Uganda’s blind assistant app: a step forward in education

Many visually impaired students in Africa still struggle to access braille texts, leading to high school dropout rates due to slow progress in assistive technology. However, a team of developers from Uganda has created the Blind Assistant app, which can read documents aloud to help address this issue.

Susan Nakajje, one of the co-founders of the Blind Assistant app, shared that they initially teach users how to use smartphones.

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