Using ATMs in the city is a task for the visually impaired, as most banks do not have Braille and talking machines, despite instructions from the RBI to make changes. It has been two years since Veena Kumari (35), has been requesting a bank for a debit card. The bank refuses to give her one claiming that she would not be able to recognise the PIN number on the card, and would require assistance to conduct transactions.
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PrestoBraille, an industrial-strength signmaker powered by compressed air, stamps Braille in the shortest form possible (often only one word, in fact) through thick, pliable materials with perfect consistency for thousands of impressions. Press a single button, and PrestoBraille stamps crisp, perfect Braille with a full ton of pressure, time after time.
Visually challenged students of Bangalore University have something to smile about. The varsity is now taking initiatives to make their learning process more easier. A meeting was held at the vice-chancellor’s office on Thursday that chalked out an action plan for visually challenged students.
Vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev announced several measures that the university would take to add value to these students.
The university has formed a committee under the chairmanship of the vice-chancellor to carry out the action plan.
Before the development of PED-30 around 1980, the world's Braille printing houses produced plates for Braille presses literally by hand. One error, and the whole plate had to be redone. , , The PED-30 revolutionized volume Braille production by making it possible to create zinc master plates from computers. Plates from the PED-30 go onto a specially modified commercial printing press, which stamps the dots into the paper.
A .9 cubic foot, 900-watt microwave oven that has been specially modified with a clear male voice to talk you thro
The largest-ever law school exam that decides admission to nearly a dozen national schools across India will turn disabled-friendly this summer.
Additional time to crack the two-hour exam, option of bringing one's own scribes along with instruments for problem-solving and a question paper sans any visual reasoning to aid the blind are some of the key features of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) policy of candidates with disabilities to be implemented from this year.
Ideal for proofreading books in production and other high-speed applications, Marathon produces an entire single-sided page of crisp, perfect Braille every five seconds. That's 200 characters per second, the highest Braille production capacity anywhere in the world at the price. Yet Marathon weighs just 75 pounds and fits neatly in its built in aluminium case, so it can be transported safely.
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Hundreds of children who could only listen to Tagore’s works can now read them as well, thanks to a gift on the eve of his 150th birth anniversary.
Nine city schools for the visually challenged on Sunday received two copies each of two volumes of Gitabitan in Braille along with 21 other Bengali and English storybooks to mark the occasion.
The three blind mice are no longer blind. Well, the ones in the nursery rhyme may still be blind, but the other week researchers at the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a scientific technique called optogenetics to restore the ability of blind mice to differentiate between light and dark. The mice had retinitis pigmentosa, a disease in which light-sensitive cells in the retina are destroyed, causing the brain to no longer receive visual image information.
Despite advances in technology, a simple, convenient way for sighted people who don't know Braille to make professional-looking Braille labels just didn't exist. Until now! The 4-pound Braille Labeler makes transparent single-line labels on strips 7, 15 or 25 Braille characters wide. Even with no Braille experience at all, in minutes you can label almost anything--hotel keys, signs, simple maps, cassettes, CD cases, vending machines, telephones and more--in durable, top quality Braille.
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Meera (name changed), a media professional in the city, is silently rejoicing the success of blind students in the higher secondary exam results. She is part of an informal group of people who double up as scribes -- rendering valuable service to the cause of the visually challenged.
Juliet Pro 60 has a 40-character-wide embossing line and 60-character-per-second speed. It also includes two other standard features: Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system.
The Juliet Pro features extra-wide 56-character embossing line Brailles two sides at once at up to 55 characters per second. It also comes with Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system, as standard equipment.
A federal lawsuit will be filed against the American Bar Association on behalf of a blind man arguing the required Law School Admissions Test is biased against the visually impaired and should not be required of blind law school applicants.
The suit will be filed on May 24 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Attorney Richard Bernstein said.
Bernstein, who is blind, was the last law student to be admitted to law school 15 years ago without taking the LSAT.
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Members of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) have begun a survey of all government buildings, as per High Court directives, to check if they are barrier-free and convenient for the differently-abled.
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