Tech & People with Disabilities in India: A Few Baby Steps and a Long Way to Go

摘要

When I was asked to write a short feature on how technology has shaped the lives of people with disabilities in India, I warned the editors that being an activist it would be far from 'celebratorial'. As I sit down to write I realise that the picture may not be all rosy and happy, but it is not completely cheerless. I am what most people call technologically challenged. So, therefore I will not pretend to know the jargons and mechanisms behind the technological advances which have impacted the lives of people with disabilities. What I can tell you are lived examples: changes, or in some cases the absence of it, on the ground, in the lives of common people.