A better smart phone experience for visually impaired !!!!!

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         In this world of comfort loving people, gadgets play a crucial role in easing our tasks. We have a plethora of gadgets available like music machines,tablets,mobile phones and many more, which assists us in various ways. Since the past decade users started rating their gadgets based on the simplicity in the interface. In this span of a decade the conventional screens were completely substituted by the touch screen. Here arises a question. "Does these fancy touch screens provide same sort of user experience for the wide variety of users in the market?" The answer is obviously no. In this smart phone era we are utilizing our mobile phone in many ways for a wide variety of tasks with a matter of a touch. But we have to keep in mind that with these kind of touch screens and smart phone experience, we are actually complicating the mobile phone experience for some kind of users who are suffering from bad sight because it is hard to use a touch screen than a conventional keypad for visually impaired (Even we can hit an SMS without having a glance at the keypad but replicating the same task with a touch screen is practically impossible). Around 285 million suffer with the problem of bad eye sight world wide and one-fifth of that total value live in India. In order to overcome this barrier lot of proposals and utilities were introduced to provide a better experience for people with bad sight but they were not so successful due to several practical problems.

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It is a bitter truth to know that there are still some areas on this planet where common public dwell but purely depend only on the natural source of light other than electricity. These people are ignorant about the benefits of electricity and are at a million miles distance to artificial light. They spend their nights in darkness and occasionally depend on few oils for lighting up the home. Yes these are the pathetic lives of several citizens of rural Africa. These areas are off the grid and installation of solar panels and wind mills is not feasible and thus these areas are cursed with lack of electric facility. According to a survey by United nations Secretary General nearly 1.3 billion people or about one in five in the world lack basic electricity at home. So when the sun goes down in these villages there will be no electric lights to pierce the darkness and people depend on Kerosene and candles for light that too if they have money. So their life is always interrupted by darkness.