Accessibility

TRAI begins discussions on making ICT accessible for disabled

Telecom regulator TRAI began a dialogue on making ICT accessible for the disabled,
saying more policy interventions are needed in this area where benefits of technology have not been fully realised.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), releasing its latest consultation paper on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has also sought industry views on whether handset makers should be mandated to manufacture at least one model for the disabled with assistant technology features such as hearing, visual aids and emergency buttons.

An Accessible Shopping Experience @ Big Bazaar!

With great enthusiasm, Big Bazaar has planned a PWD listening session in 105 stores within 17 cities. The intention is to take feedback from Persons with Speech/Hearing Disability and Persons with Visual Disabilities on their shopping habits and providing them an enhanced customer experience. We are not inviting Persons with physical disabilities because infrastructure changes are currently underway and once it's fully ready, we too will start inviting them.

NDMA seeks Kerala's help to make disabled people disaster-ready

KOLLAM: It was a special occasion for Kerala when it became the first state to launch a disaster preparedness training programme for persons with disabilities. That was in May 2016. A year after, the state is again in the limelight.

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which is in the process of chalking out guidelines for training the differently abled on survival skills in times of natural disasters and other emergency situations, has decided to seek the help of the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) in preparing it.

50 monuments in Gujarat to have Braille signboards

Important travel information for sharing with all visually impaired friends

Please find below information regarding the newly launched company 'Enable Travel', a specialist offering travel / holiday solutions for the disabled.

Powered by Cox & Kings, Enable Travel is India's first digital platform for accessible travel with a national footprint across 15 cities, with more being added in due course.

ACCESSIBILITY ACCORDING TO ACTUAL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about.

In this article I’ll summarize and group the main topics that people bring up in the thread.

But do click on the tweet and read through all the answers. It’s an awesome read for anyone interested in making the web a better place for all. And, in my opinion, a far better place to learn about accessibility than reading any checklist or standard.

How a bunch of Indian tech startups hope to change the world for the visually impaired

An afternoon at the Blind People Association in the sweltering heat of Ahmedabad four years ago changed Gunjan Gupta's life – and may potentially change the life of 12 million visually impaired people in India.

Gupta, then barely 20 years old, was on a fact-finding mission for his final year engineering project on devices for people with visual disability.

Hi-tech, Low-cost Gift to the Blind

When Surabhi Srivastava from Mumbai was judged the winner of the prestigious 2017 ASME Innovation Showcase competition, it was a reconfirmation of her belief that technology should improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged. BrailleMe, the award-winning product developed by her company, Innovision, makes it possible for the visually impaired to access any digital information instantaneously in their own tactile script.

Microsoft hosts Accessibility Summit in Hyderabad

Microsoft India today hosted its first-ever Accessibility Summit here aiming to enhance technology access for people with disabilities.

The summit aimed at demonstrating the business value of accessible technology for organisations, the need for a collaborative effort as well as assessing policy's role in creating an accessible India, a company statement said.

Everybody has the right to travel

It’s a beaming, end-of-trip group picture like countless others, except that three people are in wheelchairs, while a fourth is on crutches. It was taken at the end of a short trip to Udaipur that included visits to the City Palace and Lake Pichola.