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The National Book Trust has started publishing books in Braille and digital formats for blind readers, NBI chairman Baldev Bhai Sharma said.
“We have published more than 100 e-books and four books in Braille as the new copyright rules have made it easier,” Mr Sharma said.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nbt-publishing-books-in-braille-digital-formats/article18462418.ece
BENGALURU: Among the 932 partcipants at Bengaluru 2017 Walk, an annual walkathon held in January, was Sowmya K Bhaskar, a human resource manager from Bengaluru who recently moved to Hyderabad. Being 90 per cent blind, Sowmya has crossed out walkathon from her bucket list as she completed a 50 km trail from Nandi Hills in 17 hours along with three of her colleagues.
Sowmya K Bhaskar along with her
team at the walkathon
By Shruti Pushkarna
Digital India is a transformational idea that needs to be exploited beyond its present scope to bring persons with blindness and visual impairment into the mainstream.
Digital Literacy, Digital Divide, Digital Inclusion. These terms are increasingly becoming a part of our conversational vocabulary, thanks to Prime Minister Modi’s flagship campaign, Digital India.
A one- day consultation as part of Voluntary National Review on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) was held here by international development organisation Sightsavers. The consultation was attended by more than 50 representatives of disability networks and groups working across the State. This year the progress on SDGs was reviewed. It addressed the concerns and voices of the persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the implementation of these global commitments and timeline.
NEW DELHI: Taking a big step towards making the campus disabled-friendly , Miranda House has become the first DU college to put up "digital vision signages" on its premises to help its 70 visually challenged students find their way across the college.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has registered 321 visually impaired candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Head, JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Bwari.
Benjamin said that the figure was higher than the 201 candidates registered for the examination in 2016.
He said that adequate arrangement has been made for the visually impaired candidates to participate fully in the forthcoming UTME.
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The National Mobile Service Provider, Mobitel plans to bring the light of joy to the visually impaired in the country during the Vesak season with the introduction of the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform to enable users to listen to the stories on display on five prominent Vesak Pandals in Colombo this year.
Users can call the short code 565 from any Mobitel number to listen to the stories free of charge from May 10 to 20, 2017.
A synthetic, soft tissue retina developed by an Oxford University student could offer fresh hope to visually impaired people.Until now, all artificial retinal research has used only rigid, hard materials. The new research, by Vanessa Restrepo-Schild, a 24 year old Dphil student and researcher at the Oxford University, Department of Chemistry, is the first to successfully use biological, synthetic tissues, developed in a laboratory environment.
The three-year action agenda document recently released by NITI Aayog is inaccessible to the visually impaired and those who use assistive technology for reading, say activists.
The plan proposes several policy changes for short-term implementation in India, and covers sectors such as agriculture, industry and manufacturing.
The document available on the organisation’s website, however, is inaccessible to many.
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The city is likely to get a Blind Football Academy (BFA), the first ever exclusive academy for differently-abled talents in the country soon.
The Society for Rehabilitation of Visually Challenged (SRVC) and the Indian Blind Federation (IBFF) are making an effort to establish the same.
Speakers at a dialogue in the city on Thursday demanded forming a separate ministry for persons with disabilities as it can take up special steps to ensure their rights and integrate them with the mainstream of development.
"We demand a separate ministry for persons with disabilities for their overall welfare," Access Bangladesh Foundation Chairperson CM Tufail Sami told the dialogue while presiding over it at CIRDAP auditorium.
State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan joined the dialogue as the chief guest.
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