Presentation

Description

BGASist Ltd. was established in 2007 to offer on the Bulgarian market Hardware and software products, as well as services specialized for people with visual impairments. BGASist is a social, specialized enterprise, entered in the register of the Agency for People with Disabilities, as over 90% of their employees are people with visual and other impairments. Today the company offers a wide range of products and services with high social value, meeting the growing needs and requirements of customers with visual impairments.

Digital activity

web accessibility

Good practice targeted

Accessibility

Good practice

Regular information campaigns with users and corporate clients of the company in order to present useful software and hardware products for the visually impaired.

Starting date of the good practice

2020

Time to implement the good practice

1 month

Tools/partners/suppliers of the good practice

Mr.Bricolage, Information Services AD, State Agency for e-Government, Sofia Airport, Ministry of Education and Science, Sofia Municipality, Smyadovo Municipality, Kazanlak Municipality, Schools for Visually Impaired Children in Sofia and Varna, University Library at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”, New Bulgarian University, Zahariy Knyazheski Regional Library, Stara Zagora, National Center for Rehabilitation of the Blind, Plovdiv

Hristo Mladenov - user of most of their products and especially participant in each information campaign

What are the benefits of the project ?

For me, information campaigns are essential because I have a vision problem, and this creates a lot of difficulties in my daily life, because I live alone.I would very much like to share how Bg Assist informed me about the Be My Eyes application, which turned out to be the most useful thing in my daily life.This application is a social platform that connects visually impaired users and a network of over 1,700,000 volunteers from 150 countries. Visually impaired users like me want help from a sighted volunteer who is notified on their phone. As soon as he accepts the request for assistance, an audio and video connection is established between the two parties.Visually impaired people can ask for any type of assistance - from understanding the shelf life of a product, to consulting on the colors of the selected clothes.

What were the constraints faced by the company ?

In my opinion, it is very difficult for the information to reach everyone who would find it useful

Which advice would give to another company ?

I would advise everyone who works with people with visual impairments to get acquainted with the new digital solutions to facilitate the daily lives of these people, as well as to be more interested in devices and software products to help them in the workplace, because there are many solutions, as long as we have the information about their existence