By Sathiya B | Executive Director
Summary: Main objective of the project is to provide braille laptop to students with any kind of visual disability (from low vision and complete blindness to people at risk of losing vision with time) from economically backward and marginalized communities to promote reading and literacy.
As part of it with the support of funds received through GlobalGiving project we are planning to procure the Dotbook laptop which can help students to read normal content from a pen drive or mail in braille and also to write reports/documents in braille which can be saved and shared as word or other files in text. We are yet to receive required funds to procure braille refreshable device as per plan.
Self-reading helps Visually Impaired people to attain more knowledge than listening to audio or books read by others. Braille is one media for them to do self-reading but getting so many braille books is still difficult for the students across India – reason being braille conversion is a tedious process and even expensive. Also lot of paper consumption since it comes to thrice the pages of a normal printed book. Dotbook will help to save the environment by reducing paper consumption and also the Visually Impaired students to read any e-copy books without hindrance and we are sure this will help 100s of Visually Impaired students to achieve their aspiration.
By Sathiya B | Project Leader
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