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Revision as of 16:58, 6 September 2013
aLipi -- God's own content
lipi means alphabet, letter, writing or script in Sanskrit, and in most Indian languages. "a" as a prefix is used as a negation in Indian languages.
So alipi as a word means without-alphabet or text/print-impaired.
In developing countries like India, in addition to the visually handicapped there is another significant segment of the population, namely the insufficiently literate, who are also a large target community for provisioning screen reading of content. This segment would, however, benefit from a visually rich rendition of a site while "reading out" the content. "Alipi - god's own content" is an investigation into creating and managing locally relevant accessible content for communities.
Towards this is a11y.in - "re-narration Web". It is a generic Web-framework for developing and rendering narratives that assist in accessing Web-content across cultural boundaries. Re-narration Web is therefore about Web-accessibility for digital Inclusion or e-inclusion.
alipi / a11y.in research and development is open source, and is seeking developers, narrators, designers and Internet interest groups to help with development, demonstration and formalization so that an effective consolidation of architecture, processes and recommendations can evolve over the next couple of years.
Try it! On a Firefox. alipi.us. Sites can also integrate it: See Alipi link on Raika BCP page
See ReNarrationAct for the showcase project associating the delivery of law relating to domestic workers on a mobile phone, through re-narrations.
August 2011 Janastu/Servelots report describes the development of alipi.
Current code-base, development status at Alipi git-hub
We mocked up how a web-site could be played as a slide-show here. The idea behind this slide-show is explained here.
We also took up minimum wages law for domestic workers as an use case scenario. With the help of lawyers and domestic workers we re-narrated the page. After re-narration it could be clearly seen that more domestic workers could understand the law better now.
Currently we have two mailing lists:
alipi-dev @ googlegroups.com for developers
alipi-users @ googlegroups.com for users
We also are live on #alipi at irc.freenode.net.
and some outdates
