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Mass installation of Indo NVDA

 Saksham is conducting a 2- day event of Mass installation of Indo NVDA, we have invited more than 300 users for the free installation and training. 
Saksham is organizing a Mega 2- day event with the help of its technical experts, Mass installation of screen reading software program, to support  the education and to empower the visually impaired persons. More than 300

Trainees for ITCM course

Wed, 12/26/2018 - 12:25 -- geeta.nair

First batch of Introduction to
Computer Science is about to complete by mid January, it was a excellent  experience to teach html, web accessibility and python to selected youth  with visually impairment/low vision, apart from teaching advance level of

No educators, signage in Delhi schools for differently abled

Wed, 12/26/2018 - 10:42 -- geeta.nair

DoE introduced 3% quota for children with special needs this year under 25% EWS quota, only 32 of 1,300 seats filled.

Gaps in infrastructure and lack of awareness are among the primary reasons why the Directorate of Education (DoE) has failed to draw applicants to seats reserved for differently abled children in the city’s private schools.

A matchmaking app

Inclov- A matchmaking app for people with disability
Inclov - the world's first inclusive matchmaking app designed for
people with disabilities and health disorders to find a life partner.
Available on Android, web and iOS platforms, the Inclov mobile
application is fully accessible through its screen reader and talkback
features.
Here are five reasons to join the Inclov community:
50,000 active profiles of men and women all over India
People with all kinds of disabilities who have similar bent of mind

Inclov Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Mon, 12/24/2018 - 12:16 -- geeta.nair

Inclov stands for Inclusive Love. It is designed for people with or without disability to come together and meet new people around them. It is a fast growing community of 35,000 people with total of 12,000 unique connections. Inclov promotes inclusiveness within the community making it accessible and safe to users with visual impairment, polio, paraplegia, cerebral palsy, prosthetic foots, cancer, diabetes, thalassemia, or skin diseases like Vitiligo and Albinism, etc amongst others.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE BLIND AT CHRISTMAS? | TAMARA GAUDET

Mon, 12/24/2018 - 12:00 -- geeta.nair

Christmas is my absolute, hands down favorite time of year.

Has been ever since I was a little girl. I would wait for Santa and hope he heard my Christmas wish. Then, growing up Christmas traditions continued and my love for this holiday deepened further. And now as a 44-year-old, I’m a proud, but pitiful knock-off for Mrs. Clause.

Visually impaired persons celebrate Christmas at Home for the Blinds

Mon, 12/24/2018 - 11:09 -- geeta.nair

Ferozepur, December 24, 2018: Visually-impaired persons from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu, Chandigarh, Zirakpur and Delhi, on Sunday, gathered at Home for the Blind in Ferozepur for Christmas celebrations –  to cherish peace and goodwill to be plenteous in mercy and to re-dedicate our own lives.

Free registration to learn music online/ offline

Make your dream come true!
Music has always been your dream but you could never pursue it because of
non suitability of time, place, monitory funds This is the problem with a
lot of people, Is the same with you? If the answer is yes then solution is
at your door step;  Melody Music Academy. This Academy is giving you a
chance to learn  Vocal--Indian Classical,  Sufi,   Bollywood songs ,
special arrangements for  Wedding Songs, Ghazal,  Bhajan, Folk etc.
Guitar, Tabla, Flute, Sitar, Keyboard, Violin, Harmonium at your own

survey to understand the information seeking behavior of visually impaired people through camera-based assistive technologies.

Fri, 12/21/2018 - 11:56 -- geeta.nair

We are researchers from Microsoft Research Lab India conducting a survey to understand the information seeking behavior of visually impaired people through camera-based assistive technologies.

Registration for online coaching classes for maths, reasoning, english speaking and computer.

Fri, 12/21/2018 - 11:24 -- geeta.nair

Are you preparing for banking, insurance, civils and other government
competitive exams?
Are you searching for one solution for your preparation which can give you
maths, reasoning, english speaking and computer?
It's the right time to step forward smartly for preparing these all at one
place as per your convenience.
SMART STEP offers you all a chance to learn maths, reasoning, english
speaking and computer all at very affordable fees. Smart Step is an online
coaching institute offering students who are preparing for any competition

Visually impaired continue hunger strike

Fri, 12/21/2018 - 10:29 -- geeta.nair

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 20

Members of the Netraheen Kalyan Manch here today continued their hunger strike in protest against the state government for failing to fulfil their long-pending demands.

Spokesman of the Manch, Ravish Kumar, said the government had filled 136 posts against the total of 182 vacancies in the group D category for visually-impaired employees. The government had failed to fill the backlog of reserved posts since 1995, he added.

NVDA 2018.4

2018.4

Highlights of this release include performance improvements in recent Mozilla Firefox versions, announcement of emojis with all synthesizers, reporting of replied/forwarded status in Outlook, reporting the distance of the cursor to the edge of a Microsoft Word page, and many bug fixes.

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