Delivering education digitally to PwDs : Challenges in the times of cornoa-virus pandemic
When i see my 4 year old daughter receiving her class videos on internet in these difficult times of lockdown in view of corona-virus pandemic, i am constantly thinking how the whole ecosystem of education has changed in just a span of one month. We all were talking about shift to online education but none of us knew that it will become mainstream so fast, so seamlessly. But while all of this is happening, is anybody also thinking about Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) or Children with special needs (CwSNs) ! Not many (except government), i guess ! More so because our digital eco system has largely not been designed to address accessibility needs. And since the present shift is being done on a super fast speed, there is hardly any time for retrofitting the digital mediums with accessibility standards and thus leaving a large chunk of audience with special needs (read PwDs/CwSNs) empty handed. Let us try to understand the context of disability first. Disab...