Inspiration
“Abled does not mean enabled. Disabled does not mean less abled.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Today, around 15 per cent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. They are the world’s largest minority. For deaf people, however, the major barriers are Lack of recognition, Acceptance, and use of sign language in all areas of life, and Lack of respect for their cultural and linguistic identity. Acceptance too sign language is one of the major ways how we can better communicate and understand them. Moreover, around 1 in 5 of the world's children and adolescents have a mental disorder. Disabled people have reported having frequent mental distress as well. we need to have an inclusive and safe space to solve this together!
Our Goal
To promote awareness about disabled individuals through interactive techniques and to disseminate information about them through various interactive channels more about sign language communication and help everyone effectively communicate in sign language! Moreover, helping people with visual and mental disabilities as well!
What it does
It's a portal where we've various features to help create a safe space for disabled people!
Key Features
- Discussion Room: Using discussion rooms usually entails mustering the confidence to tell your tale. People with sensitive stories or who are socially anxious frequently avoid employing this kind of catharsis. Here they can either be public or anonymously share their views on some specific topic or create some new threads and share their heart out! It's an open space to discuss things freely. Users can create threads and continue their discussion either openly or anonymously.
- Solace Zone: We've added a personal diary feature, where the users can add in their notes, day-to-day activities. We also have added a calm room, a place where user can log into and listen to mind soothing beats of the ocean. Because at times all we need is a place to rest, a place to find solace!
- ASL Translator (speech and text to asl) Our application has a speech to sign language translation tool where a user can simply speak, and the message will be translated to sign language. It also has a text to ASL translation support, users can simply write/paste their message and the message is translated to ASL.
- Colorblind extension Its goal is to help visually impaired people see text easily. User can directly activate the extension and select various of the options to get started!
How we built it
We built it using Angular and Firebase.
Challenges we ran into
Implementing all the features in the given time constraint was one of the major challenges for us! Managing our time, the right way helped us a lot in successfully building the product. It was an amazing learning experience for us overall!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of overcoming our challenges and building the application.
What we learned
A lot and lot of things, it was such a fun experience! It was amazing to see it working finally!
What's next for the project
Adding more features for so everyone can better connect, adding more support for accessibility, and so much more!
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