- Search results for visually impaired people
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 | Braving all odds, this 25-year-old has been fighting for the visually impaired and downtrodden right from his school daysSaif Ahmad Khan, the founder of the NGO, Save the Quest says that only aim is to lend a helping hand | |
 | Blind Poets Society: How this Braille Poetry Magazine in Bengal has been inspiring the visually impaired for two decadesSparshanandan Drishtihinder Braille Patrika is a West Bengal-based annual publication that was first published in 1999 | |
 | This IIT Delhi researcher just created a phone-based device that can help blind kids 'feel' maps and picturesIt assists the visually impaired in cognition development by sensitizing them about things in their environment so that their inclusion in the education and employment ecosystem is sped up | |
 | This Chennai group helps the visually impaired with anything from jobs to arranging scribesS N Barath and his team of volunteers have been working on a new project creating a Digital Audio Library for visually challenged students | |
 | With the XL Cinema app, the blind can now 'watch' Indian movies with audio descriptionsVisually impaired people can now experience movies like never before, courtesy this app that provides detailed audio descriptions of what's going on between dialogues | |
 | Mumbai engineering college team win Smart India Hackathon for coal mine mapping projectThe Smart India Hackathon 2019 was held at the IIT Kanpur from July 8 to 12 and the results were announced on Friday night | |
 | Meet Vaishak, a 22-year old mountaineer who has been helping the blind summit peaksVaishak J P, popularly known as The Trek Guy shares some of his experiences of guiding the visually impaired through trekking paths | |
 | This Gujarat professor's innovative model can convert Hindi, English or Gujarati text to BrailleNikisha's model has received acclamation from the students who affirm that the invention will be very helpful for them | |
 | The Coding Ninjas story: Why this EdTech start-up wants you to pay their fee only after you land a great jobWe spoke to Coding Ninjas Co-Founder and CEO Ankush Singla to find out more about the evolving ed-tech sector and how coding is something that everyone wishes to learn | |
 | These three engineers' platform can help the specially-abled and LGBTQ community get employmentThe trio emerged as the grand prize winner of the Launchpad Global Start-up Business Plan Competition 'Ground Reality' held at BITS Pilani in Hyderabad. Around 300 start-ups had participated | |
 | How Jyothirgamaya Foundation fights for accessibility and champions disability rightsTiffany Brar, a 29-year-old visually-impaired social activist set up the organisation in 2012 with a grand vision to train visually impaired children in important life and vocational skills | |
 | YouTube, screen readers and Kannada literature: How Meghana, a visually challenged prodigy, cracked UPSC and KAS in the same yearWhile most of the students say it is difficult to crack UPSC, for Meghana it was a part of her life. This girl who lost her vision set her standards high by cracking UPSC in the second attempt | |
 | Karnataka HC gives an extra hour of time, mandatory scribe to visually impaired candidates writing KPSC examsThis petition filed by the National Federation of the Blind against the KPSC was heard by the High Court bench consisting of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Ashok S Kinagi | |
 | KPSC texts all visually impaired candidates to find out if they need a scribe, after Karnataka HC orderThey have also said that they will accept a disability certificate authorised by any competent medical authority and not insist on it coming from their pre-approved centres | |
 | Why Mitra Jyothi's founder Madhu Singhal's story can inspire the young to see those who cannot seeFrom a talking book library to a Braille transcription centre, Madhu Singhal's organisation, Mitra Jyothi, empowers the visually impaired children, women and youngsters through education |
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