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Devnar School gets JAWS

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JAWS helps visually-challenged to the screen
NTPC spends Rs.2,07,600 on the software

Token of love: NTPC Regional Executive Director (South) A. N. Dave with Devnar School students at launch of JAWS software on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: The visually challenged students of the Devnar School got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when National Thermal Power Corporation provided them with authentic JAWS software that will make computers user-friendly for the vision impaired.

A. N. Dave, Regional Executive Director (South) of NTPC Ltd., inaugurated the JAWS (Job Access With Speech) for Windows software along with two Personal Computers and two scanners at the Devnar Foundation for the Blind.

JAWS will help students with visual impairment by prompting aloud each key pressed and each movement of the mouse and also by reading the screen for them.

It also has screen magnification software for students with partial impairment. It comes along with several applications such as note takers, Braille displays, and device drivers that facilitate the installation of Braille-enabled devices.

Myriad options

Installation of the software will help the students in accessing information on education, downloading job related applications, browsing the web, reading or sending e-mails, working with spreadsheets and accessing information in a database, a press note from NTPC said.

The Corporate Social Responsibility endeavour cost NTPC Rs. 2,07,600, the note said.

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