Assistive technologies for blind people are showing a fast growth, providing useful tools to
support daily activities and to improve social inclusion. Most of these technologies are …

Like many parents, visually impaired parents (VIPs) read books with their children. However,
research on accessible reading technologies predominantly focuses on blind adults reading …

Braille is the ubiquitous method used to consume text material by the visually impaired and
blind but braille forms of most books and educational material are not available especially in …

This paper presents the modeling, implementation and testing of an experimental
microcontroller (MCU) based smart assistive system which can be used by the visually …

Visually impaired people face a number of difficulties in order to interact with the
environment because most of the information encoded is visual. Visual impaired people …

Everyday activities and tasks should be easy to perform for everyone, especially in an
educational context, in order to foster inclusivity and assure equal opportunities for all. In this …

Braille is a tactile system to represent text. A text in braille consist of several braille cell
where each cell represent an alphabet or symbol. A single cell consist of 6 individual dots …

Visually impaired people are the indispensable unit of our community. Their disabilities on
the eyesight deprive them from using the computer, learning educational software, using …

Abstract According to World Health Organization in 2017 nearly 253 million people are
visually impaired of whom 36 million are blind. Braille books involve the tactile format that …

In this paper, we describe the study conducted to investigate accessibility using EPUB 3 with
particular focus on interaction via screen reader. A multimedia and interactive EPUB 3 …