Alipi

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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.

See SpeechActOntheMove for the showcase project associating the delivery of law relating to domestic workers on a mobile phone, through re-narrations.


Johanna Royer as reported on how the semantic associations can be marked with in a page: jo-report.pdf

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.odp

Current code-base, development status at git-hub

Developer related documents at this page

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.

Project ideas are on a11y.in and GSoC ideas page is at a11y.in/gsoc/ideas or Alipi Ideas google doc

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.

You can download the extension from here

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