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IBM software enhances web accessibility for the blind |
IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the power and time of Internet users around the globe to make the Web more accessible to the visually impaired.
Many blind or partially... |
Product and Technology |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Exhibit on blindness lets you see ... nothing |
If you were blind, couldyou navigate your way around a busy city street or distinguish betweena 1 bill and a 50 bill if you were trying to buy a beer at a bar?
These are some of the challenges... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Special care no longer a challenge |
To get a prosthetic limb attached or fix a hearing aid, residents of Dhubri will longer have to travel to Guwahati.
The Dhubri District DisabilityRehabilitation Centre was inaugurated at the district... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Conquering ability |
An office without a board. Thankfully, I have the right address to fallback on. But I miss the bell at the gate, and hopelessly go up and down the staircase for a while. Finally, a few hard knocks on... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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UN expert hails Qatar Central Bank initiative |
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disabilities, Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Thani, has commended the recent move by the Qatar Central Bank to introduce banknotes which have... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Northeast’s first "Talking Book Library" |
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General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Hari Puttar to be released in special audio form |
Filmmakers these days try each and every trick in the book to get maximum audiences to see their films. Now Mirchi Movies, the makers of the children's flick Hari Puttar- A Comedy of Terrors, is... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Visually-challenged teacher makes history |
T. Siddha Reddy, a visually-challenged teacher in political sciencewill head the Government Degree College at Nandikotkur as itsprincipal. Mr. Reddy is the first visually-challenged to become... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Now, visually challenged part of Bangalore's software boom |
Meet Murali C (28), a mechanical engineer and system operation lead specialist at IBM, and K. Joshi (27), a masters degree holder in philosophy now employed by software major Infosys.
They are just... |
Education and Employment |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Bangalore dance group of visually-impaired enthralls Brits |
To see is to believe but to see people who cannot see dance their way into the hearts of Brits is simply unbelievable.
A group of visually-impaired dancersfrom Bangalore, invited to the region by... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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