Visually impaired

Opting out of their job placements, the IIT students behind this brilliant product chose to "make the Braille laptop accessible to the millions who were previously uncatered to". #IIT #Inclusive #Innovation

This walk was part of a greater initiative titled India Heritage Walk Festival, a collaboration of Sahapedia and YES Arts & Culture.

27-year-old Ankita Gulati has developed a digital inclusion device which allows the visually-impaired to access diagrams and pictorial content.

Interestingly, one of the brains behind this awesome project also runs ‘Sparshdnyan’, India’s first Marathi Braille newsletter!

The 15-year-old was travelling with her father in the differently-abled compartment of a Mumbai local at the time of the incident.

The startup has invented a device that can help the visually impaired come closer to the world around them.

“Our artists have come up with these ideas after spending time with students of blind schools. Just as people who can see getting excited about Durga Puja when they see pandals coming up, the sound of sawing and nails being hammered into wooden planks makes the visually impaired realise that Puja is approaching.”

A fighter with a never-give-up attitude; he wishes for the government to equip the country with facilities akin to those abroad.

Students from The Galaxy School created braille numbering in elevators of residential apartments in Rajkot, and are on a mission to demand infrastructural support for India’s blind population.

From Disability Coordinators at all levels to sign language windows in training modules, Election Commission is going all out to make Indian polls a lot more inclusive!