[ Originally posted in LinkedIn/pulse on December 11, 2018 ] When I started my work for the blind students, I believed that I would be working for the destitute children who can’t even do their daily chores on their own. But soon I realized I was wrong. To my surprise, I found that these blind children were […]
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[ Originally posted in LinkedIn/pulse on November 24, 2018 ] Isn’t this unfortunate that most of the blind students have to abandon their passion towards Maths just because there are no kits and tools available to learn with? That is what I realized when I worked with the geometry set available to them – one can’t do […]
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[ Originally posted in LinkedIn/pulse on November 3, 2018 ] That is true…! A blind student would need to make 62 braille dots and 31 braille cells to write a simplest Trigonometrical Identity of 17 characters. And we are in an era where we judge a user interface design on number of clicks one would need for conveying an intent. […]
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[ Originally posted in LinkedIn/pulse on October 13, 2018 ] The time was early 2014. We had already released Acrobat XI and were working on Acrobat DC. As a Senior Program Manager, one of my roles was to interface with our support team and track all unsolved issues faced by our Acrobat XI users, so […]
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