DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI: From computers to make education available in these subjects to the blind and visually impaired students in the format of .braille books so that they can mix traditional ways of learning with epublications and even audio props. Music course books for school students will also be made available in braille soon, reports Ambika Pandit .
Most things happen online, but does everyone have equal access to the ‘online’? Flipkart is one of India’s leading e-commerce websites, yet it is extremely challenging for persons with vision impairments to independently access and navigate the site. Why are we being held back from fully participating in online experiences? Despite repeated attempts to raise awareness through reviews on various platforms, we remain unheard. Sign this petition to help us amplify the cause.
Amity School student Saumya Chauhan hopes her object-detection device will help the visually challenged handle daily challenges more confidently
Innovation and entrepreneurship have nothing to do with age. Saumya Chauhan, 17, is a testament to that. The Class 12 student of Amity Global School in Gurugram has developed an intelligent vision-based object detection device for the visually/partially impaired to help them get through their daily lives with some ease.
VADODARA: She was the first and the only visually-impaired student to appear for the SSC exams using a laptop in the state. Now, Vadodara-based Yesha Makwana achieved yet another feat as she ranked first in the state among all the visually-impaired students who took the board exams. Makwana, a student of Web Memorial School, scored 85.2%.
The blind students are given special laptops with voice assistant features.
THOOTHUKUDI: A group of people with visual impairment have decided to name their residential area after the outgoing district collector, Dr K Senthil Raj, as a mark of respect for his continuous efforts to empower them. In August 2022, Minister Geetha Jeevan and Thoothukudi MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi had recently distributed free land pattas to 27 men and 25 women attached to the Ulagin Oli Visually Impaired Trust.
Gillo Repertory Theatre presented the play, Rangchor, Ek Rakshas Ki Anokhi Kahani (The Colour Thief, an unusual tale of a demon) at the Prithvi Theatre on May 12.
The story is set in a fairytale-like place where a monster lived in a cave and hated colours. So, one day she snatched away the colours from everything in the world.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated special facilities that provide visually challenged people access to more than 1.7 million publications and resources in the library.
NEW DELHI: Visually challenged people will now have easier access to the vast repository of resources in the parliament library which is now equipped with necessary assistive technologies, officials said.
Visually impaired since his birth, Miracle Gill from Jammu has beaten all odds to secure 93.4% in CBSE’s Class-12 exams, result of which was declared on Friday.
Son of Asif Gill and Aruna Gill, the 20-year-old now wants to enrol in a BA programme at Delhi’s St Stephen’s College. He also nourishes the dream of becoming an IAS officer.
The Delhi high court Tuesday sought the Centre’s stand on a public interest litigation plea seeking a direction to affix quick response (QR) code on medicines, food products and cosmetics to make them accessible to visually impaired people.
New Delhi, India – Sightsavers India, a leading NGO that works towards eliminating avoidable blindness and promoting equality for people with disabilities, has developed an online app called “Student Tracking Assessment and Reporting (STAR)” to track the progress of visually impaired children in their inclusive education program. The tool has been designed to collect basic information, set baseline data of the children, capture progressive data of the Children with Visual Impairment (CVI), and generate reports based on monitoring of field-based activities.
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