Course Details:-

Duration : 6 – 8 months

Timings : 9:00am – 6:30 pm, Monday – Saturday

Date : 1st July 2009 Onwards

Seats : 15

Premise : EnAble India, Bangalore

Course Fee : No Course Fee

Refundable Deposit : Rs.500 (will be refunded on the successful completion of the course with 90%

attendance)

No accommodation will be provided (Assistance will be provided to get PG or Hostel based on request)

Assistance for Employment will be given for the eligible candidates after successful completion of the course

Eligibility:

· Any visually impaired person with graduation or equivalent diploma. 12 years (PUC/+2) pass candidates may be considered on an exception basis.

· Age should not be more than 35 years

· Who want to use computer skills for their education/ employment, and having good communication English, and basic knowledge of mathematics

· Visually Impaired persons who can dedicate their full time for the entire course duration

Important Note: Persons who are waiting to join other courses/education/employment within July 2009 to February 2010 are not eligible.

Joining Procedure:

Candidates have to call EnAble India front office and fill the CCCT joining form and take appointment for the evaluation test. If they are from out of station, the evaluation and interview will be conducted via telephone. Local candidates who pass the evaluation will be asked to come for interview at EnAble India.

Dates: Evaluation Test and personal Interview will be on 22^nd, 23rd and 25th of June 2009

Course will commence from 1^st July 2009

For further queries contact us: EnAble India, #12, K H B Colony, 8th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore-95 Telephone: 080 – 42823636, 9845313919. Email: ctvi@enable-india.org

www.enable-india.org

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

i got into thevault.bz

hello all i got to post one more exiting site which call ed thevault.bz which i found interesting. it was tough getting into the site but its highly accessable for those who want to get their hands on some motivational material. i have even done a forum post there which is one of my first forum post. its is tough to get in to the vvault but if you follow their rules and faqs you can get. i am just giving an idea of theirs rules http://www.thevault.bz/faq.php
and http://www.thevault.bz/rules.php. its a good place and i have found some coll materials which are boosting me.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Cisco cerrtification for visually impired

Hello all today i would like to say that our CCNA course is comming to a end and we all have to work hard to pass through the exams. so i will not be posting daily and keep posting when ever i get some time. Our ccna instructors are helping us to do the lab works and clearing doubts for all the students. I see most of the time that students are not attending the classes as it is too early so the instructors changed the timings. so now we have to work hard for final exam which is going to take place mostly in the month of july.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Accessindia mailing list- is it good to participate in these type of mailing lists

Hello all i am back with one more post today about participating in mailing lists which is open to public, i mean the contact information is open to public.. You might be wondering how a contact info which is exchanged in a group is open to public but late recently i found this. i joined a mailing list called accessindia which is a mailing list for visually impaired to exchange their views on different issues and found that archieves to public, not only that they will be crawled by search engines and submitted in results for some keywords. i don't understand then what is private in this mailing list. i feel this is very dangerous as the contact info of email id and phone numbers in some cases the addresses of people are available for anyone to take over. i asked the moderator about this he said he cnnot remove my info and he did not respond after that email. there are couple of email lists run by innocent people like this and exposing the sensitive info over the web. so i warn the people to read whether is it a closed or a public archieve mailing list. the moderators have a solution for this they can provide the link of archieves to only members but not to public and search engines. now i am taking email id and phone numbers so as to market my websites as this is my chance to build a good email list and customer relation. ok will be back with one more post next time.

Friday, March 27, 2009

My experience with orkut

Hello all today i am going to share my experiences with orku. orkut is the first social networking site which i signed up and this particular one has changed my life in many ways. I started to learn many things from different people and met some really interesting personalities. communities are one of those sources from where i found those who are like me. I used orkut during job to find candidates for some requirements. i was working as a HR for a company so i used to source resumes through the orkut and found good results. to catch me up on orkut plz follow this link http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Home.aspx

Now i am on different social networking and professional networking sites but i see that these networks are being spammed than using them for good. Today also i connect with people from different networks and do my business of internet marketing or teach internet marketing. Though i do lot of internet marketing or online business i look forward to make my career in area of Management as internet is not so accessable for me to do this as full time job with out the help of a sited person.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Access ability of internet for visually challenged

Hello all today i am going to speak about the accessability of internet for visually challenged using screen readers. After using different softwares and being in the field of internet marketing i understood that with accessability of internet for screen readers we cannot do any thing. For example if there is no jaws i might not able to do this blog posts jaws is my screen reader which in full form called as job access with speech.. I found that most of the websites and softwares are not accessable for visually challenged. For example i am typing my blog post here and this particular area is not accessable for my screen reader as it is not recognising what kind of edit area is this. In this way there lot of rules which are called accessability guidelines which can be found in w3schools.org I am learning accessability testing as i found that the major internet companies are hiring visually challenged so as to work on their products, websites etc. Once upon there is no audio confirmation code available but today it is abailable and visually challenged can use mozilla and its addon called webvisum to over come the confirmation code problem. more information can be found at www.webvisum.com. ok bye for now will keep you posted.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Social Media catching fever

Hello folks it has been a long time since i posted anything to this blog. Today i would like to share that social media is catching fever to pass the information with in minutes to crores of people with in minutes. Some of the media jaints are concentrating for the business on social media so as to improve their business. Late recently i met a lady on skype she is a member of stompernet and she started mentoring. I feel that after having 3yrs of experience as internet marketer learning some thing from a stompernet will improve my skills more and more. We started a group on skype called moving forward and i met some amazing personalities there who gave work to me and i get lot of support. Today i don't feel alone when i am in social interaction on the websites like facebook, orkut, linkedin etc. you guys can catch me on twitter at www.twitter.com/raghava111. Ok will write about some thing else in the evening.