BlackBerry Smartphones have always had some great accessibility options, but today RIM has taken things one step further with the release of BlackBerry Screen Reader. The new app, available for the Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370, allows those with visual impairments to better make use of their BlackBerry with extended functions for native applications.
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Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday directed officials concerned to ensure facilities for differently-abled in all public building across the state.
For this purpose, the government would take a loan of Rs 115 crore from Housing and Urban Development Corporation, an official said here.
The facilities included lift, ramp and disabled-friendly toilets among others in all government buildings at sub-division, district and division level, he said.
560,000 People with Disabilities Never Leave Their Homes Due to Transportation Difficulties. As conferees begin debating how to move forward with the federal transportation reauthorization, two civil rights organizations are highlighting massive disparities in transportation access for people with disabilities.
Liverpool will don one-off new-look shirts when they face Chelsea at Anfield this evening to raise awareness for a blindness charity.
The usual Standard Chartered logo on the front of the red shirts has been replaced by the words Seeing is Believing, the name of a charity seeking to tackle avoidable blindness.
Raising awareness: Steven Gerrard (left) and Martin Skrtel (right) will be part of the Liverpool side tonight wearing the alternative shirts
Parliament passed the Right of Children to Free and compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2012, with the Lok Sabha passing the measure on Wednesday, thereby providing for an integrated education process which would allow differently-abled children in the age group 6-14 the right of admission to any school.
A free service providing visually-impaired Hertfordshire residents with talking books by post has been scrapped and will be replaced with subscriptions to a charity library.
The Cassettes for Blind People (CfBP) service has 378 regular users and is described in council documents as "running at capacity".
Hertfordshire County Council local and libraries cabinet panel met on Wednesday afternoon to approve the discontinuation of the service which costs the council £51,000 per year to operate.
At Mumbai's domestic airport, a reflexology parlour - which offers 30-minute foot massages for Rs 950 - employs visually-impaired masseurs from lower-income backgrounds. They make their way around using a chair-numbering system, use a speaking clock to keep track of massage time, and converse in polite English - symbols of the chaotic junction where indulgence and indigence converge in the city. Mumbai is no stranger to luxury goods and services, just as it carries the dubious distinction of being the most unequal city in the world.
In an effort to help differently-abled children, Tamil Nadu Government has decided to set up a State Resource Centre here, the first of its kind in the country.
Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, the Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, said the centre would have specialised doctors associated with Ministry of Social Welfare and Health besides experts and consultants from various fields.
National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH)
116, Rajpur Road, Dehradun-248001 (Uttarakhand)
Vigyan Prasar
A-50, Institutional Area, Sector-62,
NOIDA - 201309, U.P. , INDIA
Telephone No: 0120-2404430,31,35,36
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.vigyanprasar.gov.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 7 July 2012, page no. 29
The last date for receipt of applications: 21.08.2012
The government needs to be more pro-active and look into the various issues to allow differently-abled children better education, says Swapna Mukherjee
Though the Ministry of Railways has taken a number of measures to make public transport facilities accessible to differently abled persons, the associations for differently abled persons say that there are flaws in implementation and most of the provisions did not reach them effectively.
According to members of the associations, it is ironical that persons with disabilities (PWDs) are not allowed to book tickets online.
Client of Anubhuti-A reputed Coaching Institute
Each time she hears someone complain about the traffic and the reluctance of people to use public transport, journalist Nikita D. has just one question: “Why should people, especially women, be forced to take public transport when we all know how unsafe it is?”
Ministry of Defence
Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering (MCEME)
Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP)
PO Box: 21, DHARAMSHALA, DISTRICT KANGRA – 176 215, HIMACHAL PRADESH
North Western Railways (NWR)
Railway Recruitment Cell ,NWR, Durgapura Railway Station , Jaipur 302018
Monuments like Aga Khan palace, Shaniwarwada, and Raigad fort will be among the first to have ramps, wheelchairs and information boards in Braille. They will become barrier-free allowing the disabled to access them, according to an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plan.
Ministry of Railways
Southern Railway
www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in
Employment Notification No. SR/SRD/PWD/01 / 2012
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 14 July 2012, page no. 63
The last date for receipt of applications: 01.08.2012
Last date for receipt of application from candidates residing in far flung areas: 16.08.2012
Around 800 differently-abled students of Delhi University are feeling forlorn and forsaken. Since early March, when a girl student with loco-motor disability, was hit by a speeding bike while crossing the road near the central library in North Campus, a feeling of willful neglect by the university authorities has grown among these students.
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