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.
Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, this new software will hit the market in November. Sponsored by the Centre’s department of Information Technology, TTS is a screen-reading software application that identifies and interprets Indian language text being displayed on the screen. Unlike former screen-reading software such as Jobs Access With Speech (JAWS) that only reads English text on the screen, TTS can read Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Bengali.
The IIM dream, chased by many but realised by few. 26-year-old Suresh Reddy from IIM Calcutta belongs to the select club. He was 13 years old when he lost his vision. His parents asked him to quit studies, but Reddy fought on.
Asif Iqbal is a person who can easily become a role model for many.He has never let his disability come in his way. He has met the former President of India (Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam) to discuss technology initiative which would benefit blind/ visually impaired community.
George Abraham lost his eyesight when he was ten months old. The real problem, he believes, is not blindness. It is the way people react to it. That attitude should change, says the man whose mission is to help the blind live with dignity.
Manjunath V., Srinivas Murthy and Ashok. They are all in their early 20s, undergraduate and visually challenged. They are the three visually challenged people to anchor news bulletins in the history of Indian television. They anchored Kannada news on Doordarshan Kendra’s regional Channel Chandana in Bangalore Jan 4, the second birth centenary of Louis Braille, founder of the Braille script.
At the age of 9, I suffered with Glaucoma in left eye. Unfortunately surgery did not succeed and I lost my left vision. Subsequently at the age of 13, vision in my right eye also started deteriorating due to retinal detachment. By the time I was in standard 8, I lost vision in both eyes.
Getting a job that you really like is not a simple task for anyone. Then imagine what it is like for a visually impaired person? There are so many stereotypes about visually impaired people among the sighted community.
This is the story about Suprita Gupta, a young visually impaired girl from Jarkhand. Suprita left her home town and her family and came all the way to Bangalore to start living her own independent life. Suprita works at IBM and …but wait, let’s just listen to the story told by Suprita herself.
This is the story of Swarnalakshmi, a blind lady, the only daughter in her traditional Indian family. Swarnalakshmi lost her vision all of a sudden due to brain tumor 15 days before she was supposed to get married. In her story she tells about what helped her to restart her life and become an independent lady with a golden glow in her eyes.