Mobile based application to aid the visually challenged to learn

Abstract

Education provides knowledge and skills to the population, as well as shapes the personality of youth of a nation. Vision is fundamental to the learning process and is the primary basis upon which most traditional educational strategies are based. A visually challenged child will typically learn about the world in a different way from a child without a visual impairment. He/ She may not be able to rely on her sight to obtain information. These visually impaired students must have specialized services, books and materials in appropriate media as well as specialized equipment and technology to assure equal access to the specialized curriculum. Audio books are helpful for readers with limited/no vision and also, readers having certain physical and learning disabilities. Presently, it was found from the local blind schools that readers who are available at that time, come and read for the blind students. And the rest of the time, they just recall what they have listened to from the scribes. The students cannot learn as and when they want. They have to wait for the time when the scribes are available. We have built an innovative solution to help the visually impaired children to learn very easily by using voice navigation to choose the required  audio books. This solution will eliminate the visually challenged from relying on readers to read and learn.

Keywords: Visually-challenged, ReactNative, Voice navigation