Dear All, Greetings from the National Eyeway Helpdesk. Please, find the below Daily Eyeway Alerts: 1. News, COVID-19: Visually-impaired persons face difficulties in maintaining social distancing. Visually-impaired persons are facing difficulties in maintaining social distancing norms in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Students of a premier Kolkata school for visually- impaired persons, who are presently at home due to the lockdown, are worried over ways to maintain social distancing once the institute reopens in June. "A visually-impaired person often touches an object or holds the arm of a person to navigate his or her way. However, with social distancing norms in place, this has become a problem for them," a teacher of the Calcutta Blind School said. As the students are presently at home, they are somehow managing but when the lockdown is lifted, they may face difficulties in maintaining social distancing norms, which are expected to remain in force for some time, he said. Subir Das, a class 11 student of the institute said, "At home, I think it is still safe to navigate our way by touching doorknobs or switchboards. But, I have to learn to move around without touching anything once I go out after the lockdown is lifted." Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/covid-19-visually-impaired-persons-face-difficulties-in-maintaining-social-distancing-120041300484_1.html
Moving Out, the co-operative couch carrying game from Team17, is expected to arrive at the end of the month on a variety of consoles. Before the April 28 release date, though, a new trailer has been dropped that shows off a variety of incredibly thoughtful accessibility options included in the game, alongside a helpful and easy to grasp Assist Mode. Check it out below. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-pYdpQSasQvmocEDWZUotQ. Accessibility options in video games are important, and Moving Out has incorporated them. Players can use the Scalable UI to adjust the size and positioning of HUD elements dynamically, and a Dyslexic Friendly Text mode swaps the default font of the game with a clearer and less stylized set of fonts. There are also full subtitle options for all in-game speech. Keyboard controls can be fully remapped as you see fit, and there are a variety of preset controller profiles available including left-handed and right-handed only configurations. If you want more gameplay-related assist features in Moving Out, you’ll want to use the Assist Mode. Toggling this adds a bevy of helpful gameplay adjustments that can make the experience much smoother, from increased time limits and lighter items to less difficult level layouts and level-skip features. Moving Out is set to launch on April 28 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. Link Source: https://nintendoeverything.com/moving-out-accessibility-assist-mode-trailer/ Blackboard Launches Free Accessibility Tool that Converts Digital Course Content Into Accessible Formats. Blackboard Inc. announced the launch of the File Transformer, Powered by Blackboard Ally — a free resource enabling students to convert their digital course content into a range of alternative formats to meet their unique learning needs and preferences as they adjust to digital teaching and learning modalities. The new resource allows students to personalize their learning experience and choose from several different format types designed to work better with mobile devices, assistive technologies, and study tools. The temporary, free resource is designed to ease students’ transition to digital learning as K12 school districts and higher education institutions continue moving to fully remote learning environments over the next several weeks as a result of COVID-19 contingency planning. Source: https://www.blackboard.com/resources/accessibility-checklist. 2. Event- BGFI Virtual Session on Cooking. Blind Graduates Forum of India (BGFI) with their ideology of think different runs many projects like Experiential Learning Sessions, Knowledge Sharing Sessions, Mentorship program and so on, which benefits Blind people in various aspects of their life like Education, Employment/Employability, Accessibility, Daily living skills etc. Due to current Corona virus Situation, we all are in lockdown, but we cannot keep our stomach and taste buds under lockdown. Many of us might think, how a blind person cook or many of us might want to learn cooking with blindness. For guiding us on the subject of Cooking without Looking We have got a very eminent trainer Miss Payal Kapoor, who herself is blind and will teach us different aspects and methods to be followed for making preparations and actually preparing food, how to deal with all sorts of challenges faced by blind person while cooking. This session will be conducted in 2 parts. In first part, we will learn about the preparation to be made before cooking . In second part we will learn basic cooking. The session will be conducted on Zoom app which is available for PC, IOS and Android mobiles. Kindly install Zoom on your device to attend the session. Date and time for the session: Cooking Part 1: Sunday 19th April from 5.30 pm to 7 pm. Date and time for cooking part 2 will be informed by separate communication. To attend this session, registration is compulsory. Please fill the google form by clicking following link. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSce3NEI5tXkuTe9-v37P4yiPzeQdHgjTs8kV_MYjF6Dc2QFwg/alreadyresponded?vc=0&c=0&w=1 Last day to register Friday, 17TH April, 9 pm. Since this will be a virtual session, for security reason we expect that who all are attending session has a basic knowledge of using gas stove and knife or will try all methods under expert supervision. For assistance in registration process, contact Zoher Kheriwala at 9029729579, For any queries about Zoom, you can contact: Ratul Arora on +91-9711881717 or Sadaf Khan on +91-8454999217. Should you wish to know more about the Zoom app, a tutorial is available at : https://mosen.org/zoom/. For more information on our activities and upcoming events visit our Website: www.bgfi.in. -- -- -- With warm regards, Helpdesk Team Toll free: 1800 53 20469 Working days: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Helpdesk: [email protected] Website: www.eyeway.org You can stay connected with us on WhatsApp: Eyeway-9968329329 Facebook: facebook/projecteyeway Twitter: @friendsofeyeway Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/Eyeway India “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”―Mary Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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