Enabling visually impaired people to use the Internet

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zajicek
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Reading Assistance for Visually Impaired People Using TTL Serial Camera With Voice

2018 ◽  
pp. 170-180
Author(s):  
Sruthi M. ◽  
Rajasekaran R.
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Internet of things is where all the things are connected to the internet and communicate with each other. There are many applications of the IoT in various fields such as healthcare, agriculture, industries, and logistics, and even for empowering people with disabilities. There are many previous work for the blind people using IoT in finding the obstacles many navigation applications have been developed. In this chapter, a system is proposed to assist blind people in reading books. This method is based on capturing the text book pages as an image and processing them into text with speech as an output.

Techno-Social Systems in the Internet as a Tool for Social Adaptation of the Visually Impaired

2019 ◽  
pp. 295-319
Author(s):  
Gennadi B. Pronchev ◽  
Inna V. Goncharova ◽  
Nadezhda G. Proncheva ◽  
Danila N. Monakhov ◽  
Irina V. Vasenina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

The chapter deals with issues related to social adaptation of the visually impaired in techno-social systems of the internet. The current legislation providing access for visually impaired people to such techno-social systems is analyzed, as well as the way the legislation is implemented. Traditions and innovations in the field of accessibility of techno-social systems for visually impaired people in Russia are discussed. The opportunities of the electronic banking system of the European Union and Great Britain for the visually impaired are analyzed.

The accessibility and usage of smartphones by Arab-speaking visually impaired people

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najd Al-Mouh ◽  
Hend S. Al-Khalifa
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Arabic Speaking

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate accessibility and usage of mobile smartphones by Arabic-speaking visually impaired people in Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 104 participants with visual impairments were interviewed about their use of mobile phones with the following questions: What is the most commonly used mobile phone? What is the popular domain for which they use mobile phones? What are their favorite applications? What accessibility challenges do they usually face while using mobile phones? How often do they use the Internet via mobile phones and what are the reasons behind that? Findings – This research is the first study with such magnitude to investigate smartphone usage by Arabic-speaking visually impaired people. The survey has revealed that Arabic-speaking visually impaired people utilize mobile phones in different ways and strategies. Getting assistance in performing daily tasks and navigating independently are two of the most common uses for mobile phones. Originality/value – Based on the findings, the authors are going to propose some guidelines to developers to improve smartphone accessibility, application design and Internet usage to improve accessibility for visually impaired people.

scholarly journals Smart Assistive Shoes with Internet of Things Implementation for Visually Impaired People

2021 ◽  
Vol 2107 (1) ◽  
pp. 012030
Author(s):  
F S Kamaruddin ◽  
N H Mahmood ◽  
M A Abdul Razak ◽  
N A Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Obstacle Detection ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Transfer Data ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Project Smart

Abstract Visually impaired people usually have a lot of difficulties involved in interacting with their environment. Physical movement is a major challenge for them, because it can be tricky to make a distinction about where they are and how they can move from one place to another. In this project, smart assistive shoes with Internet of Things (IoT) implementation is designed. These shoes are equipped with ultrasonic sensors and vibration motors that can warn users about obstacles. Next, the IoT system is implemented using Adafruit IO and If This, Then That (IFTTT) to transfer data between Google Assistant and buzzer for shoes position finder purposes. NodeMCU allows the buzzer on shoes to be controlled by the Internet using its WiFi module which is connected to the mobile phone hotspots. As a result, shoes with an obstacle detection system which can detect obstacles within 20 cm distance and shoes position finder using Google Assistant are designed. In conclusion, hopefully these shoes will become one of the alternatives to aid the independent movement of the visually impaired people in the future.

scholarly journals Image Captioning Using Motion-CNN with Object Detection

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1270
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Iwamura ◽  
Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara ◽  
Alessandro Moro ◽  
Atsushi Yamashita ◽  
Hajime Asama
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Image Features ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Image Captioning ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Motion Features ◽  
Image Caption Generation ◽  
Image Caption

Automatic image captioning has many important applications, such as the depiction of visual contents for visually impaired people or the indexing of images on the internet. Recently, deep learning-based image captioning models have been researched extensively. For caption generation, they learn the relation between image features and words included in the captions. However, image features might not be relevant for certain words such as verbs. Therefore, our earlier reported method included the use of motion features along with image features for generating captions including verbs. However, all the motion features were used. Since not all motion features contributed positively to the captioning process, unnecessary motion features decreased the captioning accuracy. As described herein, we use experiments with motion features for thorough analysis of the reasons for the decline in accuracy. We propose a novel, end-to-end trainable method for image caption generation that alleviates the decreased accuracy of caption generation. Our proposed model was evaluated using three datasets: MSR-VTT2016-Image, MSCOCO, and several copyright-free images. Results demonstrate that our proposed method improves caption generation performance.

scholarly journals Implementation of Sound Workspace Awareness to Visually Impaired Users in Synchronous and Cooperative Web Applications

RENOTE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Prestes Machado ◽  
Débora Conforto ◽  
Eliseo Reategui ◽  
Lucila Santarosa
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Validation ◽  
Screen Readers ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Workspace Awareness

This paper discusses the implementation of accessibility features for visually impaired people in synchronous and cooperative systems on the Internet. Based on the sociocultural scenario of affirmation of difference and on the contexts of cooperation established by Web 2.0, we discuss the application of Sound Workspace Awareness in Groupware tools through Auditory Icons, Earcons, synthesized speech, Live Region, and Screen Readers in a Web chat system. The article presents a qualitative experimental research with internal data validation and an exploratory goal. The process of data collection and analysis was performed using protocols applied with five real users. The results of the experiments showed a satisfactory adherence of these technologies in the construction of Sound Workspace Awareness to screen reader users.

Application of IoT Based Stick for Visually Impaired People in CVIS System

CICTP 2020 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Muhammad ◽  
Qizhou Hu ◽  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
Yikai Wu ◽  
Muhammad Ahtsham
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

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