Education and Employment

Blind faith and hard work got these girls to the top

Braille stays untouched as a click, a tap grow popular

Swati*, a 15-year-old visually challenged girl, runs her fingers over the shuffled dots of a Braille book, attempting to understand a sequence of dots. Every time she touches it, she tries to relate it with pictures or events she has heard about. "I was never taught Braille. I have been tutored only through audio lessons," said Swati, who touched a Braille book for the first time.

Visually-impaired student beats odds, secures over 96%

Coimbatore: Scoring centum in Social Science, S Sabari Venkat, a 15-year-old visually-impaired student, has secured over 96% in the Class X examination.

Sterlite firing shocks visually challenged topper in Chennai

CHENNAI: Kathirvel Vijayabalan, a topper from the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Poonamallee, always wanted to become a district Collector.

Visually impaired siblings graduate

Tiruvannamalai: About 70 kilometres from Tiruvannamalai district headquarters is Sengulam village, which has frequently made headlines for all the wrong reasons as many youths from this place had been booked on charges of red sanders smuggling. However, this time two visually impaired siblings have done the village proud by being the first graduates from there.

Microsoft’s codetalk shines the light for the visually impaired.

BENGALURU: Microsoft has created a tool that lets visually impaired people code faster.

The project dubbed CodeTalk helps such coders navigate faster on screen, offers audio cues for bugs in the program, and helps users locate and skip comments on their document.

Visually impaired challenge lack of reservation in court recruitment

MUMBAI: With nearly 9,000 posts of stenographers, peons and clerks advertised in district courts, the Bombay high courton Tuesday dwelt on a question raised by National Association of the Blind whether provisions of Disabilities Act applies to courts.

On a mission to educate the visually-impaired

MADURAI: For 30-year-old visually-impaired B Velmurugan, life so far has been full of struggles. Fighting against all odds, he managed to complete MA BEd by doing errand jobs. Velmurugan started Thuimai Vizhigal Trust in 2013 to make life easier for others like him and help them complete their education.

Iconic U.S. pen made by the visually impaired turns 50

8 million writing instruments produced every year

Clifford Alexander scoops a handful of black ballpoint pens, drops them into a small box and shakes it with a blackjack dealer’s nonchalance. He slides in the next handful to make an exact dozen, and sends the box down the assembly line.

Mr. Alexander, who is blind, performs the quick act again, box after box.

CM MANOHAR LAL ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Wednesday issued instructions that such JBT teachers as are either visually impaired or are suffering from chronic disease, should be posted at stations near their house.

Due to non-availing of opportunity in the transfer policy of the Education Department, such teachers have been deprived of allotment of stations near to their house. Now, all such teachers will be transferred immediately, said the Chief Minister while holding a Janta Darbar to address issues and grievances of the people here.