An incident in Karnataka has drawn attention towards the access and availability of mental health help for people with disability. Pradeep PK is a resident of Malleswaram living with hearing impairment. To find assistance, he downloaded the telemanas app. Telemanas is an initiative by the government of India for providing free and immediate mental health support 24/7. What he found was that the application had no provision for people with hearing impairment. It only allows making phone calls. There was no mention of any WhatsApp number or email that could provide psychological help on chat-based queries. All this exercise in the hope of getting mental health support turned into frustration. What was more disappointing was that although there were several other mental health support platforms, both private and government-based, that provided support on call. He could find no alternative way of communication, such as chat-based, email support or messaging services.…