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Episode: Smartphone app changes learning for Ugandaβs visually impaired students
Description: Access to braille texts remains a major challenge for many visually impaired students in Africa. Slow progress in the advancement of assistive technology has led to many school dropouts. Now, a group of Ugandan developers has come up with a Blind Assistant app that helps read documents aloud.
In the central Ugandan district of Mukono, Sir Apollo Kaggwa Secondary School is among the first to have received training for its 24 visually impaired students and their helpers.
According to a 2014 national census, there are an estimated 250,000 visually impaired people in Uganda. Of those, around 1,500 are schoolchildren.
With limited resources, many of...