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Satellite technology helps blind students <br>in Gujarat prepare for board examinations |
Back in October 2005, eyeNews reported on Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) EDUSAT project in Gujarat that gave visually impaired people a chance to access the latest information. The good... |
Education and Employment |
26/Jul/2012 |
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New software helps colour-blind people |
Like many colour-blind people who have adapted all their lives to a particular way of seeing things, Harry Rogers feels his inability to discern red and green hasn't caused him much trouble over the... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Guidelines to make websites more accessible to disabled people |
Disability Rights Commission (D.R.C.), U.K., has called upon disabled internet users to rise up against inaccessible website owners and help it take complaints with the force of law. The step from D.... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Chicago blind students forced to take driving lessons to graduate |
Mayra Ramirez is blind. She knows she's never going to drive. She can think of a lot of things she'd rather be studying than rules of the road, but she didn't have a choice. Blind students in Chicago... |
Education and Employment |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Key genes found to arrest A.M.D. |
A team led by New York’s Columbia University, is hopeful that their work could help aid the development of the new treatment for Age-related Macular Degeneration (A.M.D.).
According to a research,... |
Medical |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Gujarat wins 13th blind cricket tournament |
Gujarat won the 13th ‘National Cricket Tournament for the Blind’ defeating Haryana in the finals at the Chinaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on March 5, 2006.
The tournament also became a platform to... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Authors and publishers urged to make their work accessible |
"Reading means the world to me and I can’t imagine what it would be like, to be denied this pleasure,” said children’s laureate Jacqueline Wilson. She is urging fellow writers to make their... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Mumbai school teaches Judo to blind students |
At the National Judo Championship held between February 25 –26, 2006 in Mumbai, 30 students of ‘Happy Home and School for the Blind’, Mumbai demonstrated that judo wasn’t something, which they took... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Jul/2012 |
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‘Visionary Design Awards’ felicitate accessible web sites |
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Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Advanced eye care centre at P.G.I. Chandigarh |
A state-of-the-art eye care centre that would house facilities; equipment and expertise related to eye care under one roof has been inaugurated at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and... |
Medical |
26/Jul/2012 |
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