Accessible digital education for K-12 students with visual impairments and blindness

Abstract

This project aims to make education accessible to K-12 students with blindness and visual impairment to maintain their education potential in practical and physical courses. The current inclusive education in India has certain functionalities, usability, and redundancies issues in its curriculum. This project aims to provide a user-friendly and interactive way of learning for visually impaired students to get a more accessible and quality education. Most assistive technology is expensive and can not be afforded by everyone, increasing the gap in this problem area. To understand the gaps in the problem areas. The project’s brief literature review and user interviews were done to gather insights to help bridge these gaps. With the help of these insights, an XR-based solution, eye HELP, has been proposed, which provides inclusive education to the user and helps remove any dependability issues on others. It is a hand based interactive system which gives AR-based audio feedback on complex graphics and tactile maps.