The Delhi High Court has paved the way for three per cent reservation for the disabled in the Higher Judicial Service by giving directions for earmarking one of the advertised posts in the ongoing recruitment process. The post, to be clubbed with more reserved vacancies, will be filled up in the next recruitment exercise.

 
The Lechal shoe is the brainchild of two engineering students in Bangalore India and was originally designed to help visually impaired people Shoes are connected to a user’s smartphone via Bluetooth to ascertain a person’s current location as well as their destination.
 
They vibrate to tell the wearer to turn left or right. Shoes and insoles can be pre-ordered for $100
 

A visually impaired student met a watery grave in a pond of Suvarnamukhi temple near Bannerghatta where he had gone for a bath on Wednesday.

The deceased S. Nagraj (21), a resident of Tiptur, was a second year pre-university student in a city-based college and was staying at a hostel for visually impaired students near Bannerghatta.Nagraj along with his friends went to the Suvarnamukhi temple to pray and later to bathe in the pond near the temple .

Blind and visually impaired users called for greater efforts to increase accessibility of digital media and for more research and development efforts. At the Arab region’s first technology summit for people who are blind or visually impaired, the community said that public and private sector organisations need to do more to make their websites fully accessible to people with a disabilities.

The meeting was organised by Mada, the Qatar Assistive Technology Centre, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Doha.