Voice based web services – An assistive technology for visually impaired persons

Assistive technologies for the blind: key competences for health promotion under the Galway Consensus

“…Other studies have built technologies to assist blind people in performing daily activities, stimulating autonomy in personal care and consequent behavior change (14,(16)(17) .…”

“…With the Implementation competence, ethical strategies are sought to be carried out in an effective, efficient and culturally sensitive way, to ensure a greater number of possible improvements in health, including human resources and material management (6,21) . In this aspect, the technologies worked on blind participants obtained positive results regarding their implementation, according to the perception of users and of health promoter professionals (9,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(16)(17) .…”

“…The Extended Mark up Language voice service technology developed to help visually impaired, blind or other disabled people to access local, regional or national newspapers through a key phone showed that this technology was successfully implemented (17) .…”

“…To analyze a project of an interactive voice system using the voice service technology named Extended Mark up Language (17) Assistive technology for web voice service.…”

Communication and Empowerment: A Place for Rich and Multiple Media?

“…Multimedia innovations provide some new opportunities for students with diverse needs who have restricted ability to work with text and printed matter (Hegarty 2004). For example, voice‐based web services have received favourable comment from the visually impaired community (Modukuri & Morris 2004). Renblad (2000) recounts the positive effects of video‐telephony on the social networks of 24 people with intellectual disability.…”