White Print

India's first English lifestyle magazine in Braille

Problem

There are over 12 million visually impaired people in India, yet there is no substantial emphasis on braille literacy, hindering their communication for a very long time.

Social Impact

  • White Print believes everyone should have access to the internet and strives to make its website accessible to all. It strives to follow the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These recommendations show how web content is accessible to many people with disabilities. Complying with those criteria helps them make the website accessible to blind, motor-impaired, visually-impaired, cognitively impaired, and other users.
  • The magazine covers a broad range of themes, including sports, politics, fashion, entertainment, and technology, as well as short stories and uplifting accounts of people. A column for readers' contributions is also published by White Print.
  • White Print revitalised the Braille literature and the Braille advertising industry. For the first time in their lives, the magazine's readers comprehended the meaning of leisure reading, while the advertisers were, for the first time in their lives, conceiving of ways to market without images and colours.

Solution

White Print is India's 1st lifestyle magazine in Braille. It started in May 2013 and is written in English. The monthly magazine has been an essential source of Braille literature for blind people for the past nine years. It has articles, opinion pieces, and short stories about politics, sports, culture, travel, food, and numerous other topics. The NAB, or National Association for the Blind, prints the magazine and sends it all over India, even to remote areas.

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