Empowering Visually Impaired Individuals with Inclusive ICT Solutions
Learn about accessible and inclusive ICT solutions for persons with disabilities, specifically focusing on the challenges faced by visually impaired individuals in navigation, reading, and typing tasks. Explore the innovative solutions proposed to address these issues, making technology more inclusive and user-friendly for all.
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Accessible and Inclusive ICTs for persons with Disability Basanta Shah Bini Shrestha Deepan Singh Siddhartha Sapkota
Visually Impaired The definition of vision impairment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a visually impaired person's eyesight cannot be corrected to a normal level . It may be said that visual impairment is the functional limitation of the eye or eyes or the vision system
Problem Domain for Visually Impaired people Navigation Reading Using touch screens Lack of interactive websites GUI issue Visual decision for shopping ( Garments, Groceries, Date of expiries of medicines or edible )
Reading Braille Lippie is used for reading Developed in 1824 by Louis Braille Not every documents/news paper/ journals are encoded in Braille Under developed countries don t have access to institution for providing education for Braille lippie OCR in phones does required smart phone with touch screens and are very hard to be used by visually impaired people and required constant internet connection to work
Typing Touch familiar Hard to navigate Takes a lot of time for performing small task
Navigation Traditional stick used for navigation Hard to scan crowded area Couldn't t identify gutter holes and downstairs
Solution A smart solution to address problem of reading, typing and navigation Must be cheap enough for each and every visually impaired people Should be available in variety of smart phones
Reading Software Hardware Read out loud the text extracted Take and snap shot Convert image into text using OCR offline Receive latest image from server Connect to the server Select mode of operation Send it to the server with unique identifier ( date of modification) Connect to the server
Typing Hardware Software Read the character typed loud Map each finger and set high and low to user desired fingure Convert it into alphabet Map the value with predefined value Save data as JSON format Select Mode of operation Push data to the software Retrieve data from server
Software Navigation Hardware Read it loud in measuring unit Read value of distance Calculate distance between user and obstacle using Ultrasonic sonar sensor Select Mode Send it to the server Connect to the server
