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On 4/26/15, payal jethra <[email protected]> wrote: > Restaurants join the dots > Raul Dias,TNN | Apr 26, 2015, 05.24 AM IST > > Two years ago when visually impaired Bharatnatyam dancer, Gangamma, > 22, visited the US for a performance series, she was amazed at how > aware people were > about visual impairment. Almost every restaurant, for instance, > offered her a Braille or audio menu. For the first time in her life > she could order a meal > for herself without asking for help as she often did back home in > Bengaluru. Around the same time, Bhavna Jain was looking forward to > doing something different > at her vegetarian restaurant Om in Bengaluru's tony neighbourhood of > Koramangala. A chance encounter with Gangamma led Jain to seek the > help of EnAble > India, an NGO that works with the differently abled, to come up with a > Braille menu. She followed it up with an audio menu soon after. Om now > has a steady > stream of visually impaired and other differently abled people coming > in to dine. > > Moses Chowdari Gorrepati, programme manager, training and solutions at > EnAble India, says that creating the Braille menu became a student > project for the > NGO. "From selecting the paper to getting Braille printers, everything > was undertaken by our 2013 batch of students.It gave the students a > sense of purpose, > but it also allowed visually impaired people to dine with dignity," > says Gorrepati. > > `May I Help You?' started as a random event to mark World Disability > Day at Mumbai's Copper Chimney on December 3, 2009. Every diner was > handed a Braille > menu that was read out to them by visually impaired volunteers from > the National Association for the Blind (NAB). > > But the idea stuck on. To day, the upscale multi-cui sine restaurant > has its own permanent set of leather-bound Braille menus. > > Not everyone who is visually impaired can read Braille. "My visual > impairment was gradual and it was only recently that I became totally > blind," says Hyderabad-based > disability consultant Raghavendra Satish Peri who is ra Satish Peri > who is struggling to master Braille. "Although a Braille menu is a > great idea, restau > rants need to adopt a more holistic ap proach for visually impaired > customers, right from soft skills training for their staff to > providing al ternatives > for diners like me who can't read Braille." > > Chennai's Ka lakkal Cafe in Kottur puram understands the needs of > diners like Peri. Positioned as India's first `inclusive' cafe, this > rampequipped cafe > is run by Vidya Sagar, an NGO working for children and adults with > special needs. Not only does the cafe have Braille menus, but it also > has pictorial > menus, tactile walls and even some eating aids -nifty apps like All > Access where users can scan logos and QR codes to access menus. > > Chungwa, a 40-year-old Chinese and Thai restaurant in Delhi's Greater > Kailash area, recently teamed up with Radio Mirchi's corporate social > responsibility > division and NAB to come up with a Braille menu. Chicken Formosa is > just a touch away for visually impaired foodie Naveed Khatri and his > friends from NAB. > "India is home to around 12 million visually impaired people and > providing us with menus we can decipher is important. After all, we > pay the same as anyone > else," asserts Khatri. > > So, what stops other eateries from offering Braille menus? Besides, > apathy , it's the high cost involved in their production, says Nidhi > Arora, founder > of Esha, a non-profit initiative that makes Braille cards and tactile > maps. Esha was also making Braille menus until a few years ago but > stopped as there > wasn't enough demand. > > Gorrepati's students at EnAble have also made Braille menu cards for > another Bengaluru restaurant, Shanthi Sagar, at around Rs 400 per > piece. 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