BENGALURU: Swachh Bengaluru is woefully short of disabled-friendly toilets. A quick survey of busy spots, across the city, found that most did not have such a facility.
The few disabled-friendly toilets were locked away or badly maintained. Ramps and railings were missing in most places and we were not able to spot even one braille signage.
The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities to hold a meeting in 10 days to ensure that all government buildings are made disabled-friendly.
The concept of inclusion is considered important in all fields nowadays. Inclusive education for differently-abled children is one such attempt to include children with various kinds of disabilities in normal schools. The idea is that through inclusive education, differently-abled children will get an opportunity to mingle with normal children from an early age. It will help increase their confidence level, improving their competency, and they will be able to boldly express their talent before others.
SINGAPORE — In the past, Mr Danny Chia, who is partially visually impaired, had to be accompanied by a friend to help him out with basic transactions, such as cash withdrawals, at an automatic teller machine.
If he was alone and had to seek a stranger’s help, he had to tell the person how much money he wanted to withdraw and also be assisted with keying in his PIN number.
Today, Mr Chia, 56, will no longer need such help, thanks to POSB’s “talking ATMs”.
Until recently, blind and visually impaired students in Kenya were still using Braille books for their studies. But Kenyan schools for the blind are now beginning to adopt technology that provides material in a audible form — and in the process expands their opportunities.
Cricket is a passion with the masses. Why should those who cannot see the ball clearly be denied their high? The All India Cricket Tournament for the Blind 2016 attempts to give fully blind and partially blind cricket enthusiasts their place in the sun.
As all of you know, this screen reader is open source, and easily available. Features of the workshop.
1. To Download and install this additional package of add-ons.
2. To increase the flexibility and extendibility of NVDA.
3. To enhance the usability and function ability of existing copy of NVDA.
LAHORE: Traffic was blocked for hours by two groups of protesters on Monday along a segment of the Canal Road and the Metro Bus route along Ferozepur Road. The chief traffic police officer appointed two DSPs, four special squads, 14 patrolling officers and 116 traffic wardens to maintain smooth flow of traffic at the site of the protests and wardens set up diversions on roads and chowks leading to protest sites. Scores of visually-impaired people from various districts of the Punjab had gathered at Kalma Chowk on Monday morning and staged a protest on the Metro Bus track.
Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh is preparing to consolidate its operations under one Uptown roof — and place a community garden, trees and dog park on the rooftop.
“We really believe the new building is going to increase the number of people who go through the (organization's Personal Adjustment to Blindness) program,” said President Erika Arbogast.
This step has been taken by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) and Minister of School Education, Vinod Tawde, with the view of bringing about changes for students with special needs in the state.
The Uttarakhand division of Archaeological Survey of India is adding a new section on its website, complete with voice commands and recorded narration, to allow visually impaired users to access information on heritage sites of the hill state. The move by the Uttarakhand division of ASI, also known as Dehradun Circle, is a first across the archaeological circles in the country.
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, which comes under the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, does not have any information on the employment among the disabled persons in the country, according to a reply to a query filed by The Indian Express under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in September last year.
“Information related to the percentage of employment of disabled persons is not available,” the RTI reply says.
Mention the words ‘practice session’ and it conjures up image of players in coloured clothes, photo-op for fans or the air of pre-match excitement. And if you were at the cricket stadium near Aluva, which currently hosts the practice sessions of a national team, your applause would resound a lot louder when the players stepped on to the ground.
Do the blind live in a world of darkness? Or is theirs an imaginary world with visuals? Some, especially those who’ve been born blind, have stated that their world is indeed dark and visuals are at times thrust on them. Others, like Shakila Maharaj, one of the delegates at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2016, talk about an imaginary world that’s far from dark.
In India, the people with disabilities are addressed by many denominations interchangeably. Since the mid-1980s, patronising terms such as “differently abled” and “specially abled” have been quite common in public parlance. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his last Mann ki Baat, broadcast on December 27, 2015, appealed to the public to adopt the use of the term “divyang” (divine body) to address persons with disabilities.
FUSION a face to face social networking platform for people with and without disabilities! 3rd January 2016, witnessed the 16th meet of Fusion! As you may be aware, Fusion was launched on 10th November 2013 at the India International Center New Delhi! We are ever so grateful to the IIC Delhi for supporting the Fusion event by providing the space for the same! Fusion has succeeded to directly touch lives of over 300 people this far!
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