Workshop held for visually impaired people

A workshop was held at Bangladesh Computer Council recently having the primary objective for eGeneration to incorporate the feedback and requirements from its users (visually impaired) to make this solution a truly efficient experience.

ICT Division and eGeneration are collaboratively in triumph of developing a screen reader software for visually impaired people of the country.

eGeneration is developing the software ‘Alo’, under the project ‘Enhancement of Bangla Language through ICT (EBLICT),’ said a media statement on Saturday.

According to the statement, the project is aimed to enable people without vision to actively engage and operate computers and gadgets, making them strive out of the dogma they are living with and will be able to make their contributions through digital footprints.

The project is bestowing opportunity of enabling 750,000 visually impaired people in Bangladesh to start a new life and impact their surroundings through active contribution for the society.