T. V. Raman

TV Raman (born 1965 in Pune, Maharashtra, India) is an author and computer scientist. He is known for his work in the field of accessible Internet.

Biography

Raman was born in Pune, India. He lost his sight at the age of 14 by glaucoma. In 1994 he received his doctorate with David Gries at Cornell University. His dissertation was awarded a prize of the ACM. He has worked for IBM and Adobe Systems and since 2005 at Google Inc. hired. At Adobe, he was involved in improving the accessibility of the PDF format, so this could be used by U.S. authorities. At Google he worked, among others, a search engine for accessible websites and blind friendly controls for mobile phones.

In his work he uses Emacs, for which he wrote with Emacsspeak its own screen reader and full audible desktop, with the org -mode.

Publications

Software

  • ASTER - A screen reader for technical / mathematical articles.
  • Emacspeak - A screen reader for Emacs and complete audible desktop.
  • Google Accessible Search - a search engine for accessible websites.
  • Project Overview to Eyes -Free at Google Code - A software for Android that allows you to use for the blind.

Standards / specifications

  • Aural CSS - Producing rich auditory presentations from Web content
  • ( Working Draft ) XForms 1.1 - Next Generation Web Forms
  • XML Events - A Reusable eventing syntax for XML
  • XHTML Voice - Enabling the Web via voice multimodal interaction
  • RDC - Reusable Dialog Components
  • TV Raman: Audio System for Technical Readings. Springer, New York 1998, ISBN 3-540-65515-8.
  • T. V. Raman: XForms: XML Powered Web Forms. Addison -Wesley Longman, 2003, ISBN 0-321-15499-1.
  • TV Raman: Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking Computer. Springer, 1997, ISBN 0-7923-9984-6.
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