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....
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....
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....
A need for Low Vision Centers
March 20, 2013
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 6:35 am No Comments
Filed under: Accessibility,AT,Independent Living,Libraries,Low Vision
I’ve been thinking of the problem of low vision. Most doctors and surgeons look at eye surgery or then maximum we talk of the glasses to aid a person. Is that really the only thing that we have? What about the 246 million people worldwide who are low vision. Did you know that as per....
Web Browsing Experience With Supernova 13
December 20, 2012
by Ramya @ 9:04 am No Comments
Filed under: AT,Blind,Employment,Inclusive Education,Libraries,Low Vision
Experience shared by Bhavesh Patel – a person with visual impairment I explored the newest version of Supernova recently. I am thrilled by its reliability and performance, and thought to share my views by writing a case study. Overview Web accessibility has always been a pointed issue and will continue to be one for as....
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....
Why is accessibility testing with persons with disabilities critical to accessibility?
June 21, 2011
by Shilpi Kapoor @ 10:55 am 1 Comment
Filed under: Accessibility,Acecssibility Testing,AT,Blind,Disability,Employment,Inclusive Education,Independent Living,Libraries,Low Vision,Web
For all the web development and software development companies in India who are working on accessibility, I would like to invite you’ll to remove some time from your schedule and visit the BarrierBreak Accessibility Lab. Often, when people come to our office in Mumbai and see a demo of their own website or then of....
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.....
Inclusive Libraries Workshop – a step towards making an Inclusive World
May 24, 2010
by techeditor @ 2:26 pm No Comments
Filed under: Libraries
An initiative by BarrierBreak Technologies to make libraries inclusive in every part of India was successful at a yet another workshop in Mumbai at HELP Library. This workshop included all the information which was required to make ones library accessible to people with any kind of disability. Shilpi Kapoor, Managing Director of BarrierBreak Technologies made....
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,....
Accessibility Knowledge Series VII – Introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication
January 14, 2010
by Mamta Tandel @ 5:49 pm No Comments
Filed under: AT,Inclusive Education,Independent Living,Libraries
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is any method that supplements or replaces speech and writing when these are temporarily or permanently impaired and inadequate to meet all or some of a person’s communication needs. AAC methods allows the user to perform that which is most human – thinking, dreaming, and planning and are effective ‘tools’....
