“There are several national and international accessibility paradigms like internet, desktop accessibility and mobile applications whose standards are reviewed by various bodies under the WorldWide Web Consortium, where several people of related areas assemble and work together in area of accessibility. By setting up this lab, we’ll be a part of these working groups. Accessibility is a discipline of computer science and through this we are making things usable for the entire visually disabled society,” said Bhole.

Since there’s no additional software or accessibility options available for the visually impaired and other disabled students of technology at the university or elsewhere, the students at present use screen reading software in the learning lab to read pages on computers.

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“The software companies are not bothered whether such accessibility programmes are implemented or not for the disabled. The screen reader can’t even read a PDF file, which is not designed as per required. Incidentally, even the UoP site does not hold such facility for the disabled. Once this is implemented in various webpages and applications, it will be useful to all researchers and students, as they will be able to browse freely,” Bhole said.u00a0