Universal Journal of Educational Research 7(10B): 16-20, 2019 http://www.hrpub.org
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2019.071804
A Proposed Method to Design Specialized Web Pages for
Visually Impaired and Blind Students
Yasar Abdul Razak Al-Jaleeli
*
, Anis F. Galimyanov
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technologies, Kazan Federal University, Russia
Received July 12, 2019; Revised September 20, 2019; Accepted September 27, 2019
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Abstract Currently, we study, work and build social
relationships and economies by employing information
technology. However there is a question for people who are
interested in supporting and developing education for
people with disabilities: What is the impact of information
technology on the lives of visually impaired people? The
answer to this question has been raised to varying degrees
by countries and communities that pay close attention to
disability issues and give them considerable attention.
Interest from societies and countries is, of course,
conditioned by political, economic, and social factors that
can make the needs of people with a type of welfare for
some governments and communities. In this paper, a new
method is introduced for developing websites for visually
impaired people by employing Braille codes and the
HTML language to provide audio material via the Internet
following the use of specialized web pages with
pre-selected curricula to support the training of visually
impaired people.
Keywords Braille, Low Vision, Specialty Web,
Visually Impaired
1. Introduction
Technology is an essential factor in altering people's
lives and increasing their well-being. Modern technologies
are often designed for healthy people, while the number of
people with disabilities and especially visually impaired
people is significant. 4.5% of children belong to the
category of people with disabilities throughout the world
[2]. In France, approximately 100,000 people have or will
have vision problems out of 750,000 annual births [3].
With such a large number of people with disabilities,
researchers have presented several methods to facilitate
teaching visually impaired people to reduce the differences
between the educational opportunities offered to visually
impaired people and their peers, the most important of
which is the voice. However, this method cannot be
employed in noisy public places and also to evaluate the
blind online, as most speech recognition applications are
not accurate enough and require a quiet place to insert text
[1] [3].
In the field of education, blind or visually impaired
students should have the same access as sighted students to
all standards, curricula, and education to achieve the
necessary levels of literacy and also high academic
expectations and to become productive citizens. [3]
This paper provides a method for developing
educational websites to provide more educational
opportunities for visually impaired students by utilizing the
Internet to produce general or academic sounds to facilitate
the learning process and research concepts to find
techniques for supporting the education of impaired people
through website development, which provides links to an
electronic audio library containing books, articles, lectures
and other items in audio format based on their age. This
library is processed by visually impaired people trained in
practicing Braille [5] [6] [7].
2. Proposed E-Learning Method for
Visually Impaired and Blind
Students
E-learning contributes to enhancing the quality of life of
students [8]. Despite many attempts to develop e-learning
platforms, many of these platforms are not practical for
people with impaired vision; it is important to discuss the
problems of applying e-learning technologies faced by
students with impaired eyesight and also to understand that
many of these platforms which are ineffective for people
with impaired sight [9].
The Braille e-mail possesses a frequency of errors, and
this issue leads to their limited application in an Internet
search engine to obtain the required results, or conduct
CITE THIS PAPER
[1] Yasar Abdul Razak Al-Jaleeli , Anis F. Galimyanov , "A Proposed Method to Design Specialized Web Pages for Visually Impaired
and Blind Students," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 7, No. 10B, pp. 16 - 20, 2019. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2019.071804.