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The World Wide Web serves as an excellent platform for information dissemination. Educational institutions such as universities are utilizing the web medium to reach their target audience.

The human dependency on the internet and its services has been phenomenal which makes the web as a vital component. The power of the Web is in its universality. Person with Disabilities (PwDs) have equal opportunity to access this vital resource in a barrier-free setup.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is expanding exponentially. It has evolved into a standard resource to access the required information by people with diverse capabilities, information requirements and language abilities. In the present form, WWW incorporates a large number of human languages. Multilingual Information access involves websites offering content in more than one language.

Security in smartphones has become one of the major concerns, with prolific growth in its usage scenario. Many applications are available for Android users to protect their applications and data.

Indian Government is promoting the concept of Digital India for transforming the country with the recent digital innovations.

Indian Government is promoting the concept of Digital India for transforming the country with the recent digital innovations.

The relevancy and usability of the contents retrieved are the two major factors for deciding the utility value of web resources. In the case of persons with disabilities the usability aspect of the interface is solely dependent on the accessibility of the web contents.

The only available mechanism for Hearing impaired to communicate is the sign language which the general public cannot understand. To bridge this gap in the communication, this paper presents an approach based on QR code and sign language in the smartphone platforms. One of the outstanding benefits of smartphone is providing the real-time information with help of internet and applications.