Parliament library now obtainable to visually challenged

Through PTI

NEW DELHI: Visually challenged folks will now have more uncomplicated get right of entry to to the huge repository of assets within the parliament library which is now supplied with important assistive applied sciences, officers mentioned.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday inaugurated particular amenities that supply visually challenged folks get right of entry to to greater than 1.7 million publications and assets within the library. Birla took the initiative after he discovered that visually impaired folks have been going through issue in getting access to the library for need of virtual visible aids.

After consultations with institutes and area professionals, the Lok Sabha Secretariat procured important {hardware} and device to lend a hand such folks to get right of entry to library assets, officers mentioned.

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Visually challenged folks will be capable of pay attention to the contents of the display in Indian accented voices, learn, translate, digitise, take audio output for any published books, and pay attention to bodily books, they mentioned.

Individuals with partial blindness who can function computer systems will be capable of amplify the contents of the display via magnifiers, whilst the ones having listening to impairment may have get right of entry to to display contents via Braille units, a senior reputable mentioned.

He mentioned the parliament library has additionally subscribed to Sugamaya Pustakalaya, India’s biggest on-line library of books with get right of entry to to greater than six lakh ebook titles. Those books can now be accessed by way of totally visually challenged folks the use of a daisy participant. 

NEW DELHI: Visually challenged folks will now have more uncomplicated get right of entry to to the huge repository of assets within the parliament library which is now supplied with important assistive applied sciences, officers mentioned.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday inaugurated particular amenities that supply visually challenged folks get right of entry to to greater than 1.7 million publications and assets within the library. Birla took the initiative after he discovered that visually impaired folks have been going through issue in getting access to the library for need of virtual visible aids.

After consultations with institutes and area professionals, the Lok Sabha Secretariat procured important {hardware} and device to lend a hand such folks to get right of entry to library assets, officers mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

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Visually challenged folks will be capable of pay attention to the contents of the display in Indian accented voices, learn, translate, digitise, take audio output for any published books, and pay attention to bodily books, they mentioned.

Individuals with partial blindness who can function computer systems will be capable of amplify the contents of the display via magnifiers, whilst the ones having listening to impairment may have get right of entry to to display contents via Braille units, a senior reputable mentioned.

He mentioned the parliament library has additionally subscribed to Sugamaya Pustakalaya, India’s biggest on-line library of books with get right of entry to to greater than six lakh ebook titles. Those books can now be accessed by way of totally visually challenged folks the use of a daisy participant.