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AccessPoint #36: Independence in Transit (opens the original)
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From TQH and Nipman Foundation | Edition Thirty SixFrom the Director’s DeskDear Reader,I have spent the last few weeks worrying about what happens if my wheelchair dies. For almost ten years, I have used an Ottobock Z50 — a power-assist system that effectively gives my manual wheelchair powered wheels. Ottobock has since discontinued it. Conventional power wheelchairs do not work particularly well for the way my body moves and the kind of mobility
AccessPoint #35: The Unexpected Accessibility of Everyday Tech (opens the original)
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From TQH and Nipman Foundation | Edition Thirty FiveFrom the Director’s DeskDear Reader,Shishir Bhatnagar, a captain in the Merchant Navy, fell accidentally into a pool at a wedding celebration in Goa in 2011. This accident would alter his life, leading to a spinal cord injury, making him a quadriplegic wheelchair user. From navigating ships, he was suddenly dependent on others for even the most basic of household work.However, in 2014, he was introduced to a pilot programme by Amazon that broug
AccessPoint #34: A Crime Beyond the Crime (opens the original)
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From TQH and Nipman Foundation | Edition Thirty FourFrom the Director’s DeskDear Reader,On August 20, Cajetan Denis Pires, a 64-year-old amputee, boarded the Divyangjan coach of a Mumbai local train. When Pires allegedly asked an able-bodied man occupying the coach to vacate the seat, an argument followed. As per eyewitness accounts, Pires was pushed out of the movin
AccessPoint #33: The Disability Tax (opens the original)
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From TQH and Nipman Foundation | Edition Thirty ThreeFrom the Director’s DeskDear Reader,Twice a month, Eshana Anand, a tech media professional, needs to go to the hospital for blood transfusions. In addition, she ends up paying for blood filters, tests, iron-chelation medication and other medical consumables. The cost of living with Thalassaemia for her is Rs. 40,000 every month. This expenditure is a “tax” that is earmarked every month just to stay healthy enough to work.As for me, basic funct
AccessPoint #32: Before the Exam Begins (opens the original)
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From TQH and Nipman Foundation | Edition Thirty TwoFrom the Director’s DeskDear Reader,For the longest time in school, I refused to use a scribe. “It is my hands that think,” I told my mother and teachers, even though my handwriting was barely legible, sometimes even to me. Teachers would call me up mid-marking to decipher my own answer sheet, a second examination of sorts.By Class IX, my mother had had enough. She argued I could not travel to an anonymous board examiner and expect them to sit t
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