The multimedia browsing accessibility tool hasn't been named yet. "Chieko Asakawa, a senior accessibility researcher at IBM who has been blind since the age of 14, spearheaded the development of the new software out of frustration with streaming video," IW says. It was designed at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory.

The new multimedia browsing accessibility tool offers people with visual impairment the same multimedia control features sighted people see and operate with a mouse.

Blind artist Binod Behari Mukherjee is remembered as an eminent artist who helped make Santiniketan the most important centre of art in India.

Now his precious pieces of art are displayed at an exhibition at National Gallary for Modern Art, New delhi.

A blind Tokyo masseur will put his healing hands to work as a volunteer at a facility for the physically disabled in Malaysia with the hope he can "pass techniques on and make a difference."

Saburo Sasada was due Tuesday to head to Malaysia on a two-year stint as a senior overseas volunteer for the Japan International Cooperation Agency. According to the agency, he is the first totally blind volunteer it has sent abroad for an extended period.

The Leeds-based tour operator was born out of entrepreneur Amar Latif's frustration at the lack of options available to blind travellers.

When Amar Latif discovered that the sort of travel experiences he was looking for didn’t exist for blind travellers, he was faced with two options. He could either do without, or organise them himself. Not being afraid of a challenge he decided on the latter option and in April 2005 the Leeds-based tour operator Traveleyes was born.