Amba Dalmia Resource Centre For Visually Challenged Students
Miranda House is the first college to establish a computer-based resource centre to aid its visually-challenged students. Networked computers facilitate work with talking software such as Jaws and Kurjweil. The college has an audiobook production facility in a specially-designed recording room.
It has a large collection of Braille books. The college is establishing a programme to make each visually-challenged student fluent in use of the technology.
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