Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday distributed free laptop computers to visually impaired students at a function organised in his home office Krishna in Bengaluru. This move by the government is aimed at encouraging visually impaired students to pursue higher education and making them self-sufficient. With this, the government has fulfilled its promise of distributing laptops to 1,000 students from Class 10 and above as announced in the budget. 

We seldom spare a thought for the simplest of things that could be within our reach but remain out of our mind.

This new app can help the visually challenged type quickly and efficiently on an iPad. Created by Stanford engineer Sohan Dharmaraja, the app named IBrailler Notes uses eight keys. What’s different about it is that the keys form around the fingertips when they’re placed on the screen. Which means that if a user loses his way, he simply lifts his fingers from the screen and places them down again.

In Zimbabwe digital tools will help learning of the visually impaired students: thanks to a project of University of Zimbabwe Library in cooperation with European non-for-profit organization EIFL  (Electronic Information for Libraries). The project was really appreciated by the users and the University community, and also it is going to be disseminated in all Zimbabwe and other African countries.

To make solving numerical problems less taxing for visually-impaired students, Delhi University (DU) is developing specialised mathematical kits, which will make it much easier for them to study the subject. Th