Hello all, Hope everyone is in great health. Few days ago, I read saksham's mail about the accessibility events at LPU on this group. It is a great initiative, I feel. On that, I got an idea, such kind of events should be held in as many colleges as possible. There should be organisations that go and demonstrate assistive technologies and give lectures on problems faced by the disabled and available solutions. For example, I study at Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce, Pune. People there are quite helpful, they will assist you if you ask and even approach you themselves, if they see you struggling in anyway. However, no one exactly knows about assistive technologies much and how blind people exactly function. Most know only few things, the blind cane, braille (maybe some) and have weird myths like blind people have some super cense. A pessimistic thought could be that, sited are not interested in all of this, but I believe that some will be, only they don't know much about all of this. I had to make an audio clip explaining how does a screen reader work and share on my whatsap group because people weren't understanding, how am I using a phone. I know the mail has gotten a bit long, but I felt a need to put out this suggestion. If blind and sited collaborate somehow, it could bring out even better results.
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