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Desire2Learn’s blind workers help make better accessibility tools for classrooms |
Education startups don’t typically have money to burn. But Desire2Learn is an exception; it recently raised $80 million, the largest-ever venture investment in a Canadian software company.
What’s the... |
Education and Employment |
11/Jul/2013 |
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Poorvanchal gets first talking ATM |
The district got its first talking ATM machine designed specially to facilitate its visually challenged customers. This is also the first talking ATM in Poorvanchal. The ATM machine, installed by the... |
Product and Technology |
10/Jul/2013 |
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Device that can help blind 'see' through ears |
How well can you 'see' with your ears? Scientists claim to have developed a "revolutionary" new device that helps blind people 'see' by using sounds to build an image in their minds of the things... |
Science & technology |
10/Jul/2013 |
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For the disabled, footpaths are a nightmare |
If you are able to walk and see and are a determined pedestrian, Chennai’s apology for footpaths might still be negotiable. However, for those with disabilities, footpaths such as these are best... |
General |
09/Jul/2013 |
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On disability, missing the bigger picture |
There is reason to be optimistic about the U.N. report on disability rights, but there is also disappointment at its failure to make the poverty connection
The disability movement has waited... |
Policy News |
08/Jul/2013 |
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Exnora organises walk for awareness on barrier-free pavements |
A number people at the walk stressed the need for coordination among various civic agencies for better footpaths in Chennai
Visually-impaired R. Raja escaped death two months ago. On his way to... |
General |
08/Jul/2013 |
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Impairment no impediment for this teenager |
Audio-graphs that can represent actual data-graphs are one of the many technological wonders that a group of blind students learnt about from a Delhi-based teenager this weekend. On his way to... |
Education and Employment |
08/Jul/2013 |
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Affirming the right to read |
Despite our otherwise imperfect record in recognising the rights of people with disabilities, it is a matter of some pride that India’s copyright law anticipates the Marrakesh Treaty of the World... |
Policy News |
04/Jul/2013 |
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World's first engineering college for blind soon |
The students are waiting and the software and syllabus is ready for the world's first engineering college for the visually impaired, but a search for suitable land to set up the multi-crore campus... |
Education and Employment |
04/Jul/2013 |
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Visually impaired students will get laptops in 4yr programme |
The Delhi University today informed the High Court that all the visually impaired students will be given laptops fitted with Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) software.
The university told the court... |
Education and Employment |
04/Jul/2013 |
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