Sarah Soyeon Oh, Kyoung‐A Kim, Minsu Kim, Jaeuk Oh et al.
BACKGROUND: Numerous instruments are designed to measure digital literacy among the general population. However, few studies have assessed the use and appropriateness of these measurements for older populations. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims to identify and critically appraise studies asses...
zahrah dafer alqahtani, Amjad H Wyne
OBJECTIVE: To determine the caries experience and oral hygiene status in blind, deaf and mentally retarded female children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHOD: All (N=218) the 6-7-year-old and 11-12-year-old blind, deaf and mentally retarded female children registered with the Presidency of Girls' Educa...
Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Eistiak Ahamed, A. B. M. A. Kaish
Visually impaired students (VIS) are unable to get visual information, which has made their learning process complicated. This paper discusses the overall situation of VIS in Bangladesh and identifies major challenges that they are facing in getting education. The Braille system is followed to educa...
Mrinal Kanti Baowaly, Moniruzzaman Bhuiyan
The Web is a progressively more important resource in many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, healthcare, recreation, and more. It is essential that the web be accessible to people with equal access and equal opportunity to all also with disabilities. An accessible web can...
Lutfun Nahar, Riza Sulaiman, Azizah Jaafar
Due to the lack of affordable assistive tools for learning mathematics, blind students in Bangladesh still use outdated learning tools like Tailor Frame. Therefore, demand for a low-cost technological tool is there that will help the blind students to learn math braille and calculate numbers more ea...
Shahed Anzarus Sabab, Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee
In the real world, books and documents are the sources of knowledge. But this knowledge is only bounded to people with clear vision. Our society includes a group of people who does not have a clear vision or people who are blind. For this group, world is like a black illusion. The shape and structur...
Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Mostofa Monsur, Syed Masum Billah
Sighted programmers often rely on visual cues (e.g., syntax coloring, keyword highlighting, code formatting) to perform common coding activities in text-based languages (e.g., Python). Unfortunately, blind and low-vision (BLV) programmers hardly benefit from these visual cues because they interact w...
Philip Strain, A. Dawn Shaikh, Richard Boardman
This paper discusses some of the methodological challenges that can be encountered when usability testing with visually impaired users. These include (1) the need for customized test environments, (2) the potential for audio interference between screen reader output and the moderator to participant ...
Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Riza Sulaiman
The introduction and evaluation of Braille-learning tools are not receiving attention despite the need for talking books and Braille reading materials. As the Braille learning tools are very limited in developing countries, newly introduced tools and technological solutions need to be properly evalu...
Falgoon Sen Apu, Fatema Islam Joyti, Md Ala Uddin Anik, Md Wasi Uddin Zobayer et al.
Braille is the main way to teach blind people. Blind readers can read using this Braille system with the help of their fingers. Much work has been done to modernize the blind education system, but it is still very expensive and complex. This paper proposed a cost-effective and user-friendly braille ...
Lutfun Nahar, Riza Sulaiman, Azizah Jaafar
Android platform-based educational software for visually impaired students (VIS) are widely available, but very few of them are in Bangla. Due to the lack of low-cost Bangla Braille-based technologies, VIS depends on the traditional slate and stylus to learn Braille. This study proposes a Braille-ba...
Md. Nasfikur R. Khan, Mohammad N. H. Pias, Kaiser Habib, Md. Abir Hossain et al.
There are different kinds of technologies being used to improve the communication opportunity of children with verbal challenges. Portable communication devices provide the facility to the users for customizing applications according their needs. Besides, the usability and costing range of these por...
Shakirat O. Raji, Murni Mahmud, Adamu Abubakr
Hospital Websites could be used as a medium to enhance hospital services to the public through better design and intense delivery of content. These Websites are good sources of reference for general information about the hospital and thus can be used to empower users to learn about health, diseases ...
Saifullah Mahfuz, Md. Nazmus Sakib, Matt M. Husain
This article problematizes the status of the visually impaired students in Bangladesh under the COVID-19 global pandemic. We inquire into two inter-related questions: (a) what level and quality of technological access does a visually impaired student have in their higher education institution (e.g. ...
Md. Sadad Mahamud, Md. Saniat Rahman Zishan
Hearing influence is one of the basic needs of our daily lives. By good communication skill, we can promote better health, greater educational attainment and many more. Lots of confusions may arise when a hearing impaired person try to communicate with a general person. In this paper an assistive de...