Accessibility Current Affairs, GK & News

IIT Madras launchs ‘Arise-A Standing Wheelchair’ for disabled

The IIT Madras has launched the newly designed ‘Arise-A Standing Wheelchair’ standing wheelchair for disabled at IIT Madras Research Park. The standing wheelchair is designed by TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research & Device Development (R2D2). The purpose of this wheelchair is that it will help a person in a wheelchair to stand without any help.

Topics: Accessibility • Assistive technology • Chairs • Disability • Health • Indian Institute of Technology Madras • Motorized wheelchair • Standing wheelchair • Wheelchairs

Ministry of I and B announces Accessibility Standards for the Hearing Impaired

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced the implementation of accessibility standards for television programmes for persons with hearing impairment. How Accessibility Standards would be Implemented? The Accessibility Standards would be implemented through the provision of captioning and Indian Sign Language. All news channels are required to carry a news bulletin with sign language ..

Topics: Accessibility • Assistive technology • Audiology • Closed captioning • Deafness • Indo-Pakistani Sign Language • Ministry of Power • Sign language • Subtitle • Subtitling • Transcription

Assam Chief Electoral Officer launches Enajori initiative for PwD

Assam Chief Electoral Officer Mukesh Sahu launched the Enajori initiative in Guwahati. It is a special initiative for persons with disabilities with an aim that ‘No Voter to be Left behind’. It is a joint initiative of CEO Assam and Social Welfare Department (SWD) with an objective to make 2019 Lok Sabha Elections accessible to ..

Topics: Accessibility • Assistive technology • Augmentative and alternative communication • Braille • D voter • Design • Digital typography • Disability • Elections in India • Encodings

2018 International Day of Persons with Disabilities

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed every year on December 3 to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development and to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life. The annual observance ..

Topics: Accessibility • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Disability • International Day of Families • Law by country • Politics by country • Sustainable Development Goals • United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Inclusive India Initiative

The National Trust under Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment in collaboration with key partners organised the conference “Inclusive India Initiative: Towards an Inclusive India” for intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). The ‘Inclusive India Initiative’ of National Trust is specifically catering to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; with an objective to include these people ..

Topics: Accessibility • Critical pedagogy • Developmental disability • Disability • Education • Education reform • European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education • Inclusion • Philosophy of education • Special education

Thaawarchand Gehlot launches 100 accessible websites for Divyangs

Thaawarchand Gehlot, the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, has launched 100 accessible websites for Divyangs on January 19, 2018. These 100 government websites are now divyang friendly. The Accessible Websites are those websites into which Persons with Disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to ..

Topics: Accessibility • Assistive technology • Contents • Design • Disability • Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment • Screen reader • Visual impairment • World Wide Web