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Ballot papers for visually impaired

Mon, 01/30/2017 - 10:49 -- geeta.nair

Chandigarh: Visually challenged voters will be able to exercise their franchise as the Election Commission is providing 26,773 ballot papers in Punjabi Braille script. The ballot papers will be available at all polling booths. On the orders of the Chief Electoral Officer, the Institute for the Blind here is printing the papers. Institute chairman Maj Gen Rajendra Nath said they had been printing the papers since 2009. A total of 1,900 papers are being prepared for the Amritsar Lok Sabha byelection and 24,873 for the Vidhan Sabha elections. 

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National Anthem norms for disabled

Fri, 01/27/2017 - 11:54 -- geeta.nair

New Delhi: Differently-abled people, who are unable to stand, will have to display “maximum attentiveness” while persons with hearing disabilities and those visually challenged will have to stand up when the national anthem is played at cinema halls or at a public function. These are part of the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The only category for which there is some relaxation is people with intellectual disabilities. PTI

Unsung heroes on Padma Shri honours list too

Fri, 01/27/2017 - 11:30 -- geeta.nair

New Delhi, January 25

Nonogenarian Bhakti Yadav, popularly known as “Doctor Dadi” from Indore, and captain of Indian cricket team of the blind Shekhar Naik are among the unsung heroes named for Padma Shri.

The focus this year, according to the officials in the Home Ministry, was recognising talent of unknown and unsung heroes of the country.

India’s blind cricket team battle odds ahead of T20 WC

Fri, 01/27/2017 - 11:22 -- geeta.nair

Sabi Hussain

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 25

In the quiet bylanes of the national capital’s Lodhi Estate, at the Delhi Tamil Education Association’s (DTEA) senior secondary school’s ground, an enthusiastic and confident bunch of Indian cricketers have been busy giving finishing touches to their preparation for the challenging World Cup T20 tournament.

Cricketers pledge for organ donation

Fri, 01/27/2017 - 11:05 -- geeta.nair

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 21

Many visually challenged cricketers pledged for organ donation by filling up donor forms or registered themselves as blood donors. The organ and blood donation camp was organised by the ROTTO PGIMER in collaboration with the Shri Shiv Kanwar Mahasangh Charitable Trust, an NGO. The camp was organised on the sidelines of the National Cricket Tournament for the Blind being held by the Blind Cricket Association at Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Sector 2, Panchkula, today.

Audex (Audible Access)!

Wed, 01/25/2017 - 11:10 -- geeta.nair

Audex (Audible Access)!
This app is available on playstore now, and I hope that it will be very useful for everyone and everybody will like it too! (Especially People who are frustrated/annoyed/fed up with the talkback’s irritating earcons!).
It's the time to turn talkback earcons off forever and time to turn on Audex!
So, this app will start fulfilling your wish of nice earcons/event sounds from today.
(Every suggestions and feedbacks are heartily welcomed)!
Below is the Playstore URL and whole description of the app.
So, here you go!:

Students educated on assistive technology

Tue, 01/24/2017 - 12:48 -- geeta.nair

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 23

A guest lecture was conducted by Prof M Balakrishna from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT- Delhi, at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Katra today.

He talked about assistive technology for the differently abled and the problems being faced by the visually impaired in their daily life.

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