What Universities in India can do to support persons with disabilities in education using ICT – Using the HEPSN Scheme of UGC – A Recommendation
May 23, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:50 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessible Development, AT, Blind, Digital Talking Books, Disability, EPUB, Inclusive Education, Learning Impaired, Libraries, Low Vision, Mobility Impaired, Multiple Disabilities, Print Disabled
Very few Universities in India are catering to the needs of students with disabilities. Even fewer have disability support units or resource centers. One wonders why there is this gap, since the University Grant Commission (UGC) does provide directives for Universities to be accessible to people with disabilities. UGC has provided the Higher Education for....
Save text as MP3 or DAISY using Dolphin SaySo
May 22, 2013
by Ramya @ 4:26 am No Comments
Filed under: AT, Blind, Digital Talking Books, Disability, Inclusive Education, Low Vision, Print Disabled
Overview It is always a good idea to carry books, notes or any other of your documents you wish to read while you travel. You must have seen many people read books or students refer to their notes while travelling in order to utilize their precious time. With the technology available these days such as....
An adapted toy – Being able to control their toy with a switch – A new found happiness
May 16, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 9:07 am No Comments
Filed under: AT, Multiple Disabilities
Every child enjoys toys! Growing up, one of the first things parents do is get us toys to play with. It might be a car that moves and honks, a teddy bear that laughs, a drum that plays, the choice is endless. But for a large number of children with disabilities, they are unable to....
Problem of Textbooks – Digital Talking Books for the Blind or Print Impaired in India
May 15, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:13 am No Comments
Filed under: Blind, Digital Talking Books, EPUB, Inclusive Education, Libraries, Print Disabled
You and I read textbooks, a blind person might want to read a book Braille, a low vision person or a dyslexic person might want to hear a book. As you read, you also learn, you learn to spell, you learn to speak, you learn to build sentences, in short you learn. For the blind....
Language that leaves you speechless
May 13, 2013
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Filed under: General
By Malay Desai Sunil Sahasrabudhe is a teacher, living like millions of others in a bourgeois apartment in suburban Mumbai. On routine evenings, his wife Shweta is found chatting away with neighbours while he works on his laptop inside, the sole room lit up by their sprightly daughter Kimaya’s presence. The trio’s tightrope walk in....
BarrierBreak and NASSCOM Foundation present an awareness webinar on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
April 26, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 1:10 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility
If you’re a techie, an ecommerce company, a software company, an organization using technology to provide services to its customers, or then a government agency, then here is an opportunity to understand how your product and service can be accessible to a larger audience that includes people with disabilities. BarrierBreak and NASSCOM Foundation come together on May....
Government of Maharashtra & BarrierBreak celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013
April 26, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 12:52 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility, Accessibility Testing, Web
On May 9th, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Government of Maharashtra and BarrierBreak invite students to learn about web technologies and how to make them accessible to all including people with disabilities. This 3 day training aims at creating awareness about web standards, localization and accessibility guidelines. A certificate of participation will be provided to the....
Leaving ‘from’ a jet plane
April 25, 2013
by Ramya @ 5:22 am No Comments
Filed under: General
By Malay Desai At the ground floor hall of an organisation in Mumbai one dreary evening, a conference on disability is winding up. Many of its participants, flown in from all over India, are celebrated survivors of disabilities and advocate themselves. They’re hobbling away, giving goodbyes with feeble but mirthful handshakes. One of the lasts....
My experience of using a refreshable Braille Display with Dolphin Supernova, Jaws and NVDA
April 22, 2013
by Ramya @ 6:26 am No Comments
Filed under: AT, Blind, Employment, Inclusive Education, Libraries, Low Vision
Experience shared by Bhavesh, who is an employee of Barrierbreak. Bhavesh is a person with visual impairment and uses Dolphin Supernova Screen Reader to access computer. He shares his experience of using Alva USB 640 – A refreshable Braille Displayer. Ever since a great innovation of Braille by “Luis Braille”, Blind people have highly benefited....
Avatars of a different kind
April 10, 2013
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By Malay Desai “Sofia!” the bed-ridden magician yelled, keeping at it until his nurse appeared. “Throw this vase, destroy it,” he ordered, fuming at Sofia’s hesitance. That moment in the 2010 film Guzaarish touched many, making us wonder how it must be living, laughing, getting furious when one’s limbs don’t move at will. ‘Qwa-dri-ple-jya’, we even....
Using Dolphin SaySo to convert an inaccessible PDF into a Word Document
April 7, 2013
by Ramya @ 3:33 pm No Comments
Filed under: AT, Blind, Digital Talking Books, Employment, Inclusive Education, Libraries, Low Vision, Print Disabled
Overview There are thousands of PDF files on the internet in forms of books, manuals, user guides for electronics, legal documents, catalogs, forms to apply for services etc , although a bulk of which remain inaccessible to people with disabilities. In many cases it is seen that a PDF is just an image of a....
