Assistive technology for students with vision impairments
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing recognition that people with disabilities have the same rights to participate in all aspects of community life including education. Technology plays an important role in the lives of individuals with vision impairments. It must be remembered, tho...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IIUM Press
2009
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/4429/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4429/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4429/1/Assistive_technology_for_students_with_vision_impairments.pdf |
| Summary: | Over the past decade, there has been an increasing recognition that people with disabilities have
the same rights to participate in all aspects of community life including education. Technology
plays an important role in the lives of individuals with vision impairments. It must be
remembered, though, that assistive technology is not the goal, but only the tool to help students
reach a series of lifelong solutions. These tools are part of the overall goal for the individual to
increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities, and provide access to one's environment
and the general education curriculum. Teachers in all curiculum areas encounter students with a
diversity of different educational needs. Particularly, there is a wide variety of Assistive
Technology available for students. This paper discusses the development of applications dedicated
to the blind users, with the help of reusable components. Developed software that allows visually
impaired people to access computer applications is presented. This program reads the contents of
each pages, menu or option selected by a user and associates various keys on the keyboard to
access each option. It also offers features that enable a user to customize the program according to
his or her special need. The methodology relies on component based development. For this
purpose, Microsoft text to speech is adapted, have been studied, specified and implemented. |
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