Profile: Blessin Varkey: Creating tech for students with disabilities - [Careers]

For more than seven years, Blessin Varkey has headed the accessibility lab at Tamana, a New Delhi-based nonprofit that runs two schools and a skill development center for individuals with intellectual, learning, and developmental disabilities. At the lab, his team creates tech tools for sharpening the cognitive, behavioral, and social skills of students. Varkey has been invited to speak about accessibility at national as well as international forums such as the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, USA, and the Microsoft Enabling Opportunities Summit in Singapore. Initially though, translating his tech skills for the needs of people with disabilities posed a unique set of challenges.