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July 17, 2008
Registrations are now open! Techshare India 2008 Road Shows – Breaking the Barriers
Filed under: Assistive Technologies, Elderly, Hearing, Learning, Mobility, Techshare India, Visual — Shilpi Kapoor @ 12:46 pmHi all,
It’s been some time I blogged about Techshare India 2008 Road Show that would be organized at Bangalore and Mumbai.
I am excited to let you all know that registrations are now open for Techshare India 2008 Road Show that will be held at Bangalore on 29th August, 2008 and during October, 2008 at Mumbai.
We are having speakers who has rich experience in the area of people with disabilities, accessibility and assistive technologies. Some of our key speakers would be Shilpi Kapoor of BarrierBreak Technologies, Dr. Poonam Gupta of CDAC Noida, Vikas Sharma of AccessAbility, Omprakash Subbarao of Yahoo! India and many more…
Besides presentations, there will be state-of-the-art Experience Zone demonstrating different assistive technologies and devices for people with disabilities.
Visit Techshare India Website for updates and registration process!
No CommentsJuly 11, 2008
My first experience at Bangalore International Airport
Filed under: Elderly, General, Visual — Shilpi Kapoor @ 2:46 pmHi everyone!
It was 8:00 AM yesterday I landed at Bangalore International Airport. Right from the aircraft, I got the air-bridge till 1st Floor of the airport and then I used escalator to reach ground floor. One thing I liked is the sign boards indicating way to different areas are provided with a larger font which made me easy to find out the Information Centre and gate number on my return.
Lifts have Braille labels and audio alerts were provided. However, it was a bit difficult to find the locations of buttons as they were in same color of the wall. But interesting thing is buttons were given horizantally and at low height. It would help people who use wheel chair to access independently.
Partitions are made up of glass and it was difficult to identify as the floor was also in the same color though there were few chairs attached to partition.
Further, Step edges of stair case are not marked with different color and hence it was difficult to identify steps.
Overall, color contrast need to be taken care in a better way and it would have been good if the floor has little rough surface.
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