It is high time visually challenged people are given audio descriptions while watching movies, in museums and in tourism locales, Tiffany Brar, a visually challenged person and founder of Jyothirgamaya Foundation said here on Sunday.
She was speaking on ‘Seeing travel differently: Navigating the world without sight’, at the two-day Kerala for All conclave convened here by the Kerala Tourism in partnership with The Hindu, that concluded on Sunday.
“At innumerable museums and places of worship in the country, people are told not to ‘touch’ anything. This puts people like me who cannot see in a clueless situation,” Ms. Brar said, while contrasting this with visually challenged visitors to many museums in the West being provided with a handheld device that makes audio announcements.
“The absence of an announcement system in public transport buses is yet another constraint, with the result that I myself have alighted at wrong bus stops in Kerala. In addition, there is need to augment wheelchair accessibility in beaches, waterfalls etc.,” she said.
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