Give the visually imapired participants new experience of alternative photography, cultivate their inner creative abilities and to make exhibition quality photographs. Skills required for participants: Visually impaired should have basic knowledge of photography and has been taking pictures.
Her eyes are set on a goal ‘ making visually impaired self-reliant. On her noble journey, Jyoti Parmar, 45, has taught 30 such persons how to write their name. Besides, she has been teaching English and social studies since 18 years at Braille Bhawan, Jamalpur. And while treading this path, she has not let her handicap be a barrier ‘ she had lost her vision when she was eight.
Ever had a chance to meet Amitabh Bachchan or Raani Mukherji? Zamir Dahle, an individual afflicted with an impairment called ‘deaf-blindness’ has. Not only has he met them, but has had a chance to train them.
Antarchakshu is a sensitization workshop cum photo exhibition by the visually challenged aimed to spread awareness about the lives of the visually challenged and people with other disabilities.
REMARKABLE new technology is helping blind people in York to “read” newspapers or books and tell what’s inside a food can.New device helps blind people to ‘read’ . The high-tech devices can be tried out at the offices of the York Blind And Partially Sighted Society, which has also announced it has won a £30,000 grant.
Aria is a braille notetaker with speech output designed for use by persons who are blind or have low vision. This computerized organizer is designed with word processing, mathematical and communicating capabilities. The user can construct full-fledged documents, transfer files, drive a modem or use a statistical calculator. With DOS interface, this device can run external software. It can be upgraded; the system runs on 1 Megabyte of RAM and 2 Megabytes of Flash ROM (contains the Aria software).
Born in a small village Eruvadi in the year 1944, his father deserted family at the age of one, his mother died at the age of 3, left with a big family of 15 members with very limited financial resources, he lost is vision due to optic nerve damage in an accident at the age of 13, lost 5 years, searching for treatment before final conclusion of total irreparable damage to both eyes and permanent loss of vision.
Krishnakant Mane says that the freedom and flexibility provided by open source software enables him to work with a variety of interfaces and is integral to his work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Born on 23.04.1968 at Pilani (Rajasthan) I lost my eye sight due to eye cancer at the age of three. I completed my schooling from a school situated at Ajmer and could managed to secure 90th position in 10th standard in the entire state of Rajasthan competing with lacs of students who were equipped with site. After completing my schooling.
He became visually impaired due to an eye disease at the age of 13. Today, Lives in Mumbai. He plays and promotes chess among the visually impaired; also he was the first Asian to be the Vice-President of International Braille Chess Association. He is involved with the All India Federation of Blind for Chess and many of his students have participated in world chess championship. His chess software for visually impaired is helping people in 18 countries.