I'm curious to know about if this ap serving well to the disabled people. http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/Let-Your-Heart-Go-On/2015/11/23/article3138365.ece
Loveability isn’t just your average matchmaking app. It’s the first matchmaking mobile app focusing on people with disabilities, health disorders and special needs. The brainchild of Kalyani Khona, Shankar Srinivasan and Lina Piedrahita, the idea stemmed from a matrimonial website they were working on in 2014.”With that initial project we managed to reach 150 people and that’s when we realised what a big difference we were making,” says Kalyani. A few successful stories and Kalyani decided not to look back. “To widen our audience base and ensure everyone is provided with equal opportunities to find love, we decided to move to a mobile app platform,” she says. Given the amount of disabled people across the country who are looking for a life partner, this smart, energetic app could be the elusive answer they are looking for. Kalyani makes it clear that she is a ‘businesswoman’ and the reason they’re doing this is because there is high demand in the market. “Forty per cent of our investors are people who use it, clearly shows the demand that exists for the app,” says Kalyani. “Internationally, there exists no mobile app which caters to matchmaking and dating needs for people with disability, which is why we are so much in demand,” she adds. But this pioneering app was not a easy project. For the visually impaired, who formed a huge section of their users, the team needed to create viable alternative to pictures for other blind users to check out, “12 million people with visual impairment in India miss out. But we have screen readers and talk-back technology, which allows users to listen to the text with the help of speech synthesizers,” says Kalyani. With six months of research before launching the app, the team was able to address many other challenges. “Matchmaking among people facing disorders happens more on an intellectual level than a physical one. Thus, we intend to focus more on details such as medication, possibility of cure, level of independence, instruments used rather than horoscopes, caste, religion or only pictures,” explains Kalyani. Looking ahead, the team is now looking forward to doing some research on neural disabilities like dyslexia, to attempt to build a customised interface for them to find love. Live, Love, learn! The app is accessible to people with disabilities and matches people on the basis cure availability, medical condition, level of independence and lifestyle choices. In the trial version for 150 users in October, the app gained a success rate of 90 per cent -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..
