{"id":1034808,"date":"2026-09-12T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034808"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:26:40","slug":"tech-boost-for-visually-impaired-students-madhyamik-achievers-receive-laptops-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/tech-boost-for-visually-impaired-students-madhyamik-achievers-receive-laptops-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech boost for visually impaired students: Madhyamik achievers receive laptops, smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 students with varying degrees of visual impairment, who cleared Madhyamik 2026, were felicitated in Calcutta on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The top eight students, who scored 88% or more, were given laptops. The remaining students received smartphones. <\/p>\n<p>The devices provided to the students had accessibility and reading software. <\/p>\n<p>Screen-reading software allows visually impaired users to navigate applications, type messages, read digital content and browse the internet independently. With headphones or external keyboards, students can also listen to what they type, helping strengthen their reading and writing skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 students with varying degrees of visual impairment, who cleared Madhyamik 2026, were felicitated in Calcutta on Sunday. The top eight students, who scored 88% or more, were given laptops. The remaining students received smartphones. The devices provided to the students had accessibility and reading software. Screen-reading software allows visually impaired users to navigate applications, type messages, read digital content and browse the internet independently. With headphones or external keyboards, students can also listen to what they type, helping strengthen their reading and writing skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034909,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034808\/revisions\/1034909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}