Parliament library now accessible to visually challenged- The New Indian Express

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Visually challenged individuals will now have simpler entry to the huge repository of sources within the parliament library which is now geared up with essential assistive applied sciences, officers stated.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday inaugurated particular services that present visually challenged individuals entry to greater than 1.7 million publications and sources within the library. Birla took the initiative after he discovered that visually impaired individuals had been dealing with issue in accessing the library for need of digital visible aids.

After consultations with institutes and area specialists, the Lok Sabha Secretariat procured essential {hardware} and software program to help such individuals to entry library sources, officers stated.

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Visually challenged individuals shall be in a position to hear to the contents of the display screen in Indian accented voices, learn, translate, digitise, take audio output for any printed books, and hear to bodily books, they stated.

Persons with partial blindness who can function computer systems shall be in a position to enlarge the contents of the display screen via magnifiers, whereas these having listening to impairment can have entry to display screen contents via Braille gadgets, a senior official stated.

He stated the parliament library has additionally subscribed to Sugamaya Pustakalaya, India’s largest on-line library of books with entry to greater than six lakh guide titles. These books can now be accessed by totally visually challenged individuals utilizing a daisy participant. 

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