In Trichy District, TN, blind people struggle to cover the 5 kilometers that lead to the ration shop. Being blind, or suffering from any form of disability, means that simple, daily acts are likely to turn into an ordeal. Everyday movements performed without much thought by a non-disabled person, are laden with obstacles for a blind person. Such is the case for the blind community living in Gandhi Nagar, Trichy District, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
… I ran around as I played as a child,hopping and dancing with children in the neighbourhood. One day I realised that something was wrong; my family members and neighbours were not the same. Some were worried and some did not want to be with me. No play…. It seemed that everybody was looking at me differently.
Accessibility conference and exhibition “Techshare India 2012 – Bridging the Barriers” invites submissions of papers for this conference to be held on February 6th & 7th, 2012 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. The list is suggestive of the types of papers for consideration, but by no means restrictive to these specific areas.
The all India one minute competition – 60 Seconds to Fame was introduced as part of AbilityFest to invite deeper thinking on disability issues. The competition, open to all Indian nationals, encourages an accurate portrayal of disability while promoting the need for an inclusive society. The winners are selected by a jury comprising of eminent people from the film industry and the disability sector
The process of recruiting disabled employees began initially as a CSR iniative but we soon learned the business case in recruiting PWD and this then became a regular HR process.
BRAILLE MITRA is the Refreshable Braille Display for visually handicapped and sightless people for reading in Indian Languages Braille.The Braille supported is the six-dot Braille script for English and all 11 Indian Languages. BRAILLE MITRA is ideally suited for a Braille Library environment in which an entire book in an Indian Language can be stored […]
For totally blind people in many ways, the use of cellular phones, especially the latest ones is somewhat similar to the use of computers. The biggest similarity is that most phones are difficult to be used without assistive technologies
Camera Mouse is a program that allows you to control the mouse pointer on a Windows computer just by moving your head.VThe program was developed to help people with disabilities use the computer. The main audience for this program is people who do not have reliable control of a hand but who can move their […]
With the help of computers enabled with speech synthesizers, students with vision impairment doing higher studies, are becoming independent in all their reading and writing needs. Computer literacy is giving the visually impaired and low vision persons new professional opportunities,
Ever faced a problem in pressing multiple keys simultaneously? Is the sunlight glare obstructing you from viewing the screen content? Missed out on an audio alert while working in a noisy environment? Would you like to control the mouse via the keyboard? Microsoft Windows XP enables you to satisfy all the above. In Windows XP, […]