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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.

National cricket tourney for blind inaugurated

Thu, 12/20/2018 - 10:42 -- geeta.nair

MECON CMD, Atul Bhatt today inaugurated the IndusInd Bank Nagesh National Cricket Tournament for Blind 2018 – 2019 in the presence of Director (Technical), MECON P K Sarangi. Bhatt opened the occasion with a welcome greeting to all the players from Tripura, Tamil Nadu , Gujarat and Jharkhand, the organisers from Cricket Association for the Blind, National referee and International Delegate from Holland.

computer course in Jaipur Rajasthan

Wed, 12/19/2018 - 13:06 -- geeta.nair

Rajasthan Netraheen Kalyan Sangh invites applications for basic computer course in Jaipur Rajasthan.
Following are the details for the course:-
Date: from 01/01/2019 to 30/04/2019,
Venue: - Rajasthan netraheen kalyan sangh, Jaipur
Eligibility criteria:- • Any visually challenged at least 12th pass by any recognized education board,
Can understand English / hindi as it is required to learn the computer concepts.
What’s in the course?

Visually-challenged teen pins down man who molested her on Mumbai local train

Wed, 12/19/2018 - 12:49 -- geeta.nair

A 15-year-old visually-challenged girl got a man, who molested her on a Mumbai local train, arrested. But, this was no plain arrest. The child, trained in self-defence and karate, caught her molester’s hand, and twisted it till he was forced down to his knees in pain.

Using mobile phones to educate visually-impaired students

Wed, 12/19/2018 - 12:39 -- geeta.nair

For 50 visually-impaired government school students aged between 14 and 16 years in Chhattisgarh, it marked the beginning of new hopes and a freedom from Braille. With the help of latest mobile technology, these excited children were trained to study their textbooks, helping them overcome their physical challenge in a way they did not think was possible before this. Each of them got a phone which had preloaded accessible textbooks, and they were taught to study these textbooks using latest mobile applications.   

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