People with visual impairments often face difficulty to understand memes, but now researchers have developed a method to automatically identify memes and apply pre-written templates to add descriptive alt text, making them intelligible via existing assistive technologies.
The study was presented at the ACCESS conference in Pittsburgh, US.
Chandigarh is the most inhospitable city in the country, for the persons with disabilities (PWDs).
“As many as 85.7 percent people with disabilities, who used public transport in the city faced difficulties. The percentage is highest in the country,” revealed the National Sample Survey (NSS) report on “Persons with Disabilities in India” using a reference period of 365 days.
The report has exposed how unfriendly the city is for the PWDs as 83.6 percent of them who assessed public buildings faced difficulties.
BENGALURU: Here are Nujeen Mustafa’s two principles: First: No one is born evil. Second: Don’t watch the news. Because if you watch the news, it will shake your first principle.
Nujeen Mustafa’s unique and powerful memoir The Girl from Aleppo with award-winning journalist Christina Lamb is one of the best books on and by a person with disability.
Odisha Boy selected in India's Blind Cricket team for bilateral series against Nepal.
Source: https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/odisha-boy-selected-in-indias-blind-cricket-team-for-bilateral-series-against-nepal20191129045653/
According to the Rights of Disabled Persons Act of 2016, educational institutions are to “provide reasonable accommodation according to the individual’s requirements”.
Visually impaired students at Panjab university allege that they have to face a barrage of bureaucratic hurdles before attaining getting hostel facilities on the campus.
Bareilly: In an attempt to provide job opportunities to unemployed persons with disabilities, Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) will set up 200 stalls across 100 bus stations in the state. The stalls will be allotted at a minimum monthly rent by UPSRTC to disabled employees within the corporation and to people who became disabled as an outcome of injuries sustained during their journey in UP roadways buses. These stalls will be used for selling disabled-friendly equipment and products. UPSRTC has also roped in several NGOs to set up these stalls at bus stands.
CHANDIGARH: Specially-abled cricketers from India and abroad are participating in a 5th edition of the Usha Divyang Cricket League — a three-day cricket tournament being held in the Union Territory from November 26-28th.
The son of a poor farmer, Anoop, who has a severe visual disability, was lucky enough to receive support from the National Association for the Blind, an NGO, from the time when he was in school. Accessibility tools such as a laptop with screen-reading software helped him fulfil his potential, says Dipender Manocha, president of the Delhi arm of the organisation.
The golden edition of the International Film Festival of India is also noted for its inclusiveness. Three films for those with special needs were screened at IFFI under the ‘Accessible India-Accessible Films’ section. Sakhsham Trust, a Delhi based NGO working in the field of empowerment of persons with blindness and low vision made this possible along with the collaboration of IFFI and UNESCO.
Whether or not they are explicitly made, there are a lot of threads of disability in movies and TV shows.
With film being our primary medium these days, that means that there are near-endless ways to talk about disability with your kids. You just need to know what your kids are watching, be ready to hit the “pause” button, and/or keep track of the content and see the threads so that you can talk about it with them later.
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