| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
AccessAbility
Site Admin
Joined: 13 Apr 2007
Posts: 68
Location: New Delhi
|
|
Welcome to the Disability Discussion Board.
This community forum is here to help provide advice on disability issues and studies. Please try to keep your postings relevant to the question or topic in hand - it is very easy to lose track of what the original post contained. If a post is seen to be losing its way, it may end up being locked.
All new posts will be checked by at least one of the forum moderator team and will be edited/ deleted if any contain offensive, rude, racist, sexist, abusive comments of any sort. If repeated posts occur as suggested, the offending IP addresses will be permanently banned from the forum community.
Personal insults or attacks will not be tolerated on this forum. Offenders will be asked nicely to cease their behavior only once. Any repeat of this behavior after being asked nicely will result in a ban from posting on this community forum.
Occasionally topics will become heated debates where people may not agree on certain issues. There is no problem with heated debates as long as it doesn't result in personal insults or remarks which are offensive to any individuals or groups of people. Where a debate is seen to be getting 'out of hand' it may end up being locked and/or edited by the moderator team. If a locked post is restarted by any member of the forums, it will be locked/edited/deleted as necessary to prevent further abuse of these terms and conditions. Ignoring this rule may lead to your account being deleted and your IP address being banned permanently from these forums.
Although there are web sites not to everyone’s expectations or liking, please refrain from posting anything defamatory towards them on this community forum. This site would rather not have its good name associated with any defamatory material whatsoever. Any such posts will be edited/ deleted immediately.
Be nice! The majority of visitors to this forum will be mature pleasant and most of all helpful people, who are here to offer constructive advice, and we will aim to keep it like that.
Please do not post links to any offensive sites, you may post links to any site relevant to the topic in question.
Please do NOT add any web sites to your profile that contain pornographic material. Any members with this type of web site in their profile will be deleted from this forum.
General Advertising Guidelines
With the exceptions of advertising in the ‘Job Adverts’ and ‘Find Equipment Manufacturers’ forums, this Board operates a NO free advertising policy.
This specifically relates to the promotion of commercial businesses and services or any other product/service such as inappropriate chat rooms, discussion forums or message boards at the discretion of the web site administrator - AccessAbility or any of our Moderators team.
You may publicise your personal websites or business details discretely and appropriately in your signature keeping within the spirit of these forums. If your signature is found to be inappropriate, you will be asked politely to alter your signature.
You may post a direct link to an outside site given that the information is RELEVANT to a question someone else has posted, or you believe it will be helpful to others. Sneaky advertising will not be tolerated and will be deleted at the discretion of the web site administrator - AccessAbility or any of our Moderators team.
Registering on the forums for the sole reason of promoting your services or products by posting non-constructive posts in an effort to gain presence, may lead to your account being deleted and your IP address being banned permanently from these forums.
If you have a business or service that you think will benefit the members of the Disability Discussion Board forums and you would like to advertise in our dedicated advertising section, please contact AccessAbility via the private messaging system or email forum@accessability.co.in
In Addition to the Above Please Take Note of the Following
Acceptable Use Guidelines
This forum is made publicly available for the community to provide a valuable resource on disability issues and professionals located all over the world. In order to keep this forum in a sane state and to remain a valuable resource, we require all forum members to abide by the following rules.
If you have any questions or suggestions relating to these rules, please contact the forum adminstator - AccessAbility or any of our Moderators team members.
General
Commercial Postings
Commercial advertising of services is not allowed in the forums at this time, unless a request has been made in a post relating to finding products or services.
Spamming of any kind, either publicly or privately via PM or e-mail, is not tolerated, and may result in a possible ban of the account involved.
Contacting someone through PM or e-mail who is specifically asking for information related to whichever topic is allowed and is not considered as spamming.
Inappropriate Forum Content
Postings should be made in the appropriate forum section and should have a descriptive subject line.
Postings that are not in the appropriate forum section may be moved to the appropriate section. If a post is moved, a private message will be sent to the poster from the moderator that moved it, including a link to the new area.
Moderator Duty
Postings that have been modified by forum moderators will be marked as being edited with the moderators name included, and a reason for having edited the post.
Usernames
Usernames are used to uniquely identify ones self in the community through the use of a nickname. Usernames must not contain an email address or url address of any kind.
Signatures and User Profiles
Profiles with inappropriate content may be modified without prior notification.
Abusive Behaviour
Abusive behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated, and may result in an instant ban with the accounts involved, with or without notification.
If you have experienced abusive behaviour from a community member in any form, please inform the moderator team so appropriate action can be taken.
Moderator Behaviour
If you feel a forum moderator is abusing the forum rules, or is not acting in an ethical manner, please contact AccessAbility or email forum@accessability.co.in so appropriate action can be taken.
Disclaimer
The site and forum moderators reserve the right to modify or delete any inappropriate content on the forums without prior notification.
The forum Adminstrator: AccessAbility
The Moderator team members: Moderators
The Internet Content Rating Association - ICRA
You may have noticed a new logo being displayed on the main website at the foot of the page here: http://accessability.co.in. The logo is one of The Internet Content Rating Association which you can find here: http://www.icra.org/about/
This basically means that the content provided on this website is free from anything that may upset or offend children and gives some control to parents on what their children view on the internet.
The internet can sometimes be a very unpleasant place to be, but this site aims to make it safe for all.
AccessAbility has future plans for including children in our website, which means we need to be extra vigilant in how this forum is moderated. In particular:
• Rude jokes will be politely edited or removed with the poster being notified and reminded of these guidelines
• Rude pictures will not be tolerated
• Swearing will be edited or substituted using the forums built in swear filter
The swear filter does not always pick up every swear word, especially ones where we can all bypass the swear filter by adding characters in place of the middle letters of words, i.e. *%$^. If a word looks like a swear word, it will be edited.
I hope you all understand and help us to make this a fun and safe place to visit. After all, one of our main features on the site is the fact that it is friendly and pleasant to be around.
The following quote is taken from ICRA’s website and probably explains things a little better than what I have.
Thank you for your understanding and help in achieving these goals.
ICRA wrote:
| Quote: | The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to make the internet safer for children, while respecting the rights of content providers. ICRA has long believed the best approach to protecting children online is through "user empowerment" - giving families the tools to control their online experience. When used voluntarily, tools like ICRA's empower families to match their online experience with their values, without compromising free expression or undermining other users' access to information.
The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often referred to as "the ICRA questionnaire." Content providers check which of the 45 elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their websites. This then generates a short piece of computer code known as an ICRA label that the webmaster then adds to his/her site.
Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the information declared in the label. A key point is that the Internet Content Rating Association does not rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA labelling system. ICRA makes no value judgement about sites.
The descriptive vocabulary was drawn up by an international panel and designed to be as neutral and objective as possible. Most of the items in the questionnaire allow the content provider to declare simply that a particular element, such as bare breasts, gambling or chat facilities, is present or absent. The subjective decision about whether to allow access to that content is then made by the parent. |
Thank you for using the forums.
AccessAbility Forum Management
AccessAbility
http://accessability.co.in
+91 9911 08 2688 (Mob)
+91 11 2613 0862 (Office)
_________________
Website Administrator
AccessAbility
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
| Thankful People |
1 user(s) is/are thankful for this post.
Vic(28-04, 4:50), Thanks AccessAbility for his/her post
|
|
Adverts
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
AccessAbility Home|Contact Us
Ability Forum Index
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Photo Album
Smartfeed
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
Register
Hindi Website
