Web Interface for the Visually Challenged

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Web Interface for the Visually Challenged

• by Group Nine

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Project Team Members
  Mohammed Ali Ba-Ali Jagadesh Gadiyaram
Kenneth David Peterson Saad
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Presentation Outline

• Problem Definition
• Design Challenges
• Design Concepts
• Prototype
• Recommendations

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Project Definition

• Internet technologies are not designed with blind
  users in mind
• Improving the accessibility of the Internet for
  the blind utilizing existing technologies

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Design Challenges

• Interface
• Limited Access to Technology
• Integration of Systems

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Interface

• Providing information on mouse location
• Providing information on page layout
• Providing ability to scroll through pages
• Displaying page content
• Accepting input from user

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Limited Access to Technology

• No access to Touch Screens
• Unable to find good Speech to Text software

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Integration of Systems

• Java Audio Class
• have limitations and are not compatible with all
  browser types
• Text to speech software
• poor audio quality and incompatible with java and
  certain browsers

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High-level Design Layout

• Navigation of individual screen is through a
  touch screen interface
• User inputs via Speech to Text software and
  keyboard entry
• Pages content read out using Text to Speech
  software

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High-level Design Layout

• Play audible message on mouse over to provide
  feedback
• Verbally identify key web components
• Forms
• Links
• Images
• etc

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Prototype
Navigation Tools
Page Objects
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Schdedule Calendar
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Recommendations

• New browser with audio messages and utilizing our
  plug in
• convert pages on download to Blind enabled
• loads new page for interaction
• Use of Braille pad as a form of output
• Customizing output speech