The visually impaired students will now be able to read books of MP Board. A workshop to impart the awareness about the latest technologies related to reading books was organised here on Wednesday. The workshop was organised on Wednesday at AICUF Ashram with 150 participants including students with blindness and their teachers. Under the workshop latest technologies related to reading books were introduced.
Notably, accessible EPUB 3 is a format which is useful not only for blind persons but for everyone. MP Textbook commission is also considering producing all textbooks in accessible epub3 formats so that these books are available to all students including children with blindness and low vision. With this project the books will reach the end users on the same day.
Notably, the voluntary organisations Arushi and Saksham with support from World Intellectual Property Organisation are implementing a project to make MP Board school books accessible to students with blindness. All textbooks from class 9 to 12 of MP education board are being prepared in accessible EPUB 3 format. Under this project about 125 students will receive android devices or special EPUB 3 players to read these books.
The workshop was conducted by Dipendra Manocha, President of Daisy Forum of India, and Anubhav Mitra from Saksham was present to give technical information about the EPUB 3 format and its benefits. Moreover, Shiroki Takuro from Shinano Kenshi Company Japan was also present and introduced the first Hindi reading device Plextalk Vachak and explained its uses.