NEW DELHI: Recently, the JCB Literature Foundation at ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival announced an initiative to make the shortlisted entries for the JCB Prize for Literature more accessible to the visually impaired. This particular announcement was made by Mita Kapur, writer and Literary Director of the JCB Prize for Literature, during a special session, titled Literature for All: The JCB Prize Shortlist in Braille.
A 360◦ User Perspective Report on existing accessible Geometry Construction Kits for students with blindness.
by Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC).
Source: http://www.xrcvc.org/docs/Degrees%20of%20Accessibility.pdf
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February 19, 2020 11:18 am
NVDA 2019.3 here we are! For those who have been following this journey, this release has been a long time coming. The reaction from users has been fantastic! So, let’s get right into the big news story:
A 23-year-old engineering graduate C Sriram has been helping visually impaired students write exams. He created an app called "Scribe Finder Application" to help students to find volunteers who can write exams for them. The application already has more than 3,000 registered volunteers from across India.
Shalimar Paints has started an initiative to bring colours to the lives of the blind kids. To introduce the concept of #ColourALife, the brand has transformed the recovery rooms of eye hospitals by painting them with vibrant colours which gave them a view that till now would have only existed in their imaginations.
Through this digital campaign, Shalimar Paints endeavours to highlight the issue of child blindness and help the affected children by plugging the gap between the darkness and colours.
When most Class 12 students were busy on Sunday evening with their last-minute revision for the first HSC paper the next day, Naved Shaikh from Boisar was still not sure if he could write the paper.
A student of Arts, Shaikh is a visually impaired and struggled to get a writer until the very last minute.
The non-availability of ramps for children with special needs at Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 45-A, became a cause of concern for the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CCPCR), a team of which visited the school today.
There are more than 10 children with special needs (CWSN) enrolled in the school. Classes for some of them are being run on the first and second floor. A school official claimed that multiple requests had been made to the UT Education Department regarding the need for a ramp in the school, but to no avail.
Hindustan Times
CHENNAI: Three years ago, in a-first-of-its-kind initiative, the state government had installed audio signals at 150 locations in the city. The device, attached to traffic signal posts, guided the visually impaired by informing them on the signal and helped them walk without the fear of being hit by a vehicle.
A statewide study conducted in all schools for the blind revealed that the Centre’s vitamin A supplementation programme for pregnant mothers has been a success with the number of children being born blind dropping drastically as compared to the numbers when a similar study was done 15 years ago by the same organisation.
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