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Daisy technology comes to the aid of visually challenged

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The user can access it through several formats

— Photo: K. Gopinathan

Help at hand: (From left) Dipendra Manocha, President, DFI; L. Shanthakumari Sunder, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka; and Mahantesh G.K., managing trustee of Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, at the seminar in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Bangalore: As a pilot project, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan will try out new technology to make information easily accessible to the visually challenged, in two educational blocks in Karnataka, said G. Selvakumar, State Project Director of SSA. Speaking at a seminar on Digital Accessible Information System (Daisy), a technology that helps the visually challenged read text, Mr. Selvakumar said that technology can play a crucial role in ensuring access to quality education to all, especially the physically challenged.

He said that Karnataka has 1.32 lakh physically challenged children in the age group of six to 14, of whom 17,700 are visually challenged.

Mahantesh G. Kivadasannavar, Managing Trustee of Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, said that Daisy technology provides a single-source document in several accessible formats, such as talking book, large print book and Braille book.

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