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Google Voice Access Beta app, other features announced to help users with disabilities

When the Disabled Fired the Bullet!

CHENNAI: Tap, tap, tap!’ the sound of metal pellets being fired and tearing through paper targets was relentless. As was the sight of seated shooters putting in their entire focus to pull the trigger and hit the bull’s eye. This was the scene on the third and final day of the Chennai Para Shooting Camp at Chennai Rifle Club, Egmore, which was attended by 28 persons with disabilities (PwDs) across Tamil Nadu.

Facebook rolls out app that describes photos to blind users

Facebook is training its computers to help blind and visually impaired people scroll through the pictures posted on the world’s largest online social network.

Visually impaired Jagadguru a messiah for others

Programme for visually impaired students held

A two-day programme for students of Red Cross School for the Blind in Berhampur, Odisha, ended on Thursday. They were taught to use meditation and music as catalysts to eradicate inferiority complex and build a better personality to face the world.

Bank Directed to Block 4 Posts for Visually Impaired

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed Pandyan Grama Bank to reserve four posts for visually impaired people.

How to make blind people ‘see’ films: it’s really not that hard

Microsoft outlines intelligence vision for Windows 10

Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday outlined the technology giant’s vision to combine the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence as he announced new updates to the operating system Windows 10 to create more personal computing for every customer.

Disability certificate: New criteria, software glitches mar process

At 19 years of age, Datta Baban Gawli, a vendor earning his living in local trains at Daund, suffered an accident and it led to the amputation of both his legs. Not one to give up, he got a tricycle wheelchair and started selling goods again. He availed a disability certificate from Sassoon general hospital to ensure that he could use the tricycle wheelchair in the train.

The new Persons with Disability Bill 2016 would be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament.

Varanasi: Chief commissioner for persons with disabilities Kamlesh Kumar said that the new Persons with Disability Bill 2016 would be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament.