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ACCESS IT is an application focusing on making everything accessible to everyone!

ACCESSIT: A safe space and a platform for raising awareness on disabilities.

Inspiration

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. So, the idea of Access it rose with a mission of accessibility for everyone!

Our Goal

To promote awareness about disabled individuals through interactive techniques and to disseminate information about them through various interactive channels and help everyone effectively communicate in sign language.

What it does

Our Key Features:

☄️Communicate with ASL (Translator)

• 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.

☄️ Opportunity Page:

• It's the place where opportunities for the disabled people specifically will be posted, also various other information about upcoming events, volunteering activities will be present. Any student can click on hashtag, check all opportunities/events under that hashtag, and subscribe to it to get further notifications! Here users can also come and make an announcement regarding any upcoming opportunity/ volunteering opportunity/ event. Users can add the event/opportunity description, hashtag, and respective links to the event.

☄️Mood Tracker and Notes

It's a safe space for oneself, a place to be us, a place to jot down all the notes and have them handy anytime! Moreover, color the tracker with the shades of your mood over time!

☄️Forum:

• Using forums 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.

☄️Articles

• A place where specifically picked articles will be shared with our users. it'll help us spread more awareness and openness in the community!

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

We learned a lot about ASL and disabled persons while developing an app to raise awareness about it. We had a lot of features planned at first, but we realized they weren't viable and didn't fit the narrative. We learned how to write a narrative for our project. During the hackathon, we also experimented with a few recent technologies.

What's next for ACCESS IT

We successfully used lobe for image recognition and translating the images (ASL language) into English text. We look forward to integrate it with our application in future and provide asl to English translator on our application via image recognition. Many other amazing features also to be added!

So let's ACCESS IT!

Built With

• angular.js
• firebase