At a ceremony at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
A new electric brailler for visually impaired people will be available in the country in February, says the South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB).
Microsoft Corp. and a consortium that promotes open standards for “digital talking books” are set to release to the open source community specifications that would allow visually impaired people to navigate through multimedia content.
Microsoft and the Daisy (Digital Accessible Information System) Consortium have been collaborating on a free, downloadable plug-in for Microsoft Word that would convert open Extensible Markup Language (openXML)-supported documents into a friendlier format accessible to people with visual, physical, perceptual, cognitive or even learning disability.
It's a visual spectacular, but that did not stop 300 blind and partially-sighted children enjoying the delights of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The Royal National Institute for the Blind brought the youngsters to a special performance of the CS Lewis classic being staged at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. The children met and interacted with the characters from the magical world of Narnia, including the White Witch, Aslan the lion, Mr and Mrs Beaver and the four evacuated children – all of whom were in full costume. They then experienced the wonder of the production.
The Association for Cricket for the Blind in India will be hosting a two day meeting of representatives from Asian countries on the 19th and 20th of July, 2008 at Bangalore. The meeting is being called to discuss strategies, plans, and programmes to promote blind cricket in the Asia Region. Presently, the game is played in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. It is hoped that countries like China, Malaysia, Maldives, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan will also take part.
The Open Society Institute, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the
United Kingdom Department for International Development, and an anonymous donor today announced a groundbreaking collaborative to support the human rights for people with disabilities.
The National Association for the Blind, India (NAB) in association with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has launched a Specialized Cyber Café for the visually impaired in New Delhi.
COIMBATORE: A ‘talking book library’ will come to the help of visually impaired students here since learning through Braille system is “difficult for them.”
The library, which will be called ‘Bharathi-Rotary Talking Book Library’, will be set up by the Bharathiar University (BU) with the support of a Rotary Club. It will be opened in a month at a private college in the city.
BHUBANESWAR: In a big boost to visually challenged students, the Orissa Association for the Blind here has installed a computarised Braille production machine, promising supply of study materials with updated curriculum round the year.
The machine, donated by KAS Foundation, has the capacity to generate 250 pages an hour, much more than the existing manual Braille printing machine in Berhampur.
Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, India’s one of the leading eye care provider, has successfully performed Intraocular lens (IOL) implant on Anandhi, who is just 4 years, using glued IOL technology. For the first time in the World, tissue glue has been used to fix an intraocular lens in an eye, where Intraocular lenses cannot be implanted. This new surgical procedure was invented & performed by Prof. Amar Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Chennai.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Danielsen fidgets with the cell phone, holding it over a 20 bill.
"Detecting orientation, processing U.S. currency image," the phone says in a flat monotone before Danielsen snaps a photo. A few seconds later, the phone says, "Twenty dollars."
Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind, is holding the next generation of computerized aids for the blind and visually impaired.
Applian Technologies' Replay AV was the only mainstream software nominated in the Best Software category in the Blind Bargains 2007 Access Awards last week. The other software nominated in the best software category was specifically designed for blind users. Although, Replay AV didn't win the award the program's inclusion in the top four Best Software category is a testament to the efforts Applian Technologies has put into making their products accessible to the blind.
A master degree student has developed talking books for the blind and is willing to disseminate the method to making them for others to produce teaching materials for the blind.
The blind students can hear birds chirping and learn the information of each kind of bird by touching the Braille alphabet and reliefs of bird pictures. Self-learning with talking books makes it fun for children. Before these books, they thought the sound of bird’s chirping was all similar.
Brian McKeever won his second gold medal at an IPC World Cup cross-country ski stop in Vuokatti, Finland on Tuesday.
McKeever, of Canmore, Alta., clocked 26 minutes 59.8 seconds to win the 10-kilometre race for the visually impaired with his brother Robin guiding the way to the golden spot on the podium. The pair also teamed up to win a 20-km race Sunday.
Russian skier Nikolay Polukhin was second and Frank Hoefle of Germany was third Tuesday. McKeever beat both men by more than three minutes.
A new vision research center opening in India today becomes the latest in a handful of facilities dedicated to exploring the potential of adult eye stem cells to repair vision damage. The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C-TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged
A new contact lens embedded with electronic circuits could be the seed for "bionic eyes" that can see displays overlaid on a person's field of view, researchers say.
The minute circuitry could aid the vision-impaired or could be used to create tiny but discernible readouts offering data such as driving directions or on-the-go Web surfing.
Researchers at the University of Washington created the flexible, biologically safe lens—the first of its kind—using nano-scale manufacturing techniques.
Score Foundation’s radio programme Eyeway - Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karwan has been adjudged the best radio programme in the category “Best Social Responsibility Initiative” at the inaugural Radio Duniya Award 2008 held on February 12, 2008, at Intercontinental - The Grand, New Delhi.
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