COVID-19: Visually-impaired persons face difficulties in maintaining social distancing

COVID-19: Visually-impaired persons face difficulties in maintaining social distancing.

Visually-impaired persons are

facing difficulties in maintaining social distancing norms in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

Students of a premier Kolkata school for visually- impaired persons, who are presently at home due to the lockdown, are worried over ways to maintain social distancing once the institute reopens in June.

BGFI Virtual Session on Cooking

Blind Graduates Forum of India (BGFI) with their ideology of think different runs many projects like Experiential Learning Sessions, Knowledge Sharing Sessions, Mentorship program and so on, which benefits Blind people in various aspects of their life like Education, Employment/Employability, Accessibility, Daily living
skills etc.

Software Developer Makes Corona Virus Statistics Website Accessible

Software Developer Makes Corona Virus Statistics Website Accessible for the Blind and Partially Sighted

A Boston-based software developer wanted to make COVID-19 stats accessible He created a website that would be easily readable by electronic braille readers and other assistive devices used by the blind and
partially sighted.

Tyler Littlefield, a software developer based in Boston, has created a database of COVID-19 statistics meant to be accessible to the visually impaired.

Moving Out is Coming with Accessibility Options and Assist Mode on April 28

Moving Out, the co-operative couch carrying game from Team17, is expected to arrive at the end of the month on a variety of consoles.
Before the April
28 release date, though, a new trailer has been dropped that shows off a variety of incredibly thoughtful accessibility options included in the game, alongside a helpful and easy to grasp Assist Mode. Check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-pYdpQSasQvmocEDWZUotQ

Blackboard Launches Free Accessibility Tool that Converts Digital Course Content Into Accessible Formats

Blackboard Inc. announced the launch of the
File Transformer,
Powered by Blackboard Ally — a free resource enabling students to
convert their digital course content into a range of alternative
formats to meet their
unique learning needs and preferences as they adjust to digital
teaching and learning modalities.

Facebook Launching Accessibility Tools Making Live-Streaming Available to More People

Facebook says it’s going to launch various features over the next couple weeks to make Facebook Live more accessible and easy to use, particularly for people who might not have a lot of mobile data.

Siddaraju judgment & how it looks at reservation for disabled people – By Tapas Bharadwaj

Law student Tapas Bharadwaj reflects on a recent judgement regarding reservations for people with disabilities in the guest post this week. Tapas, who is visually impaired, is a NTSE scholar and has won awards from the Ministry of Environment & Forests.

Chennai Harley Owners Group join hands to provide aid to disabled people at Ikkadu Village

he Harley Owners Group (HOG) Marina Chapter in Chennai provided provisions and other aids to families of 103 disabled people at Ikkadu Village at Tiruvallur. The team rode all the way to the village after taking prior permission from concerned authorities. HOG team aims to reach out to more disabled people in need during this lockdown period.

Google unveils a new Braille keyboard for Android smartphones

Visually impaired people often use big and bulky Braille keyboards that attach to their smartphones and PCs to type. Now, Google is launching a new Braille keyboard that will allow people with severe visual impairments to use their smartphones better and type without using additional hardware for the same.

COVID-19: Helpline for blind and visually impaired

Khabri, India’s first digital audio content platform in the regional language, has rolled out an exclusive COVID-19 helpline portal/platform to attend the blind and visually-impaired masses across India during these testing times.

Kibo App

*Latest update* of your favourite Reading and Learning companion, *Kibo app* compatible with Android 10 is now available on Playstore, with newly-added *Covid-19 Assist, Translation for Images and Enhanced PDF OCR Reading with more options to share, copy and Save*.

Thereby, making Kibo your one-stop solution to access any Printed, Handwritten and Digital content - like *PDF, Audio, Docx Word, Txt, Epub and Daisy*, that too across multiple Indian and overseas languages. It helps you read your Whatsapp images and you can even capture photo and Kibo reads it for you.

Visually impaired children contribute savings to relief fund

Children of the National Association for the Blind (NAB) at Gaulapar in Haldwani have contributed their personal savings amounting to Rs 11,000 to the CM relief fund. The amount comprising savings made by the children from their pocket money was handed over to the BJP state president Bansidhar Bhagat.

Stress Management Through Meditation (Vipassana)

We at BGFI, thought of something different. Understanding the high levels of stress, given the current situation, for the first time ever, BGFI brings to you an inspiring and insightful session on Vipassana virtually.
This session will be conducted by a very experienced Vipassana practitioner Mr. Subhash Agarwal on Zoom.

Date: Sunday, 12th April
Time: 5.30 to 7.15 pm
Venue: Zoom

COVID-19: Students with vision impairment shift to new platform

During the lockdown, 200 undergraduate students from various Indian cities are picking up employability skills through an online initiative; Help the Blind Foundation framed the curriculum and runs the programme

Visually-impaired persons, who sell snacks on trains, face loss of income due to lockdown

For over 10 days now, with no work, the daily source of income has stopped, they said

Dharman, who lives near Samiyar railway gate in Maraimalai Nagar, is unsure of when he will go back to his daily job. Before the lockdown, Dharman and several other residents of the area who are visually impaired, used to sell snacks on the trains that run from Beach to Chengalpet.

Coronavirus: Being blind during the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has caused daily difficulties for everyone. But what if you are visually impaired? Blind journalist Kate Pounds explores the particular challenges the virus has thrown up.

As the train approached London Waterloo on my last journey home from work before lockdown, a fellow passenger remarked he didn't want to press the button to open the doors because of Coronavirus.

It got me thinking. As someone who cannot see, I have to touch objects and surfaces much more than your average person.

COVID-19: Maharashtra govt launches helpline to address mental health concerns

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a large impact on the mental health of Indians, with many feeling unsafe, leading to a rise in anxiety and stress. To alleviate these mental health concerns, Mpower, a pioneer in Indian mental healthcare has partnered with Government of Maharashtra and the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to launch a toll-free helpline number – 1800-120-820050 called ‘BMC-Mpower 1on1’ that will be available to citizens 24x7.

Need groceries or vegetables? Call these helplines set up for disabled people during the lockdown

In many cities across India, NGOs and state government agencies have set up helplines and delivery services for disabled people during the coronavirus lockdown. We have put together a list for you and this will be updated on a regular basis. If you would like to add to this list, email editor@newzhook.com

Online live singing classes for Visually impaired students by an Internationally acclaimed Indian singer.

You can choose from the following options
1. Basic of singing: vocal exercises and voice culturing.
2. Learn songs of your choice with perfection, suggested by the mentor as per your voice quality and level.
3. Advanced learning, Introduction to Indian classical music, ragas, music theory and practical aspect of the various terms.

A test at the end of the course to judge the progress and give a certificate.

Please fill this google form to enroll for the course https://bit.ly/3bTrCAk

User Experience Executive

Visio-Apps Technology Pvt. Ltd

Visio-Apps Technology Pvt. Ltd.is a funded Tech Start-Up (Social Venture) engaged in building Apps for Visually Impaired people. The company is supported by some of the big names in the Venture Capital/Start-Up Angel Investors in India & US.

Job Description: This position will help refine the experience of “Voice Interaction between the User & the App.

Looking for Visually Impaired/Blind individuals with -:

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