Education Taiwan Project #8480

Rehabilitation for The Visually Impaired in Taiwan

by Taiwan Digital Talking Books Association (TDTB)

Rehabilitation for The Visually Impaired in Taiwan

Project Report | Jan 15, 2013
Report of rehabilitation program: 2012

By Andrew Ma | coordinator of promotion group

forum of internet accessibility

Recording of Digital Talking Books

From October to December, we finished recording thirteen books including8016 These thirteen books are good for visually impaired people, and we will give these books to the visually impaired as soon as possible. In the future, we will continue recruiting volunteers and recording daisy digital
talking books.

Computer Training Courses

With your support, we have accomplished over 448 hours of computer training course in 2012, and there were over 47 visually impaired people learning the courses. Our computer courses include introduction of screen reader (NVDA), basic computer information, sound editing software (such as goldwave), blogs and surfing the internet, E-mail, Facebook, operation of windows, Microsoft Office and Youtube.

We also provide psychological counseling services. Our social workers will talk to the visually impaired one by one and know their needs. Also we hired professional counselors to help the visually impaired. In 2012, we offered 120 people counseled by psychological counselors.

Test of internet accessibility and forums in universities

In order to improve the accessibility of internet, we hold ten forums in 10 universities in Taiwan. We talked about the necessity of internet accessibility, and showed the students how to test the accessibility of a website. After 10 forums, we invited those students to test 60 websites in Taiwan. In the end, there were 256 defects of internet
accessibility found among those websites. We ranked five excellent students and gave them prize money.

We are greatly thankful to all donors, and we will continue our work and do our best to help the visually impaired in Taiwan!

computer training class

training class of volunteer

Links:

homepage of TDTB

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Oct 11, 2012
Report of rehabilitation program June to August

By Andrew Ma | coordinator of promotion group

sharing session of garden of heart

New activity: Sharing Session of Garden of Heart

This year, TDTB held a new activity of Sharing Session of Garden of Heart. on the website of TDTB, we got a section of recording beautiful articles: Garden of Heart. For years, TDTB gathered many beautiful articles, those are enlightened and meaningful articles. Now there are more than 100 articles in the section of Garden of Heart. We hoped that people can share their feelings and feedback about the Garden of Heart. In this case, TDTB held a Sharing Session. Visually impaired people in Taiwan can join this sharing session, it's a wonderful chance to share feelings and feedbacks. more information: http://www.tdtb.org/heart/index.html

Recording of Daisy Books

From June to August, TDTB has finished one book named Mendel, the Father of Genetics. This book is the biography of a outstanding scientist, Mendel. The topics of our DAISY books include Literature, Traditional Custom, Education, Novel, Life philosophy, Children Book, and so on. We also started to record many children books from July. There will be more than twenty books in the end of this year. Visually impaired people can join our member for free. And members of this DAISY platform can download our daisy books on the platform: http://www.tdtb.org/daisybooks/ We believe our books can give the visually impaired more information.

Volunteer Training

We have accomplished a volunteer training course, which is about DAISY book production. TDTB cooperate with a world-wide company in Taiwan: UPS. UPS plays a leading role of enabling commerce around the world. TDTB sent two teachers to UPS Taipei branch, and there were about 50 employees in UPS attending this volunteer training. In the training, teacher taught those volunteers how to make a DAISY book, including editing a document and making a table of contents. At the end of the training class, most of volunteers want to make a DAISY book, and they felt happy to contribute their time and energy to help visually impaired people in Taiwan.

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teaching computer (screen reader)

Links:

Garden of Heart

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Jun 5, 2012
Report of rehabilitation program Mar. to May

By Andrew Ma | coordinator of promotion group

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Mr. Lin's story

“Blindness is like the prison of my soul. I feel meaningless and empty in my life. Fortunately, I learned screen reader and computer courses. I can reconnect with the world now!” by Mr. Lin

Mr. Lin owns a company, but his eyes had serious problems three years ago. When he became legally blind, he fell into a deep abyss of depression. His heart was closed, and he didn’t go out. For three years, he only went to his company and didn’t go anywhere. Sometimes there are some NGO trying to help him, but he refused.

During this period, Mr. Lin lost his connection with the world. Taiwan Digital Talking Books Association (TDTB) helped Mr. Lin use screen reader, and he can operate computer well now. “I feel so good,” he said. “I can use e-mail; I can browse the websites as well.” The Most important of all, he finally goes out from darkness and gets his smile back.

Recording of Daisy Books

From March to May, TDTB has finished three books. The topics of these books include Literature, Traditional Custom, Education, Novel, Life philosophy, Children Book, and so on. Visually impaired people can join our member for free. And members of this DAISY platform can download our daisy books on the platform: http://www.tdtb.org/daisybooks/ We believe our books can give the visually impaired more information.

Volunteer Training

We have accomplished a volunteer training course, which is about DAISY book production.

TDTB cooperate with a famous company in Taiwan: Everlight Electronics. Everlight Electronics plays an important role in the global LED industry. On May 17^th, TDTB sent two teachers to Everlight Electronics, and there were about twenty employees in Everlight Electronics attending this volunteer training. In the training, teacher taught those volunteers how to edit a document, how to make a table of contents. At the end of the training class, most of volunteers made a DAISY book successfully, and they felt happy to contribute their time and energy to help visually impaired people.

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nvda course

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