E-Business Access for Blinds: A Semantic Approach

Efforts have been made on voice enabled navigation, but to use the voice enabled systems more effectively, we need to exploit the marvels of web semantics properly, especially with the aspect of blind. Voice enabled applications have already been introduced by several companies but "Voice Enabled Browsing" is an area yet to be discovered. In this study we focused on the use of voice browsing for disabled; with special emphasis on the blind. We also considered the limitations of the existing web and examined the ways to extract the information from the web pages containing large amount of visual content. Global expansion in e- business volume will open new opportunities for the blind to be a part of e-business; either as a consumer or entrepreneur. The main impetus behind this effort is to enhance the access of existing web by exploring the possibilities to make it more easily accessible through voice; exclusively for the blind.