http://www.thedailystar.net/editorial/bringing-light-the-visually-impaired-1256683 In our society, people with disabilities stumble in every sphere of their life, due to lack of equal opportunities and poor access to social services. The visually impaired are the worst sufferers as they do not even have access to government policies since these documents are not available in a suitable format for them. Against this background, we want to laud the effort of Manusher Jonno Foundation who has prepared the Braille version of 13 laws and policies of government. These books were handed over at a distribution ceremony held recently in Dhaka to five organisations that work for the visually impaired. This initiative will certainly contribute to empower the disenfranchised people.
This well-timed endeavour should be carried forward and all the laws and policies of the government should be printed in Braille. The government and non-government organisations should join hands in this effort. They should also emphasise on spreading and improving Braille literacy among the visually impaired people so that they can access the Braille documents. There should be innovative solutions to make the ICT related instruction easily accessible to the visually impaired people. Finally, we need to change the public mindset that the visually impaired as also the other categories of physically impaired persons, are a burden to the society, rather if they get equal opportunity they can contribute to the betterment of their family as well as of the country. Copyright: Any unauthorized use or reproduction of The Daily Star content for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and constitutes copyright infringement liable to legal action. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
