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Techies unveil app to help visually and hearing impaired TNN | Nov 21, 2015, 08.59 AM IST BENGALURU: Harshit Kumar, Stalin A, Akshay Tao and Shivaram Subbhaiah, techies with SAP Labs, Bengaluru, put their heads together. The bee in their bonnet was a visually-impaired colleague. "Her courage and spirit got us working on a technology that would be of use to the whole world of people with disabilities," says Harshit. The result: An app that will help vi sually and hearing impaired people access what is happening around them and people around through audio and text messages. The four techies unveiled their Inclusion App at the two-dayIndia Inclusion Summit 2015 that got underway on Friday. The summit is a community driven initiative that brings together thought leaders to deliberate, discuss and take forward diverse talents available in society. It's supported by the government of India, ANZ, Allegis, EnAble India and SAP SE. The app helps people with disabilities to network with NGOs and those who can help them explore opportunities to put their talents to use. For now, the app will display the networking facility only to those participating in the two-day event. "Beyond being touched by personal encounters with physicallyand mentally-challenged people, we were enthused about doing something for them. We did not know that we were developing this app for the event but VR Ferose, senior VP of SAP Labs and founder of the summit, decided to leverage this for a larger target group," says Akshay . Union minister of social justice and empowerment, Thawar C Gehlot announced that the New Sugamya Bharat scheme will be augmented on December 3. Under this scheme, 50 cities will choose 100 buildings each to build disabled-friendly infrastructure.The minister also said a new policy for the disabled people will be tabled in Parliament. The policy will identify 19 disorders to define disability as against 7 included in the present law. The summit also launched the EnAble India Academy that intends to train people with disabilities. The Bengaluru NGO is focusing on starting their initiative with this city. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
