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 avoided.
“For a disabled person, using the pavements in Chennai is a nightmarish experience,” says Rajiv Ranjan, member, Disability Rights Alliance (DRA).
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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 university, the research scholar in Tamil Literature stumbled upon a political party’s hoarding on a footpath near Kannagi statue near Marina beach.
“I did not know there was a hoarding on the footpath. So I fell on the road. A bus came to a screeching halt a few inches beside me,” said Mr. Raja.
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 Stanford University to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer science, 18-year-old visually impaired Kartik Sawhney inspired at least 20 blind students to pursue maths and science, in a two-day workshop that ended Saturday.
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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 Intellectual Property Organisation that has now legalised the right to read for an estimated 314 million blind and print disabled. The most notable common provision in the new treaty and India’s copyright law is the waiver of prior approval from authors and publishers for the reproduction and distribution of works into any alternative format, precluding commercial gain.
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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 that could empower hundreds of special children is where the project is stuck.
An ambitious blueprint to set up an engineering college by the Devnar Foundation, with help from professors of BITS Pilani, along with 20 different digital and Braille software and initial funding arrangement is however ready.
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 that this was being done so that the students do not suffer in the four-year undergraduate programme, being implemented from July 24.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday extracted an assurance from the Delhi University that all grievances of visually impaired students especially regarding mandatory courses in mathematics and science will be addressed before the commencement of the four-year programme later this month.
Satisfied with the steps promised by the Delhi University to ensure visually impaired students have full access to its teaching experience when the four-year programme starts, the Delhi high court on Wednesday disposed of a PIL raising the issue.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in adults over the age of 50, according to the National Eye Institute, and can lead in visual blurriness so intense that it causes
A device for people with visual impairments that scans documents such as newspapers and magazines and reads them aloud has been launched in India.
ClearView+ Speech, which was developed by Netherlands-based firm Optelec, will be marketed across the country by BarrierBreak Technologies, an Indian accessibility and assistive technology firm.
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The treaty will make access to books for the visually impaired, blind and print disabled easier
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