"Visually challenged people have been practicing physiotherapy using both manual techniques and electrotherapy equipments. In the absence of any accessibility features in the electrotherapy equipment, they have depended on ingenious adaptations to use these machines,” according to Dr Sam Taraporevala, director of the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), which has developed a "speaking” machine for the purpose. A report in The Indian Express (IE) of March 15, 2011 reveals that the equipment which the XRCVC has catalyzed can "speak” every aspect of the display, making it the first of its kind in India, nay the world.
(Left) Dr......