1. Accessible and Inclusive ICTs for persons with Disability
Basanta Shah
Bini Shrestha
Deepan Singh
Siddhartha Sapkota

2. Visually Impaired
The definition of vision impairment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a visually impaired person's eyesight cannot be corrected to a “normal level”. It may be said that visual impairment is the functional limitation of the eye or eyes or the vision system

3. Problem Domain for Visually Impaired people
Navigation
Reading
Using touch screens
Lack of interactive websites
GUI issue
Visual decision for shopping ( Garments, Groceries, Date of expiries of medicines or edible )

4. Reading Braille Lippie is used for reading
Developed in 1824 by Louis Braille
Not every documents/news paper/ journals are encoded in Braille
Under developed countries don’t have access to institution for providing education for Braille lippie
OCR in phones does required smart phone with touch screens and are very hard to be used by visually impaired people and required constant internet connection to work

5. Typing Touch familiar Hard to navigate
Takes a lot of time for performing small task

6. Navigation Traditional stick used for navigation
Hard to scan crowded area
Couldn't’t identify gutter holes and downstairs

7. Solution
A smart solution to address problem of reading, typing and navigation
Must be cheap enough for each and every visually impaired people
Should be available in variety of smart phones

8. Reading Software Hardware Take and snap shot Connect to the server
Read out loud the text extracted
Convert image into text using OCR offline
Receive latest image from server
Select mode of operation
Connect to the server
Take and snap shot
Connect to the server
Send it to the server with unique identifier ( date of modification)

9. Typing Hardware Software
Map each finger and set high and low to user desired fingure
Save data as JSON format
Push data to the software
Read the character typed loud
Convert it into alphabet
Map the value with predefined value
Select Mode of operation
Retrieve data from server

10. Read it loud in measuring unit
Software
Navigation
Read it loud in measuring unit
Read value of distance
Select Mode
Connect to the server
Hardware
Calculate distance between user and obstacle using Ultrasonic sonar sensor
Send it to the server

11. Thank you