History was made last week in Amman, Jordan when a group of 16 Jordanian blind girls passed the ICDL exam with two girls achieving higher scores. What made such an event unique is the fact that the blind girls took the Arabic ICDL exam without any sighted help. The girls obtained training in the Saudi Jordanian Institute for the Blind in Amman which qualified them to take the exam.
Jordanian comedian celebrity Mr. Nabil Sawalha spoke to Auda Hazeem, Nattiq's CEO, from Amman Jordan to discuss his role to lend a helping hand to blind people in Jordan. The call was arranged by Mr. Ahmad Allawzi, President of the Friendship Association for the Blind in Jordan,. Mr.
A focus group met online yesterday, Saturday June 2nd, through Skype and discussed adaptive technology companies in the Middle East. Representatives from all competing companies were invited to interact with the group.
Hal and Supernova screen readers offered by Nattiq Technologies sport new map files designed to allow blind users to access software packages originally intended for mainstream IT users. Map files for Visual Studio 2005 was developed for those users of Hal who intend to learn programming languages. Visual Basic, C++ and Java is only a few packages to mention.
After several weeks of waiting, new customers may now obtain their Hal programs. Due to various testing activities associated with the Arabic version, the latest release of Hal was held up to ensure its compliance with some expected Arabic requirements. The latest development on Hal included the addition of all online help screens in Arabic.
Ms. Najiba Alhusani of Dubai Immigration Department achieves a daily record of 1000 scanning and data entry per work day. The story was reported last week in the daily Emirates Today newspaper. Ms. Alhusani was trained on Arabic Hal and uses it to accomplish her daily workloads.
Thirteen Blind Jordanian young ladies are expected to pass the last part of the ICDL test before the end of June 2007 according to the Saudi Jordanian Institute for Blind Ladies in Jordan. The last part of the test is pending and is expected to be successfully completed by all 13 young ladies.
