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Title: BLIND POPULATION HELPED BY AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Jayaditya Roy
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Jayaditya Roy Boston World School
MLA 8 Roy, Jayaditya. "BLIND POPULATION HELPED BY AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 240-255, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i01.018. Accessed Jan. 2022. APA 6 Roy, J. (2022, January). BLIND POPULATION HELPED BY AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 7(1), 240-255. Retrieved from doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i01.018 Chicago Roy, Jayaditya. "BLIND POPULATION HELPED BY AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 7, no. 1 (January 2022), 240-255. Accessed January, 2022. doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i01.018.
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ABSTRACT: The research is collected using methods such as human observation, open surveys, or using an instrument or sensor to monitor or use recorded information, e.g. by using data available on the Internet to justify something or to express a point of view. The maximum not unusual place reasons of visible impairment globally are uncorrected refractive mistakes (43%), cataracts (33%), and glaucoma (2%). Other problems which could cause visible issues consist of age-associated macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, corneal clouding, formative years blindness, and some infections. The Government believes that before they tend to expect the advantages of schemes like Digital India to increase to the blind population, they’d like to widen their view of individuals with visual impairment. Technology, and the increasing digital world, has created its potential for individuals with visual impairment to cross the boundaries of confinement and enter the mainstream. Access to helpful technology-enabled devices and the net makes it possible for blind people to operate severally and avail numerous services on their own. There are various organisations in India who take initiatives to help the blind. They provide a variety of choices with schemes to assist the visually impaired resembling the attention health programmes covering schools, urban areas and rural settlements, to deliver good-quality eye care to everybody who wants it. Schemes provided by the organisations such as Fullerton India has the Jyoti-Save yojna the attention CSR initiative is to not solely provide access to quality eye care at the community' doorstep, but to enhance awareness and to address the incidences of ‘avoidable blindness’. Moreover on the International Day of Education 2020, technical school Mahindra Foundation in association with Thinkerbell Labs put in Annie – the world’s initial Braille acquisition device across completely different locations in India, etc. The Idea of helping the visually impaired people through latest technology was implemented through a mobile app which is known as Google Lookout that uses AI to describe surroundings for the visually impaired. Google has launched its Lookout app, that uses computer science (AI) to assist the visually impaired see by pointing their phone at objects and receiving verbal feedback. Also WHO contributes in many ways to help the visually impaired, for example it has development and implementation tools to support countries to assess the provision of eye care services. There are 2.2 billion blind human beings within the entire world. China owes approximately 18% of blind human beings. Moreover, research based on the recent population for the entire age range, suggests that the number of blind people in India is currently over 18 million. As Through numerous researches over the years partially blind people have been able to overcome their disability with the help of eyeglasses/spectacles.

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