Dear All Forwarding a mail from saksham:
With the aim of creating independent access to digital content for persons with visual impairment, Saksham and IIT Delhi, along with the industrial partners KritiKal Solutions and Phoenix Medical Systems have developed "DotBook", an affordable refreshable Braille display. At present, high-end Braille displays are very expensive for users even in high income countries while being completely unaffordable for those in lower-middle income countries like India. Based on IIT Delhi's patented Shape Memory Alloy technology, DotBook brings this cost down to 20%, thus making this solution accessible to the millions who were previously un-catered-to. DotBook comes packed with custom developed applications & features that one would need to independently carry out his / her day to day tasks, be it the educational assignments or office work, with ease, such as: . Full-fledged document processor with Microsoft word abilities to read, edit, navigate, and format documents seamlessly. . Advanced email client to manage multiple email accounts . Built-in Web browser for browsing Web pages at your fingertips. . Access to online digital libraries like Sugamya Pustakalaya, Bookshare etc . Has built-in braille translation that supports open and contracted formats. . Support for commonly used file formats like brf, brl, txt, docx and epub. . Support for Indian languages, pdf, daisy and text to speech available in the near future through software upgrades . The device comes out in two variants: DotBook 40Q, a 40-Cell Display with QWERTY keyboard; and DotBook 20P, a 20-Cell Display with Braille keyboard. The device will be launched on 27th February 2019. For more details, you can write to us at dotb...@saksham.org. Website: www.iable.co (will be released soon) Thanking You, Team DotBook AssisTech | Saksham -- Regards Arti Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
