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Eye screening, awareness camps to be held across Maharashtra on acount of World Diabetes Day on Nov 14 |
The Maharashtra Ophthalmological Society represents more than 2,500 eye doctors practising in the state. All members of society will be conducting free screening for diabetic eye diseases in every... |
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14/Nov/2019 |
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5 Indian companies ‘Ideal Workplace’ for differently-abled |
India is home to 2.7 crore people with a disability, be it physical or mental, according to the 2011 Census. As per the country's latest statistics, an estimated 2.1 per cent of the Indian population... |
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12/Nov/2019 |
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Braille board, handrails to help diff-abled in Kovai stn |
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore railway station has accquired Braille board indicators facility reported as ‘first of its kind’ in the Salem railway division.
Divisional Railway Manager U. Subba Rao,... |
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11/Nov/2019 |
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NFB: Striving to reach and serve the visually challenged |
Blindness combined with poverty limits their access to education, employment, health services, which finally leads to their socio-economic exclusion.
Bengaluru: India is home to world’s largest... |
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11/Nov/2019 |
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Mattel releases first deck of Uno cards in Braille |
GOODIN, Idaho — Middle schoolers at the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind are getting their hands on the first official braille Uno deck.
"Games don't usually have braille on them unless you... |
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08/Nov/2019 |
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RTA unveils nol card for the blind at expo |
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) exhibited a number of solutions at AccessAbilities Expo in Dubai, including a ‘nol’ public transport card modelled after Braille, whereby visually... |
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07/Nov/2019 |
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This startup creates customised audio content through voice cloning |
Founded in 2018, startup Deepsync Technologies uses AI to learn how you speak and saves hours of recordings, which then helps it to create audio content.
The time taken to produce an audiobook is a... |
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06/Nov/2019 |
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This tactile display lets visually impaired users feel on-screen 3D shapes |
Using a computer and modern software can be a chore to begin with for the visually impaired, but fundamentally visual tasks like 3D design are even harder. This Stanford team is working on a way to... |
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05/Nov/2019 |
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First in North India: Chandigarh railway station set to become visually-impaired friendly |
City’s railway station is set to become the first visually-impaired friendly railway station in North India and fourth in the country.
Bengaluru-based non-government organisation (NGO), Anuprayas,... |
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31/Oct/2019 |
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Under no circumstances will any vacancy for Divyangjan be filled by any other categories, says Railway Ministry |
A day after the sit-in-protest at Delhi’s Mandi House by the persons with benchmark disabilities (PwBD) over alleged irregularities in railway recruitment exams, the Indian Railways on Monday assured... |
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30/Oct/2019 |
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