Alipi
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.
Johanna Royer as reported on the semantic associations that can be marked with in a page: [1]
Subramanya Sastry has written about the relationships between documents in the content of alipi alipi-relations.txt
Anand Bala has put together a few slides to explain the idea of alipi, some examples, and some pointers to students and other project needs alipi.odt
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.
Current code-base, development status at git-hub
Documents at this page
Project ideas are on a11y.in and GSoC ideas page is at a11y.in/gsoc/ideas or Alipi Ideas google doc
