A DANCER in a black ball gown tosses her head back, exposing an elegant neckline, and delicately lifts the sides of her ruffled skirt just enough to reveal the tip of one of her feet.
This early oil painting by Eugen Spiro (1874-1972) is one of a group of artworks that have been made accessible to blind people as part of a new exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie.
Peter Holley Watching Fernando Albertorio stroll down a crowded footpath into downtown Washington during a recent lunch hour, casually sidestepping pedestrians running errands and crowding around food trucks, you'd have no idea he is legally blind.
Albertorio easily blends into the flow of human traffic swirling around him, which is even more remarkable considering that he is doing so largely without the use of his limited vision.
Panaji: H R Sandesh of Bengaluru-based organisation 'Enable India' is visually impaired, and is aware that the blind in today's age cannot be self-sufficient unless trained in the use of computers.
Yet since 2005 thousands of blind and visually impaired people have seized the chance of its sensory and sociable trips to discover places where once access for them was off limits.
Now thanks to entrepreneur Latif if they fancy rambling along the spiralling paths of Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel high among the Peruvian Andes, they can.
KAKINADA: With the State government applying the norm of ‘One pension for one family’, thousands of disabled persons are unable to get pensions. Nearly 15,000 disabled have not been able to get pensions since 2014.
The authorities have said that they are unable to do anything in the wake of government policy.
There are 19,388 disabled persons, 22,470 persons with hearing impairment, 35,389 physically challenged, 10,179 blind persons, 13,601 persons with multiple disabilities and 14,000 persons with other disabilities in East Godavari district.
A cab, a meal, a new outfit, bank transactions are just a few screen taps away with smartphones. But navigating the digital world can be slow and cumbersome for a visually-impaired person.
Identifying this problem, entrepreneur and engineer Vijay Raghav Varada has developed a Braille keypad called 'Tipo’ which can be attached to smartphones to improve accessibility.
Vijay has been interested in making devices accessible to the blind since 2014 and it was while working on a project on Braille laptops for keyboards that he learnt of the smartphone problem.
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“The spark from fireworks can damage eyelids and eyebrows. The eye may also lose its moisture due to the smoke emitted by crackers,” said Dr Shashidhar, ophthalmologist, Minto Eye Hospital.
He added that an eye specialist should be consulted whenever there is an injury instead of attempting self-medication.
“Children under the age of 15 years should not be allowed to play with crackers that may cause injuries,” he added.
Tribune News Service
Shimla, October 13
There will be extensive use of 27 IT solutions during the polling for the 68 Assembly segments on November 9 with webcasting from 2,000 booth, including the 51 vulnerable ones, and first time use of Braille voter slips for the visually impaired.
Lahore: Visually-impaired protesters from different parts of the province once again took to the streets on Monday to demand regular jobs and payment of salaries.
A large number gathered in front of the Lahore Press Club (LPC) and shouted slogans against the government. They blocked the main road in front of the LPC and this caused a traffic situation on Davis Road, Durand Road, Empress Road, Egerton Road and adjoining areas.
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