{"id":101122,"date":"2021-04-12T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=101122"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:33:13","slug":"diksha-platform-visually-challenged-struggle-with-e-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/diksha-platform-visually-challenged-struggle-with-e-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DIKSHA Platform&#8221; -Visually challenged struggle with e-textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>As per a study by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Visually impaired students can\u2019t access more than half of NCERT material on DIKSHA platform.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The study conducted<\/strong> a systematic review of the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing(DIKSHA) portal. The platform is a national platform for school education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>It analyzed how much the DIKSHA portal is <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/most-public-buses-are-not-accessible-to-pwds\/\">Accessible for Students with Visual Disabilities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the key findings?<\/strong> The assessment of inaccessibility was conducted on two fronts:<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Inaccessibility of the DIKSHA platform:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The DIKSHA web platform has a variety of accessibility issues. That makes it difficult for visual disabilities persons to independently navigate it to search and access the content they are looking for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Inaccessibility of the resources on the DIKSHA platform:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NCERTs: <\/strong>All chapters sampled from NCERT e-textbooks uploaded in an appropriate e-text format. However, only 36.4% were completely accessible and 54.5% had inaccessible elements and 9.1% were completely inaccessible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SCERTs: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 21 SCERT chapters sampled for Tamil Nadu, 90.5% were totally inaccessible. Only one of the sampled chapters was totally accessible using a screen reader.<\/li>\n<li>Out of the 22 SCERTs chapters sampled for Telangana, none were totally inaccessible. However, 95.5% were partially inaccessible, and only one chapter was totally accessible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subject wise Inaccessibility: <\/strong>Mathematics chapters had the highest number of inaccessible learning activities at 80%. Following that are English, Science, and Geography chapters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>About DIKSHA Platform:<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DIKSHA<\/strong> (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is a national platform for teachers to excel in school education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched by: <\/strong>It is an initiative of the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The DIKSHA platform offers engaging learning material, relevant to the prescribed school curriculum, to teachers, students, and parents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> DIKSHA made it possible amid Corona Pandemic, for all states and Union Territories, to enable learning and education at home through innovative state programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GQT8FKK3D.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0As per a study by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Visually impaired students can\u2019t access more than half of NCERT material on DIKSHA platform. About the study: The study conducted a systematic review of the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing(DIKSHA) portal. The platform is a national platform for school education. Purpose: It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/diksha-platform-visually-challenged-struggle-with-e-textbooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;DIKSHA Platform&#8221; -Visually challenged struggle with e-textbooks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[1309],"class_list":["post-101122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-education_related","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}