Ryan Ng - a final-year electronic engineering major - has created a smartphone application that might help visually-impaired people navigate around MTR stations easier.
He told RTHK that app can help a person find the nearest escalator and also know to which exit the escalator will lead to.
A new device that allows blind people to process visual images with their tongues can help them identify location, shape and size of various objects.
A total of 356 blind and visually impaired students at St. Oda Primary and secondary School for the Blind – Gem District, Siaya County will benefit from assistive learning technologies through an initiative dubbed “Computer Labs for the Blind” courtesy of a partnership between InAble, AccessKenya, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Kavita Kanan Chandra
The Assistive Technology Lab (ATL) at B. V. Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT), Narsapur, Medak dist, Telangana which is part of the Sri Vishnu Educational Society is a vision of Mr. K. V. Vishnu Raju, the Chairman of BVRIT, to utilize the skills of every engineering department of the college. During his visit to many universities in the United States, one thing that ignited his mind was the Assistive Technology Program at University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
A two-year special course for visually impaired students will be started at Braille Bhawan, Jamalpur. This course has been started jointly by the Centre’s National Institute for Visually Handicapped, Dehradun, and the Punjab Government. Applications have been sought for this special course with duration of two years.
Casey Burkhardt, Senior Software Engineer at Google in the Accessibility team revealed today that some of these features arrived in the latest Android Wear update.
PUNE: These 23 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC, standard XII) students from Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalaya (NAMV) have been through the most testing times in life: they have been visually impaired since birth, born in families with measly incomes and very little to sustain on.
New technology is set to give greater independence to blind and partially sighted people by radically enhancing their ability to navigate city centres.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A young man, by riding a two-wheeler without using his hands a few months ago, turned a few heads on the roads of Anad. What the onlookers might have mistaken as foolhardy heroics, was actually a test run for the prototype of ‘V4D’, a two-wheeler designed for people with limb disabilities.
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