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Enabling the Disabled

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:33 -- admin

The centre of attraction in a noisy lobby of Hotel Geeth in the city is a vivacious woman deep in conversation with 10 people at the same time. With a smile and a few words of encouragement, she, Jayshree Raveendran, was bidding adieu to most of them. At times, her nimble fingers spoke rapidly in reply to questions posed by equally agile fingers.

View Plus Cub Embosser

Quality and speed in a compact desktop design, the ViewPlus Cub is the ideal embosser for users who primarily use 8.5 x 11, A4 or smaller paper and still want to be able to quickly and quietly emboss high-resolution braille and tactile graphics directly from their preferred Windows programs.

Versa Point Duo

Get high quality, interpoint Braille in a reliable, low maintenance embosser. Versapoint Duo provides you with an economical tool to complete high volume Braille production. Easy one button commands allow you to reconfigure Braille output and check work. Braille can be configured for 6-dot and 8-dot output of speeds up to 40 characters per second. The speech synthesizer option speaks menus and doubles as external speech for your computer.

Our Ability: Web Portal for People With Disabilities

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:32 -- admin

When I was 16 years old, I had no person with a physical disability that I could look up to as a mentor. My heroes were Bob Costas, Dick Stockton and other Syracuse University broadcasters. All able bodied.

I craved someone with a physical disability that I could emulate. I needed to see the path to success -- a role model, a mentor. As I speak to individuals around the country, other people with disabilities share the same story. They had no role models. It is true today with the next generation of people with disabilities.

Porta-Thiel

PORTA-THIEL is a personal double sided braille embosser of the highest reliability, designed with the specifications suggested by a group of blind users selected from several European countries and is sold at the lowest possible price. It is a small, lightweight portable Braille printer. The quality is equal to that of all other embossers. The PORTA-THIEL does not use tractor feed device to control paper feed, therefore tractor holes are not needed, which means that after a sheet is printed it can be torn off and is ready for binding.

Test newborns for disabilities, Bombay high court tells Maharashtra

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:30 -- admin

The Bombay high court on Friday directed the state government to make it mandatory for all hospitals in Maharashtra to carry out screening tests to check disabilities in new born babies.

The division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice SJ Vazifdar took a special hearing on a clutch of public interest litigation seeking implementation of the Disabilities Act.

At the last hearing the suggestion to test new born babies for disabilities was made by retired army general Ian Cardoz of the Rehabilitation Council of India.

Magnum 860i

The Magnum 860i meets the rapidly evolving demand for professional high-speed braille printers by printing up to 600 pages per hour. The Magnum comes integrated with the Professional Braille software which allows creating excellent layouts, smooth graphics, and has support for style sheets and multilingual texts. The Magnum 860i is connected to a PC via parallel cable like any ordinary office printer. The big, noise absorbing case has room for over 1000 sheets of endless, fan-folded paper.bl

Index Everest

The Index Everest is a double sided (interpoint) and single sided fast braille embosser with stable handling of cut sheet paper at an economic price. It is easy to use and produces very high quality braille. This makes the Everest by far most used embosser of its kind in all countries where the users prefer to print braille onto cut sheet paper.

Students’ device helps visually impaired take notes

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:28 -- admin

A team of ASU students and alumni has developed a device to help low-vision students who have trouble seeing the board in class.

The team developed a device — the Note-Taker — to assist low-vision people with what they said was a delay between the blackboard and a person’s own hand-written notes.

The device is made up of a tablet PC and a camera that can zoom in on a blackboard so a user can see images up close.

NGO prays for Braille ballots

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:27 -- admin

An NGO for the visually challenged has requested the West Bengal chief electoral officer to ensure better arrangements in polling booths for blind voters in the Assembly election.

The Calcutta chapter of the National Association for the Blind has written a letter to poll panel chief Sunil Kumar Gupta, asking him for adequate Braille ballots in all booths, as well as ramps to provide easy access for the wheelchair-bound.

India's first employability test to be held in Delhi

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:24 -- admin

Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), the country's first employability test will be held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai on 9th and 10th of this month.

Graduate from BA, BCom, BSc, BBA, BCA, BHM or any other equivalent graduate course (non-engineering) can appear for the test and get a seven stroke report on their employability skills.

Students can register themselves at www.myamcat.com/graduates.am. Last date for registration is Thursday.

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