#BlindnessAwarenessMonth – TouchVision brings pictures alive for people with vision impairments
Technology October 6, 2020
October is Blindness Awareness Month and we will bring you stories of people and organisations that are making a difference in significant ways to the lives of people with blindness and low vision. Today, we tell you how Touch Vision is making subjects like science, maths and geography accessible to visually impaired children.
From poorly trained teachers to lack of accessible reading materials, the exclusion faced children who are visually impaired is evident in multiple ways.
It also denies them the freedom of pursuing subjects of their choice, especially those that rely on the use of diagrams or images, like science, maths and geography.
Something lawyer Maitreya Shah was acutely aware of right through his years in school.
“I lost my vision completely by the time I was in class 7 and unlike others who are blind from birth, I had the advantage of knowing what some of these diagrams looked like, [...]