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1. News- South Korean startup has developed an affordable Braille smartwatch which allows the visually impaired to receive and read text messages in real time and even read e-books.The wearable, named Dot, relays the time with a set of pins that rise and fall. Users will be able to receive and read text messages in real time, read e-books and even learn Braille. When it comes to watches for the visually impaired, there are not many devices that use real-time Braille text and the ones that do typically cost thousands of dollars. The company plans to launch the device in the US initially for a price below USD 300. More at http://www.eyeway.org/?q=now-affordable-braille-smartwatch-blind After a wait of at least two decades, a group of visually-impaired persons led by Anil Khurana has won half the battle for a residential accommodation at a plot which was sanctioned to the Poona Blind Men’s Association (PBMA) in Hadapsar. Anil Khurana had alleged that two hectares in Sector 93/2 in Mauje Mohammadwadi had been awarded to the PBMA for a primary health centre and a residential home for the blind, but the plot housed a hospital only. The local administration has agreed that the land which was sanctioned for a primary health centre and a residential home for the blind, did not have the latter. “According to the details shared by both the parties and the report submitted by the sub divisional officer, there has been a violation of land use as there is no residential home in the plot as planned when the land was allotted. We have forwarded the matter to the state government through the Pune divisional commissioner. The government will hear both the parties again and if there has been a violation, necessary action will be initiated,’’ said Pune district collector Saurabh Rao. More at http://www.eyeway.org/?q=land-use-controversy-state-look-demand-residential-home-blind In A world where children shy away from maths, 15-year-old Bhavya Shah stands out. He loves the subject, and, when he grows up, he wants to be a computer engineer. It’s a dream that until now would have had little chance of fulfillment. Shah is visually impaired and there are few tools in the city that can help teachers teach numbers to students like him. However, now, the National Association for Blind (NAB), in association with Mission for Vision (another NGO that works with the visually impaired), has launched a programme using specially designed aids and modules to help teach mathematics to the visually impaired. What this programme will also do is make visually impaired candidates eligible to appear for competitive exams where mathematics is a compulsory subject. More at http://www.eyeway.org/?q=new-programme-teaches-blind-students-math-launched-mumbai BrailleSpark is an excellent and industry leading tool which gives you the freedom of the brailler on your laptop/desktop keyboards. Yes, BrailleSpark allows you to type on your laptop/desktop keyboards with six fingers, just like a brailler. Put your fingers on the keyboard, and start your computerized, digital and intelligent brailler with your six fingers! BrailleSpark supports both Roman and Devanagari scripts. It takes Braille input and displays it's output in normal printed text which can be easily read by your preferred screen reader/speech synthesizer. With BrailleSpark you can extensively type Hindi, Sanskrit, English and many more Devanagari/Roman supported languages only with your six fingers and it is also Unicode compliant. BrailleSpark has an intelligent logical engine which automatically manages the complicated routines of Hindi language such as diacritics ETC. Read the announcement from: http://akashk.in/AnnouncingBrailleSparkEvent The XRCVC is delighted to announce a workshop on the subject, “Effective screen reader usage: Making the transition to open source the process and possibilities" on 30th August 2015 at 11.00 am to 5.30pm. Venue: XRCVC Viviana Extension, Thane. To register: contact Mr Vikas Dabholkar at [email protected] or on tel 022-61701177. More at http://www.eyeway.org/?q=workshop-%E2%80%9Ceffective-screen-reader-usage-making-transition-open-source-process-and-possibilities NATIONAL LEVEL NAB-SAROJINI TRILOK NATH AWARD-2015 for outstanding performance by an individual / organization working for education, welfare & Rehabilitation of visually impaired children/persons at State / National Level. The award carries cash prize of Rs. One lakh, and a Scroll of honour is being given. Interested person or organization may submit their achievements in the prescribed ‘FORMAT’ whichcan be collected personally or downloaded from our website www.nabdelhi.in. Duly filled up forms along with copies of Testimonials & Achievements with photographs may please be submitted latest by 31st August 2015 through e-mail or speed post. Contact Number: 011-64556968. E-mail: [email protected]. -- ** Best,Binni Kumari|Programme Manager Helpdesk! Score Foundation 17/107, Basement, Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4, New Delhi 110024, INDIA. 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