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....
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....
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....
Albinism and Assistive Technology
June 28, 2012
by Ramya @ 11:06 am No Comments
Filed under: AT,Blind,Digital Talking Books,Employment,Inclusive Education,Independent Living,Libraries,Low Vision,Print Disabled
Few days back a parent asked me whether there are assistive technologies for a person who has albinism. The immediate question that came into my mind was how does albinism affect a person so that I could suggest an appropriate product? Albinism is a group of genetic conditions that causes a lack of pigment which....
Inclusive Libraries – A step towards mainstreaming persons with disabilities!
May 31, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 3:18 pm No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT,Digital Talking Books,Inclusive Education,Libraries
During my own education, one of the places in the college that I enjoyed spending time at was the library. The Library is that one common place in a school, college or university that everyone needs access to. The library is the place we visit to gain knowledge, answer a question, read a newspaper, etc.....
What should banks be concerned about when making ATMs or Online banking accessible to persons with disabilities?
May 31, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:35 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,Accessibility Testing,Digital Talking Books
People with disabilities need equal access to their finances. Today there are notifications by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Ministry of Finance requiring ATMs and Online Banking to be accessible. Banks nowadays are referring to financial inclusion, they need to look at accessibility as a way to build inclusion of persons with disabilities. In addition,....
Dolphin EasyConverter – Tool to create alternate formats
May 4, 2010
by techeditor @ 2:22 pm No Comments
Filed under: Digital Talking Books,Print Disabled
EasyConverter is a tool by Dolphin to create alternate formats (altformat) of either printed documents or Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML or text files to large print, Braille, MP3 and Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) versions. EasyConverter is a good option for people who do not have an altformat creation experience. A teacher can help his/her....
Inclusive Libraries – A step towards making libraries disabled friendly
April 26, 2010
by Webmaster @ 1:41 pm No Comments
Filed under: Digital Talking Books,Libraries
BarrierBreak Technologies presents a whitepaper on Inclusive Libraries in collaboration with Daisy Forum of India (External Website) and AccessAbility (External Website). About the Whitepaper – Inclusive Libraries The need to access libraries is not one that we need to contend. Libraries provide us with a vast resource of knowledge whereby a person can access books,....
