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N.A.S.A. releases Braille book on Sun |
On December 2, 2005, National Federation of the Blind (N.F.B.) in Baltimore, U.S.A. hosted an interactive opportunity for a select group of blind students to explore the sun through a new and... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Visually impaired testers set the standard at Czech accessibility lab |
Page Accessibility Labs (P.A.L.) offers the experience of its visually impaired test specialists to conduct website accessibility testing. Their work ensures websites are as convenient as possible... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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State Government fails disabled people |
In spite of a Government notification that reserved 3 per cent of posts for persons with disabilities in Groups A and B and 5 per cent in Groups C and D, the quotas are not being filled properly.... |
Education and Employment |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Tactile photo exhibition held in Singapore |
In Singapore, a photo exhibition was organised where photographs were converted into tactile displays with captions in Braille exclusively for visually impaired people. This first endeavour has been... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Tata Interactive Systems hosts conference on accessible e-learning |
‘Ensuring e-learning materials are fully accessible to anyone especially those with physical or learning disabilities’ was the subject of a conference held in London late last year. The invited... |
Education and Employment |
26/Jul/2012 |
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President awards developers of Indian language text to speech software |
‘Prologix Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.’ which developed the local language speech synthesis software 'Vaachak' was felicitated with the National Technology Award by the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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World Disability Day celebrations |
On World Disability Day (December 3), President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the National Awards for the Welfare of Persons With Disabilities 2005. On the occasion, President Kalam asked the... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Cell transplant stems vision loss |
Five-year-old Dinesh rubbed his eye while handling a paan sachet, which contained chunna (white limestone powder, also used for whitewashing). The eye became so watery and red that he had to be... |
Medical |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Court drags bank for denying access to visual disabled |
Are banks empowered enough to put restrictions on blind customers thereby depriving the latter of the right to operate their accounts like any other ‘normal’ (non visually impaired) person? That’s... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Mr. Perfect 10 |
Alex Loch of Maple has won several medals, over the years, in gymnastics - but what may be more impressive is his mettle to overcome visual impairment.
Loch has ‘rod monochromatism’, an eye disorder... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Jul/2012 |
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