Outrage over PM Modi's insensitive remarks on dyslexia, disability groups demand apology
A mocking comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modiregarding dyslexia has disability rights groups in India fuming.
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NIT-T holds orientation programme on assistive devices for visually challenged
Visually challenged students and teachers from across the State were imparted basic knowledge of modern assistive devices during a three-day programme held at National Institute of Technology- Tiruchi.
The 52 participants, most of them students, besides a few teachers, a librarian and a railway staff, benefited from the residential training programme on use of laptops, smartphones, various associated shortcut keys, basic android accessibility settings, talkback feature and text to speech feature.
Haptic baton’ offers new ray of hope for visually impaired musicians
A conductor's baton has been created that allows the visually-impaired to follow its movements, opening up the potential for blind people to join more orchestras.
A conductor’s baton has been created that allows the visually-impaired to follow its movements, opening up the potential for blind people to join more orchestras. The ‘Haptic Baton’ contains sensors that pick up even slight motions. These are then transmitted via radio signals to vibrating devices attached to musicians’ wrists or ankles.
Centre for Disability Sports at Gwalior
The Union cabinet Thursday approved a proposal for setting up the Centre for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, to be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
The setting up of the centre shall entail an estimated cost of Rs 170.99 crore over a period of five years, an official statement said.
Apps to empower the visually-impaired
With infrastructure not changing for the sake of accessibility any time soon or at a fast-enough pace, these apps break barriers to empower the visually-impaired community
The smartphone has been a clairvoyant for those in the dark for a while now — from reading street signs to telling the time and gauging physical surroundings. After all, 90% of the information processed by the human brain is visual
Enter the Envision and Be My Eyes apps which promise all this and more, with a focus on diversification, privacy and inclusivity.
Blind JNU boy who failed gets another chance
NEW DELHI: The visually-impaired student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who failed his semester exams, has now been given zero year by the administration.
An unusual visual treat
Life of a visually impaired girl from a backward socio-economic background is far more challenging than one can imagine. And city-based Meera Shenoy realises that on a daily basis in the government girls school where her organisation, Youth4jobs, work towards the well-being of these students.
Pune: Through only touch, a journey all the way to Venus
Manufactured thousands of miles away in South Africa, a 3D-printed yellowish-brown model of planet Venus was among the handful of tactile objects — globes, maps, grids and a dome — that were introduced for the first time at the IUCAA.
Offering a first-of-its-kind opportunity to 50 visually challenged students, the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) marked National Science Day on Thursday by, among other events, taking them on a journey across the mountains, craters and other features on the inundated surface of planet Venus.
Over 10,000 students to assist disabled people in polls.
NEW DELHI: Over 10,000 students from government schools, DU, IP University and NCC are to assist the chief electoral officer of Delhi during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
IIT-D develops India’s first Braille Laptop for visually impaired
For the first time in India, the researchers and scientists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-D) Delhi, has developed a ‘DotBook’- the country’s first Braille Laptop for the blind students and the community. This laptop which is exclusively created for the differently abled will be afforadable and have refreshable Braille display.
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