At the polling booths, assured minimum facilities include signage, help desk, polling booth at the ground floor, drinking water, etc. HYDERABAD: With elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) round the corner, the 14 lakh plus disabled persons in the city are a worried lot. Their anxieties are over provision of absence of facilities in polling booths.Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, one such voter, who has Multiple Sclerosis shares, “Walking in such a large crowd causes disorientation.

They can’t dream of going to T. Nagar for shopping: professor

Every year, during the wedding anniversary, TMN Deepak entertains a particular wish — buy his wife a saree at T.Nagar or any other shopping centre. A simple wish which can be fulfilled easily, you may think. But Deepak doesn’t think that way. The very thought of getting into T.Nagar depresses him as the pavements there are not accessible to him.

Under SVEEP programme, visually impaired gives message to must register and cast vote

Ferozepur, November 10, 2020: Under the Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation program, better known as SVEEP, a flagship program of the Election Commission of India for voter education, spreading voter awareness and promoting voter literacy in India, on Tuesday, an awareness meet was held at Blind Home and visually impaired inmate conveyed the message to youths who have completed 18-years age, to register for news votes, before December 15.

Nairobi, November 3

Kenyan students Purity Nduku and Blessing Cheroo, who go to a boarding school for blind and partially blind children near Nairobi, often walk holding hands.

That way "you are sure you have the support and if something happens, your friend will help," Nduku says.

However, this simple yet vital tool of holding hands makes it very difficult to comply with the government requirement for people to keep a 1.5 metre distance from others as part of its measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

San Francisco, November 1

The latest beta version of iOS packs a feature that can help visually impaired users to effectively maintain social distancing by indicating how far away other people are from them.
 

Apart from detecting the presence of people, it also measures the distance to people in the view of the iPhone's camera, TechCrunch reported on Saturday.

The feature should be available to iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max running the iOS 14.2 release candidate, said the report.