Taking a big step towards making the campus disabled-friendly, Miranda House has become the first Delhi University college to put up "digital vision signages" on its premises to help its 70 visually challenged students find their way across the college.
Under the "mapped by digital vision" programme, Miranda House has installed 100 QR code acrylic sheets. When a smartphone with a customised app comes within three feet of a code, verbal messages go out identifying the location and giving other details.
Shanti Chaurasia, a Hindi honours student at Miranda, said that as a visually challenged girl it would have been tough for her to move around the campus. "But the app installed in my phone is very smooth and through its verbal messages, it helps me whenever I mistakenly go to some other area."
The 18-year-old student said she was trained on how to use the app by teachers who had installed it on her phone when she took admission.
Not only other colleges of Delhi, but colleges all over should have such facilities to help students who are visually challenged.
Read more of this in a report of Mohammad Ibrar in TOI.....
