Accessibility

From a change in the logo of the ladies' coach to India's first heritage monument with a breastfeeding room, these initiatives are making strong statements!

“A little research revealed that every year over 40,000 people in India lose their upper arms, and 85 per cent of them continue to live without any solution. And, the majority come from economically underprivileged sections."

“We were shocked to realise that even well-educated visually-challenged adults would not have a clear idea of maps - we wanted to go a step higher than that."

Wanting to make the path easier for the visually impaired (VI) people is the non-profit initiative, Hear2Read, which uses Text to Speech (TTS) software that processes visual content into audio.

In March 2016, Twitter announced a feature that allows users to caption their photographs before they share them.

The UNICEF's report titled State of the World's Children 2017: Children in a digital world highlights how the internet in India is still a gender-based privilege, a ‘male bastion’ or ‘male preserve.’

Some of the features include lift operating buttons with information in Braille script at all levels of the station, a tactile strip that will be fixed from the street level till the edge of the platform to aid the visually impaired navigate their way and specially designed ticket vending machines to help the speech impaired folks.

This 26-year-old from Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, has suffered more than 50 fractures till date. Undefeated in spirit, he is the recipient of the CavinKare Ability Mastery Award 2017.

A car junkie turned accessibility evangelist, Ferdinand 'Ferdi' Rodricks has spent the last 30 years using his engineering skills to create mobility solutions for the differently-abled.

Many women and girls across India continue to adopt unsafe and unhygienic menstrual practices. This NGO is trying to tackle that with making pads more accessible.