Technologies for elderly blind

Status and opportunities for promoting use of assistive technologies and content for persons with disabilities in India: Survey

A young visually impaired girl using sonic labeller. Text reads Status and opportunities for promoting the use of assistive technologies and content for persons with disabilities in India: Survey.

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Saksham launched its survey, ‘Status and opportunities for promoting use of Assistive technologies and content for persons with disabilities in India’, as part of its research project with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry. The research project aims to understand how and what tools, technologies and content personsContinue reading “Status and opportunities for promoting use of assistive technologies and content for persons with disabilities in India: Survey”

India’s Saksham Trust Recognized as WSIS Champion 2021!

The banner has 4 different pictures of online training and classes taken by Saksham. Texy on the banner reads SAKSHAM BECOMES WSIS 2021 CHAMPION!- For our work towards empowering persons with visual impairment (PVIs) during the pandemic.

Saksham Trust (and its subsidiary Saktek Foundation) became one of the final champions of the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society Prizes (WSIS) 2021 in the cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content category. Held virtually this year, the event took place on 19 May 2021 and was presided by Mr HoulinContinue reading “India’s Saksham Trust Recognized as WSIS Champion 2021!”

Technologies for elderly blind

Vision loss among the elderly population is a major health problem. According to the Journal of American Family Physician (Vol. 60/No. 1), approximately one person in three has some form of vision-reducing eye disease by the age of 65 In U.S.A. The prevalence of visual impairment among the elderly is much higher in developing countriesContinue reading “Technologies for elderly blind”