Photo: Plus TV Africa
More Than 50% Of NCERT Chapters Inaccessible On Diksha Platform
More than half of the NCERT chapters on the DIKSHA platform are inaccessible for visually impaired students. Published by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, the report claimed that around 54.5% of NCERT sample chapters were inaccessible while 36.4% were completely accessible. Besides, out of the total links available for teaching and learning materials (TLM), only 31% were independently navigable. Moreover, 52.6% of the learning activities were… read-more
Tags: Visually impaired, Blind, DIKSHA, India
Courtesy: The Print
Photo: Venture Beat
Google Develops 'Project Guideline' To Assist Blind In Outdoor Sporting
Tech-giant Google has been developing 'Project Guideline' to assist blind and people with low vision to play outdoor games. Working on machine learning, the technique uses a smartphone, headphone and a yellow coloured path. It will assist the visually impaired to follow instructions via headphone, while it uses the smartphone camera tied on his wrist. The project is in early-phase of research in collaboration with American guide dog training… read-more
Tags: Blind, sports, Outdoor activities, Google, Guideline
Courtesy: Republic World
