Vol. 5 (05) pp. 718-726 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4170

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES FACED BY VISUAL IMPAIRED PERSONS.

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  • IT Department, Quaid-e-awamuniversity of engineering, science and technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan.
  • Computer systems engineering department, Quaid-e-awamuniversity of engineering, science and technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan.
  • Electronic Engineering department, Quaid-e-awam university of engineering, science and technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan
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Abstract

The expeditious growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for a normal person, as a part of global village, explores the world easily, efficiently, and pleasurably but persons with visual impairment face difficulties in accessing these modern communication facilities. The scope of this research was to analyze the accessibility and usability issues faced by disable persons on daily basis. These persons need a specific device or assistive technology that enables them to access computer and get their desired goals accomplished. This research was conducted on the visual impaired persons in Special Education Institute. Questionnaires and interview sessions were carefully designed and conducted to produce significant results and findings towards gaining insight their problems and the possible solutions for the best usage of ICT among the special persons. Usability test was conducted and comparison between two popular screen readers JAWS (Job access with speech) and NVDA (non-visual desktop access) for visual impaired persons is presented for analyzing the better performance.

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Quratulain Soomro, Sajida Parveen and Nadeem Naeem. (2017); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES FACED BY VISUAL IMPAIRED PERSONS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (05), 718-726, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4170

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Dr.Sajida Parveen Soomro
Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and technology.
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