Deaf Employees Welf.Association & Anr vs Union Of India & Ors on 12 December, 2013
If a visually impaired person walks by a bakery and the door is not
open and he does not smell it, he does not know it is there. It cannot also be
forgotten that there is a great amount of pressure on the visually impaired to be
independent on their journey and seeking aid from another human is the last
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resort. We find that providing ways of gathering contextual information about
points of interest along a route is a subject of research for improving the living
conditions of visually impaired particularly in urban orientation. The Supreme
Court also recently in Deaf Employees Welfare Association v. Union of India
(2014) 3 SCC 173 noticed the unprecedented increase in the commutation time
between the residence and place of work and which affects the work
environment in the office adversely as the employee spends much of their
energy in commuting and observed that in case of persons with disability the
situation is more grave.