Title :
Developing methodologies for the presentation of graphical educational material in a non-visual form for use by people with vision impairment
Author :
Mohammadi, Nazanin ; Murray, Iain
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ., Perth, WA, Australia
Abstract :
Students with vision impairment have enormous challenges and difficulties accessing graphical educational materials. The predominant usage of graphical information in e-Learning environments makes them inaccessible for blind or vision-impaired students. This paper describes university research project on accessibility improvement in graphical presentation of educational information. Packet Tracer the network simulator used in Cisco Networking Academy is used as an experimental environment. Also an accessible model for Packet Tracer using combination of assistive technologies is presented.
Keywords :
assisted living; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; handicapped aids; vision defects; Cisco Networking Academy; Packet Tracer; accessibility improvement; assistive technologies; blind students; e-learning environments; educational information; experimental environment; graphical educational material presentation; graphical information; network simulator; university research project; vision impairment; vision-impaired students; Computers; Conferences; Educational institutions; Haptic interfaces; Materials; Speech; Accessibility; Assisstive Technologies; IPC; PTMP; Packet Tracer; Visin-Impared; user interfcae;
Conference_Titel :
Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bali
DOI :
10.1109/TALE.2013.6654464