Blind and visually-impaired people in the country can now read any printed Nepali characters using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which was launched on Monday.
The software, developed by two IT experts from the Kathmandu University (KU) for the Nepal Netra Joyti Sangh in financial support of the Australian government, was launched by Australian Ambassador to Nepal, Peter Budd, amid a function.
"My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her." - Hellen Keller
Mark Twain once called a lady ‘The Miracle Worker’. She was Anne Sullivan, the teacher and the lifelong companion of author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller. Sullivan was herself visually impaired and had a troubled childhood. But what Sullivan achieved was remarkable. She was the force behind one of the most influential women of the 20th century.
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Kullu, August 20
The District Red Cross Society organised a special eye camp for visually impaired children at the Regional, Hospital, Kullu today. The society has taken a special initiative in collaboration with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), Health Department, Indira Gandhi Medical College Administration and the Social Justice and Empowerment Department.
An overview of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project, a Cambridge, MA based initiative of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA's Heliophysics Education Consortium by Kelsey Perrett.
It is the duty of every institution to extend a helping hand to disabled persons, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
The observation by the apex court came while hearing a thalassaemia patient’s plea claiming that she falls under the category of persons with benchmark disability as prescribed under the provisions of the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar directed the Chhattisgarh government to constitute a medical board to ascertain whether the petitioner, Sruchi Rathore, would fall under the ambit of the Act.
BENGALURU: While the Internet has become a basic human necessity, the blind and visually impaired have little means to access it. As a way to help such people, a group of engineers from the city have built a device that converts online text into braille.
Called Sparsh, the device uses electro-mechanical technology that reproduces the content of a smartphone or a computer on a rolling display in braille. Powered by a Dynamic Braille Board or dBB, it enables streaming of digital data into its equivalent braille output in real-time.
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A visually-impaired computer programmer was barred from giving a test for a government-certified programmer when the state-run institute that was conducting it sent him back for not bringing a writer with him.
Originally from West Bengal, the 26-year-old Varun Mehato had gone to give his CCC exam conducted by National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), an entity under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the payment of special bursary for visually impaired students of the state origin studying in tertiary institutions.
He gave the approval when the executive members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Benin City.
New Delhi, Aug 9 (UNI) In a unique initiative, Zee Entertainment will premiere Aamir Khan's 'Dangal' with audio description for the benefit of the visually impaired people.
The premiere of 'Dangal' is party of 'Zee for All', an initiative by ZEE to make content on television accessible for the Visually and Hearing Impaired.
'#ZEEForAll' is an effort from Zee to provide audiences who have a sensory handicap, with unparalleled access to entertainment that is currently enjoyed by millions of Indians with sight.
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