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Follow below the Daily Eyeway Alerts: 1) Visually Impaired Students in Maharashtra Can Now Record Their Board Exam Answers This step has been taken by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) and Minister of School Education, Vinod Tawde, with the view of bringing about changes for students with special needs in the state. For more click here: http://www.thebetterindia.com/42539/maharashtra-board-exams-visually-impaired-students/ 2) Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh is preparing to consolidate its operations under one Uptown roof — and place a community garden, trees and dog park on the rooftop. For more click here: http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9778400-74/blind-program-headquarters#axzz3x0d0sTCh 3) Do the blind live in a world of darkness? Or is theirs an imaginary world with visuals? Some, especially those who’ve been born blind, have stated that their world is indeed dark and visuals are at times thrust on them. Others, like Shakila Maharaj, one of the delegates at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2016, talk about an imaginary world that’s far from dark. A fourth generation Indian descent in South Africa, Shakila is an organisational psychologist and disabilities strategist trying to make performing arts accessible to the visually impaired through audio description. For more click on: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/her-world-isnt-dark/article8083382.ece 4) A large number of disabled people are striving for the bare minimum, and they are still “divyang” for the Prime Minister, is it not ironical? Merely a change in nomenclature for addressing disabled people is no substitute for empowering disabled persons. For more click on: http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/deifying-people-with-disabilities-a-cruel-joke/181902.html 5) Chief Minister to inaugurate the first-of-its-kind facility for the blind at Keezhmadu near Aluva on January 16 Mention the words ‘practice session’ and it conjures up image of players in coloured clothes, photo-op for fans or the air of pre-match excitement. And if you were at the cricket stadium near Aluva, which currently hosts the practice sessions of a national team, your applause would resound a lot louder when the players stepped on to the ground. For more click on: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/heres-a-sports-complex-with-a-vision/article8091283.ece 6) The Uttarakhand division of Archaeological Survey of India is adding a new section on its website, complete with voice commands and recorded narration, to allow visually impaired users to access information on heritage sites of the hill state. For more click on: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/ASI-Ukhand-website-now-accessible-to-visually-impaired/articleshow/50521969.cms -- With warm regards, Helpdesk Team! Toll free: 1800 300 20469 Working days: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Website: www.eyeway.org “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
