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Google launches new Braille keyboard on Android for visually impaired people

For over 100 years, Braille has been helping the people who are blind and low vision to read and communicate. Google wants to help the visually impaired community use Braille on their smartphones as well. To make this happen, Google has launched a Braille keyboard named TalkBack.

For disabled people, tech is a great equaliser and Google‘s latest offering is a step in that direction. Called TalkBack, Google has launched a virtual braille keyboard for people with vision impairments.

Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://www.sebi.gov.in/sebiweb/other/careerdetail.jsp?careerId=147

Visually impaired IIT student gives fisherfolk safety net

Kailash Tandel networks with professor, friends to raise nearly ₹2 lakh; distributes 280 packets of essentials

Kailash Tandel (35) had to go back home to Machimar Nagar in Cuffe Parade from his hostel in IIT Bombay, where he is pursuing his PhD, when the novel coronavirus began to gain a foothold in the city.

Mr. Tandel was no stranger to the hardships his community faced, but this time, he was filled with dread. The locality has poor hygiene, the fisherfolk who live in the area have had a bad run at sea for months and the lockdown has added to their financial distress.

Preferential Delivery by BigBasket- Complete Process

BigBasket has introduced priority delivery of groceries for people with disabilities (PWD). They are working to enhance experience for PWD based on the request from Blind Graduates Forum of India to
minimize challenges due to lockdown and social distancing measures.
Please make note of the process to order below:
• Fill your details in this form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P4zm4yvaFwzaSfz9_aQ-DjS2RZky4CeIMOQPf56p9Fo/edit

Employment training organize by Dr. Reddy's Foundation

As the subject indicates Grow center, Chennai, of Dr. Reddy's Foundation is conducting online employment training course. The course will cover communicative English, soft skills, digital literacy and interview skills and also outline mobile operation and mock interviews.
Interested candidates who have a laptop and internet connectivity can contact the trainer Mr. Alfred at the number given below for further information.
Call on 8618802265
mail me alfred.stephen@drreddysfoundation.org

Excluding the excluded: India’s response to the education of children with disabilities during Covid-19

COVID 19 has brought unprecedented challenges in India one of which is its impact on school going children and their regular education. While it is promising to see many thought pieces raising the issue and offering meaningful solutions to this issue, it is no surprise that we have yet again failed to recognize the highly excluded category of Children with disabilities(CWDs) from the entire discourse. A staggering 75 % of children with disabilities doesn’t attend schools in India.

BGFI- Virtual Session on Assertiveness- 3RD May

It is said that words selected in communication are 2H sward. If we select wrong words, it can act as a bullet, on the other hand selection of the right words an attitude in communication may work as a healer. BGFI is all set to conduct a session on yet another topic known as assertiveness. Assertiveness means conveying a strong message in a polite yet in a firm manner. being assertive enables us to stand up for our rights or stand up against something wrong in a calm and positive manner without being ither aggressive or passively accepting wrong.

Mother's Day Sale: Blindshell Classic phone, Book Readers, Victor Reader Trek, Stream, Talking MP3 Players, Talking Fire Tablets & Awesome Accessories! Audio Demos

We have lots of great gift items in stock for Mother's Day which is coming up quickly so get your orders in ASAP! We also have improved download links for our Audio Demos of our newest Talking Mp3 Player,
Book Reader and Accessible MP3 AM/FM Radio!

Delhi University conducts webinar on Covid-19 for visually impaired students

The Delhi University on Tuesday conducted a webinar on COVID-19 for visually impaired students to help them deal with the problems they are facing due to the coronavirus lockdown.

The university has nearly 3,000 students with disabilities.

Based on the webinar, titled ‘COVID-19 and the Challenges of the Visually Impaired’, the university plans to prepare a policy document concerning interventions required for the visually impaired, to be circulated in public domain and for implementation, the varsity said.

Undergraduate studies from abroad

From Indic AI Foundation

Students who are planning to pursue undergraduate studies from outside India, Join Bhavya Shah, a visually impaired student, who is currently deciding between Stanford University and Harvard University for his undergraduate studies.

It’s a 1-hour free online webinar on zoom, where you can seek guidance and clarify your doubts on how to prepare and apply for different colleges outside India.

Students are requested to fill the google form to nominate themselves https://bit.ly/2VVOhFK

webinars

NAB Delhi is please to bring to you two more webinars on interesting subjects.

Webinar 1: Stories from other countries, how the visually impaired community is coping up under lockdown on Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 5.30 pm

Prashant Ranjan Verma will be talking to leading personalities from different countries to understand the present situation of visually impaired, their concerns and expectations amid lockdown and restrictions
imposed to prevent spread of Covid 19.

Computer Training

Microsoft word
Formatting reading navigation reading and writing commands
Creating table columns rows and formatting calculation of table
Learning mail murge
Some important topic covered word
Micro soft excel:

Customise model of social distancing for the disabled

The novel coronavirus has caused an economic and social avalanche nationwide. India has extended the lockdown until May 3. So far the pandemic has claimed more than 550 lives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that persons with disabilities (PwDs) are at a greater risk from the virus. Social distancing is the need of the hour. However, it has greatly inconvenienced PwDs who are in a double bind when it comes to even implementing basic hygiene to keep the virus at bay. The social model of managing disabilities has gone haywire.

BPO Sector, Gakaay Solutions

Recruitment open in Gakaay Solutions hiring for BPO Sector .
WORK : Voice Process
Location Pune , Mumbai
Here we are offering home based work
Salary upto 25000. Job shift s night shift + rotational any 9 hours shift with weekly off on Sunday.
Requirements
Any graduate and undergraduate candidates with excellent communication skills
Undergraduate should have at least 6 months of experience
Candidate should have a good broadband connections with headphone mic and updated windows operating system

Maths and Science support classes for 9th class visually Impaired.

Maths and Science support classes for 9th class visually Impaired.
The classes will be provided online, by one of the best Training Institutes
in India. The syllabus will be covered in Hindi and English mode. Students will also be provided reading material in accessible format in English. The students can attend the classes using Smartphones or Laptops.
Please fill this form to register for the classes: http://bit.ly/2PXaQI7
The students will have a Demo class on 25th April.

On-screen braille to voice-guided maps: Are smartphones finally catering to the visually impaired?

How would you use your smartphone if your vision was impaired? Most of us have never had to consider this question, but, according to the World Heath Organisation, for an estimated 285 million people (more than the entire population of Indonesia) it’s a daily concern. With modern life pivoting around the use of electronic devices, accessibility for the visually impaired is a growing issue. A step forward came last week, when Google unveiled an on-screen Braille keyboard for Android.

COVID19: Impact on Assistive Technologies Demand for Visually Impaired Market Industry, Finds Fact.MR

Fact.MR has recently published a new research that provides detailed insights on the working dynamics of the global Assistive Technologies Demand for Visually Impaired market. The research report offers in-depth information about the key market segments, vendor landscape, geographical outlook, and the factors driving and inhibiting growth.

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BHAKKAR: Over 100 people are living in darkness in Basti Sohalan, a rural area of Bhakkar, as they suffer from a rare genetic disorder which blinds them as their age progresses.
The genetic disorder has no cure besides enrichment of the gene pool by marrying outside the village to prevent the blindness to take over the lives of the future generation, a local health expert revealed when contacted by The Express Tribune.

Graduate Executive Trainee (GET) HR

The Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC)
RECRUITMENT CELL / HR DEPARTMENT / CORPORATE OFFICE
Block-1, Neyveli-607 801,
Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu

NLC India Limited (NLCIL), a premier ‘NAVRATNA’ Public Sector Enterprise with a present Annual Turnover of INR.7145.92 crore is spreading its wings in the frontiers of Mining(Lignite &Coal), Thermal Power generation and Renewable energy.

Wisroc’s visually-impaired man identified as latest COVID-19 victim

Guyana‘s latest victim of the Covid-19 has been identified Sydney Trellis called ‘Jacket’, a 49-year-old visually-impaired man from the Government Housing Scheme in Wismar, Region 10.
Trellis is recorded as the nation’s 7th Coronavirus fatality.

He passed away on Saturday night in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, after about two weeks of undergoing treatment.Guyana’s latest COVID-19 victim: Sydney Trellis

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