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Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’

There is now a free iOS app that enables the blind, visually impaired, and color blind, understand their surroundings through object and color recognition. Optimised for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, the app allows users to toggle between its two main functions: object recognition, and color recognition. AppAdvice reports, however, that the app’s object recognition is a little hit and miss, although color recognition seems to work flawlessly. Aipoly Vision’s developer says,

The bionic eye changing a woman's life

At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a clinical trial is taking place in which six patients who have had little or no sight for many years are having a cutting-edge "bionic eye" implanted in an attempt to give them some sight, and independence, back. The first patient in this trial is 49-year-old Rhian Lewis, from Cardiff. She explains: "I was a toddler when my parents noticed I would not cross a darkened room, even from one light room to another light room, and that I was really scared of the dark.

Louis Braille’s birth anniversary: In a first, visually-impaired man reads news on AIR Pune

IT WAS a routine broadcast schedule for the listeners of All India Radio (AIR) on Monday morning, when presenter Manoj Kshirsagar started the regional news bulletin at 7.10 am in his distinctive voice. However, halfway into the bulletin, Kshirsagar said that he would now pass on the microphone to Dhanraj Patil, a representative of Pune Blind Men’s Association, who will complete the bulletin by reading the news in braille.

World Braille Day: 9 facts about the Braille Code and the man behind it

Louis Braille, the developer of Braille Code, was born on January 4 in 1809. The day is celebrated as World Braille Day.

Technology beyond Braille has come in handy for many

While hailing the revolutionary discovery of Louis Braille as being a fundamental necessity that helped them overcome barriers, some of the visually challenged professionals in the city feel that technology interventions have also helped them think beyond Braille in several walks of life.

Bengaluru’s first industrial Braille press in HSR Layout

The city is all set to get its own industrial-scale Braille press in HSR Layout, which is also set to print the first Braille magazine in the State.

Mitra Jyothi, an NGO working for the visually challenged from the past 25 years, has been granted Rs. 1-crore Braille press by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment as part of a programme to establish 16 Braille press across the country in 2015.

WAITING FOR YEARS TO GET A BRAILLE EMBOSSER

Computerised Braille embosser may have replaced the manual Braille typewriter bringing down the laborious work of producing a Braille book.

Taking eye care to every corner of rural India

Jayant Sriram explores the thriving social entrepreneurship model of Aravind Eye Care

STATE HAS 12.44L DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS

Chief Secretary AP Padhi visited and reviewed the activities of the newly-formed Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability Department on Wednesday.

Assistant Manager Grade ‘A’ - General Stream

SIDBI

HEAD OFFICE: SIDBI TOWER, 15 ASHOK MARG,

LUCKNOW - 226001

disabled candidates from all over the Mumbai

Micro Finance Company

We Need around 200 disabled candidates from all over the Mumbai for a Micro Finance Company.

Assistant Professor

Satyawati College (Eve.)

(Universityof Delhi)

Ashok Vihar, Phase-III, Delhi-110052

PhoneNo.: 011-27213402, Fax: 011-27130356,

Website:www.satyawatievedu.ac.in

Ref. No. SCE/Dec-2015/TP

Stenographer

Ordnance Factory,

Tiruchirapalli,

Tamilnadu,

Pin-620016

A Unit of Ordnance Factory Board

Indian Ordnance Factories

Ministry of Defence

Phone: 0431-2581291 to 296

Fax No. 0431-2581136,

Email: oft.ofb@nic.in

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for further information and application format, kindly refer to the Employment News dated 26 December 2015, page no. 12

Fusion programme

The 14th Fusion meet is being held on 3rd January 2016.

Enquiry-cum-Reservation Clerk, Junior Accounts Assistant-cum-typist and Senior Clerk-cum-Typist

Government of India

Ministry of Railways

Railway Recruitment Board (RRB)

Software needed to help visually challenged’

Charudatta V. Jadhav, president of the All-India Chess Federation for the Blind, said on Saturday that it was essential to develop an online software to help visually challenged chess players to improve their skills in the game.

WILL ACT AGAINST CORRUPT BABUS WITHIN 24 HRS: MIN

Social Welfare Minister Louis Marandi said that she will take action within 24 hours, if any official or staff of her department was found involved in any kind of irregularity.

Helpline launched for people with vision disabilities in India

NEW DELHI: Now people with vision disabilities in India can call a toll free number and get their queries addressed in their local language, thanks to an initiative launched on Monday.

Lov Verma, secretary in the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, formally launched the Eyeway Helpdesk for people who are blind.

This is an initiative of Score Foundation with support from the central government, Essel Foundation, Tech Mahindra Foundation and Hans Foundation.

Government Launches Toll-Free 'Eyeway National Helpdesk' for Visually Impaired Citizens of India

Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Shri Lov Verma, formally launched the ‘Eyeway National Helpdesk’ for the blind and visually impaired at the Department Headquarters in Paryavaran Bhawan. Eyeway National Helpdesk is an initiative of Score Foundation with support from the Department and other organizations like Essel Foundation, Tech Mahindra Foundation and the Hans Foundation.

Helpdesk launched for the blind in India

New Delhi: 21st December 2015 (IANS) : Now the visually impaired in India can call a toll free number and get their queries addressed in their local language, thanks to an initiative launched on Monday.

Lov Verma, secretary in the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, formally launched the Eyeway Helpdesk for the blind.

This is an initiative of Score Foundation with support from the central government, Essel Foundation, Tech Mahindra Foundation and Hans Foundation.

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Jayant Sriram explores the thriving social entrepreneurship model of Aravind Eye Care

The 14th Fusion meet is being held on 3rd January 2016.

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