Credit Suisse aims to become the most accessible bank in Switzerland. Therefore the bank is clearing obstacles: Steps are being removed from branch entrances, ATMs are getting a voice, and applications and web portals are being reprogrammed.
Dave Heeley, 49, will begin his Seven Magnificent Marathons Challenge on April 7, with the aim of increasing awareness of visual impairment around the globe and raising funds for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
His gruelling week begins in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (Antarctica), followed by Santiago, Chile (South America), Los Angeles, USA (North America), Sydney, Australia(Australasia), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Asia) and Nairobi, Kenya (Africa).
The final leg will bring him back to Europe, where he will run the Flora London Marathon on April 13.
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National Institute of Open Schooling (N.I.O.S.)
Braille maps are to be introduced in Princesshay in Exeter city centre following successful trials.The maps have been designed to help the blind and partially-sighted navigate the four sections of the shopping centre. They have been tested since September by two local volunteers and the finalised versions are now available from the Exeter Tourist Information Centre. The idea was first proposed by information centre workers. A spokesman for the project said: "There was quite a demand for it as there are no other Braille facilities for this area.
A Newcastle specialist centre for blind and partially sighted people was declared an example to the rest of the country by David Blunkett yesterday.
The Sheffield MP who has been blind since birth praised the state-of-the-art learning facility at Newcastle College in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
The former Home Secretary and Education Secretary met some of the students who use the centre and had a tour of the facility in the Armstrong Building with his guide dog Sadie.
Clarity LLC, manufacturers of assistive technologies for the visually impaired is set to launch the Rio, the newest in its Next Generation product line. The latest in portable technology, the lightweight Rio magnifier offers incredible magnification for a multitude of functions. At only 1.5 pounds, the self contained Rio provides 7 inches of viewing space, and up to 5 hours of battery life.
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NAB Delhi: Integrated Education Programme
Pioneering transplants to restore the sight of people affected by the leading cause of blindness in the Western world could start in three years, after successful human cell implants in pigs.
The animals look a little human, now that they have a lawn of human cells growing in an area about size of about half of a little fingernail at the back of their eyes, which are ideal for testing treatments before they are used on people.
Special schools or inclusive education?
Great expectations are for everyone. Children with disabilities and their families have dreams, visions and anticipations as anybody else would have.
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.
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