IIT Coaching: Visually impaired achiever picks the strongest for Rahmani 30 -

Armed with a laptop, Mohammed Asif Iqbal, 38, fires some tough questions at a nervous group of youngsters aspiring for IITs.

A golden chance for visually impaired

A two-year special course for visually impaired students will be started at Braille Bhawan, Jamalpur. This course has been started jointly by the Centre’s National Institute for Visually Handicapped, Dehradun, and the Punjab Government. Applications have been sought for this special course with duration of two years.

Google included accessibility features for vision-impaired users in Android Wear 5.1.1

Casey Burkhardt, Senior Software Engineer at Google in the Accessibility team revealed today that some of these features arrived in the latest Android Wear update.

Vision for future guides 23 impaired students

PUNE: These 23 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC, standard XII) students from Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalaya (NAMV) have been through the most testing times in life: they have been visually impaired since birth, born in families with measly incomes and very little to sustain on.

Students with visual impairment in the state will be given admission to science stream in Higher Secondary classes, from this year onwards.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Students with visual impairment in the state will be given admission to science stream in Higher Secondary classes, from this year onwards.

Vehicle for People with Disabilities

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A young man, by riding a two-wheeler without using his hands a few months ago, turned a few heads on the roads of Anad. What the onlookers might have mistaken as foolhardy heroics, was actually a test run for the prototype of ‘V4D’, a two-wheeler designed for people with limb disabilities.

VISUALLY-IMPAIRED STUDENTS GET LAPTOPS

As many as 100 visually impaired (VI) students pursuing +3 and onward courses were given free laptops with JAWS Software at a programme held at the Bhima Bhoi Bling School here on Monday.