The goals of EnAble India's technology centre are :

ENABLE the employment, education and rehabilitation of persons with disability with the
help of assistive technology and aids.

To research, produce, and/or initiate new development in the area of assistive technology and
devices for the disabled.

To undertake technology projects for external clients and employ the disabled in such
projects in an integrated environment.

Strategy

"DO NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL - RESEARCH, REUSE AND ADAPT SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR INDIAN CONDITIONS. ELSE DEVELOP"

Projects undertaken

SAFA - Screen Access For All

The large population of the blind and visually impaired in India are unable to use screen reader software for education or work because of two main reasons:

Foreign screen readers are expensive, priced at over Rs.50000 and Indian languages are not their focus

Current Indian development is only on Text to Speech (TTS) engines and Front end interfaces developed for the TTS engine cannot work with the OS and any application

"It is in this context that SAFA, a path breaking initiative for India was conceived by NAB, Delhi ". SAFA is an Indian low-cost windows-based multilingual screen reader product which will enable the use of computers by the visually impaired.
Enable India has been fortunate to have been associated with this project for a period of 10 months and provided project management and consultancy for the development of the version with support for Tamil, Kannada, .NET conversion and additional features.

SAFA Demo version features:

Support for Word, Excel, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer,

Automatic Detection Of Language;Support for English, Hindi, bangle, Tamil, Kannada

User-friendly Installer

Configurable Speed Voice (in English)Commands

Reading Capability Characters, Words, Lines, Window Title

Advanced reading capability

Selection, Word formatting, Word Tables, Most Dialog boxes, Date, Time

Funding Requirement for SAFA

NAB Delhi and Enable India are looking for funding and support for the SAFA project. The project costs include completion of development, which will take 2-3 years and ongoing annual maintenance of the software. For more details contact dipendram@vsnl.net or
EnAble India at enableindia@yahoo.co.in

Digital Talking Book Player for visually impaired

EnAble India developed modules for open source AMIS (DAISY consortium) player project (v1.4) which enables the visually impaired and people with other disabilities use digital audio books. The modules developed include audio component, parsing for random access and TTS (text to speech).