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Web Access for Visually ChallengedDhrumil Shah1 Vikas Pandey2 Prachi Gharge3 Taufique Shaikh4

 Abstract  —  The system allows visually challenged people to

access this web portal to access and navigate the web through

this portal. Since visually challenged people cannot see the

website, we here use a smart text to speech system integrated

into the web portal to help the blind to navigate by justhearing to the speech on web. There is an audio system that

speaks out all available navigation options to the visually

challenged person and then instructs him/her to press

respective keys on the keyboard (There is a specially

designed keyboard for the people who can’t see, through

which they can press desired keys). The system allows the

 blind person to login into their account and after that provides

a stepwise instruction on how to operate, use and which keys

to press to enter sections. Later it calls out different sub

sections. Past that the system reads out desired news, plays,

and songs for the person as desired using the audio navigation

menu. The person may thus easily navigate through the portal

with ease. For upgrade purpose, we also have an admin loginsection in the web portal. Here admin may add, modify the

news and other section data in the system. This system helps

the visually challenged users to easily navigate through thesystem

Key words:  Web Access, Web site

I.  I NTRODUCTION 

Web accessibility is nothing but removing walls that prevent

interaction, or access to websites, by people with disabilities.

When sites are correctly designed, coded, designed,

developed and edited, all users have equal access to

information and functionality. For example, when a site iscoded with proper meaningful HTML codes and tags, with

textual equivalents provided for images and with the

hypertext links, this helps blind users using text-to-speech

software and/or text-to-Braille hardware.

II.  LITERATURE SURVEY 

 A.   Existing System:

1)  The needs of people with low vision problems vary

depending on their eye-vision. Therefore, websites need

to be user friendly and also good in design so that they

can listen to the website and get connected with multiple

resources.2)  For instance, many can read standard size text while

some people need big texts and use magnifiers to assist

them in enlarging the text. Highly contrasting colours

helps many blind users while others can only read fewalphabets that are bright in black background.

3)  A blind person could not access web or internet unless

they were read loudly and were also translated into

 braille.

4)  The handicapped population, therefore, must gain an

understanding of technology so that they can contributeto the development strategies and propose solutions

which will allow this population to use technology

effectively.

 B.   Proposed System:

1)  To make visually handicapped students and their sighted

 peers aware of the problems blind and visually

challenged people have accessing websites.

2)  To educate present and future web techs and designers

regarding the needs of people who don’t have abilities. 

3)  To design a website that is easy for the blind users to

access and visually impaired by creating an accessible

website entitled "Homework Helper."

III.  SCREEN READERS 

Users who are blind usually use a screen reader for most

computing activities. This is a piece of software that shows

us what is on the screen and sends information to a speech

recorder to be spoken or to a braille display. The screen reader

 provides better screen interface. Brain of any computer is the

screen reader, a more detailed explanation, list of products,

see the Screen Readers category in AFB's product database.

If the user is indeed using a screen reader, then that

 person may use a mainstream browser  — most likely one of

the most commonly used browsers you find visiting your site

in general like Google Chrome or Internet Explorer. Blindusers will be benefitted from continuous support from these

 browsers as much as will other users.

There is very useful, more detailed information

about designing for blind or visually impaired users are

available at various websites and you can get a free home eye

test on this site, and some other information too.

IV.  ADVANTAGES 

1)  Visually challenged people can easily access internet

with the help of web portal.

2)  User can listen to his desired songs, plays and news.

3) 

System reads out news and other events.

V.  DISADVANTAGES  

1)  To use this system, User must have some knowledge of

computer.

2)  User should know the position of the key on the

keyboard.

3)  User must clearly listen to the speech made by the

system.

VI.  APPLICATION 

 

This system can be used by many visually challenged people for entertainment purpose.

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VII.  FUTURE SCOPE 

1)  There can be a module where system will instruct the

 position of keys on the keyboard.

2)  There can be a repeat option if user had not listened to

the speech clearly he can listen the speech again by

 pressing keys for repeat option.

VIII. 

CONCLUSION Although our country and the world as a whole have made

drastic strides has improved by providing access to blind

users, there is still room for improvement. In the upcoming

age of technology, operating computers, the Internet and

other technologies has been improved a lot. If we all consider

this people in our teaching practices and in designing web pages, accessing web will improve that much more.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

We are pleased to present “Web Access for Visually

Challenged” project and we take this opportunity to show our

 profound gratitude to all those people who helped us in

completion of this project.

We thank our college giving us excellent facilities

that helped us to complete and present this project. We would

also like to thank the staff members and lab assistants for

 permitting us to use computers in the lab as and when

required.

We express our deepest gratitude towards our

 project guide for her valuable and timely advice during thevarious phases in our project. We would also like to thank her

for providing us with all proper facilities and support as the

 project co-coordinator. We would like to thank her for

support, patience and faith in our capabilities and for giving

us flexibility in terms of working and reporting schedules.We would like to thank all our friends for their

smiles and friendship making the college life enjoyable and

memorable and family members who always stood beside us

and provided the utmost important moral support. Finally we

would like to thank everyone who has helped us directly or

indirectly in our project.

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