Indonesian schools usually feature open-air dining areas, presenting a specific health risk: flies landing on children and their food. In the country’s hot and humid climate, flies are vectors for diseases like diarrhea, dysentery, typhus, and cholera. The issue is especially acute in schools near markets, landfills, and other favored breeding grounds.
The font library developed by Alibaba Health, the group’s digital healthcare and pharmaceutical e-commerce business, supports inputting Braille with Pinyin, the official romanization system for standard Mandarin Chinese. And they made it open source for more people to use.
Anghami, the leading music streaming app for the Middle East and North Africa, created a very inclusive device so that everyone can be touched by its music. Sole Music is a specially designed insole with integrated technology that can be placed in any shoe, like headphones for feet. It pairs wirelessly with any mobile, allowing the hearing impaired to enjoy musical vibrations on the go from the music streaming platform.
Procter & Gamble’s mass hair care brand Herbal Essences introduced tactile markings on select bottles in North America – providing raised stripes for shampoo and circles for conditioner on its bio:renew range. These markings are going to be rolled out across all shampoo and conditioner ranges.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 15% of the world’s population has a disability, which amounts to over 1 billion people. In the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that over 61 million people have a disability, which makes up about 26% of the U.S. population.