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Equal Opportunities Cell opens up window of opportunity for all

NEW DELHI: Purnima Singh is visually-challenged. She came to Delhi in 2014 and has been studying in a school for the blind at Vikaspuri. "It was always my dream to study in DU," she told TOI, while getting her online form filled in the computer lab of Equal Opportunities Cell (EOC).

Microsoft hosts Accessibility Summit in Hyderabad

Microsoft India today hosted its first-ever Accessibility Summit here aiming to enhance technology access for people with disabilities.

The summit aimed at demonstrating the business value of accessible technology for organisations, the need for a collaborative effort as well as assessing policy's role in creating an accessible India, a company statement said.

‘Life after Dark’ to perform at Wokha

Light after Dark, a band from Shillong comprising four visually impaired young men would be performing for charity at Wokha on World Music Day, June 21.

Visually impaired but focus intact

She has lost her eyes but not her vision. Visually impairedsince birth, class X student Aanchal Saini secured 85.2%in her Board exams. A student of Lucknow Public College, Rajajipuram, Aanchal credited her success to her school teachers and parents for consistent motivation.

Visually-impaired Tamil girl secures 96.6 pc in Class 12 board, says disability was never a hindrance

Dharshana MV has partial vision in her left eye and is sightless in her right eye. However, she did not let this deter her and has performed excellently in the CBSE Class 12 examination. She fought all odds to secure the third rank among the differently-abled students with 96.6 percent marks.

18-year-old visually impaired girl scores 89 percent in CBSE Class 12 board exams

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday announced the class 12 results on its official website, cbse.nic.in

An 18-year-old, Gurleen Kaur from Punjab, who is visually impaired has scored 89 per cent in her class 12 board exams.

Kerala govt will train 500 blind teachers to use technology that would aid teaching

Close to 500 blind teachers in Kerala would be trained in the various facets of Information and Communication Technology, to help them to handle their subjects effectively using technology, in a month’s time said a official of the state’s IT@School Project.

Ahmedabad government blind to Accessible India

AHMEDABAD: While the central government is pushing the cause of people with disabilities, termed divyangs, and has also passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill last year, the state seems to have missed the message.

Samaritans for sightless

Four youths from Odisha are doing their bit to change the way visually-impaired students read. At a time when the state is facing acute shortage of Braille books, the classmates are on a mission to provide accessible education to every visually-challenged student through audio books.

TOUCH & FEEL

Artist Chintamani Hasabnis has been painting since 1990. However, the last four years have been special to him as he started creating art that enabled the visually impaired to see. To do this, the 52-year-old artist made art that focussed on texture to produce a 3D-style effect, which could be touched and felt. “Art like theatre, cinema and painting is very visual. Conversing with art has its own benefits,” said Hasabnis, “It is a universal medium and should be open to all.”