USING ROBOBRAILLE PROGRAM IN CURRICULAR AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS
USING ROBOBRAILLE PROGRAM IN CURRICULAR AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

Summary/Abstract: RoboBraille is a complex program, specifically designed for dislexo-dysgraphic people, for those with serious visual impairments and for blind people, developed by the National Centre for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments from Denmark in collaboration with Sensus ApS. The program is presented as an e-mail and web-based service and aims to achieve the automatic transformation of documents in a variety of alternative electronic formats which come to support people with reading and writing difficulties and those with visual impairments. Romania has been participating in the project destined to promote this service since 2012. This research aims to train 30 blind children from the Special Secondary School for the Visually Impaired in Bucharest, students and teachers with a serious visually impairment and blind people to use RoboBraille and to observe the degree of satisfaction after using this program for extracurricular activities for three months. As a research method, we used a satisfaction questionnaire containing a total of 10 questions with five possible answers and three open questions. We considered that the use of RoboBraille by this people is important because it proposes a variety of services: Braille services (transcription of documents in and from Braille), audio services (conversion into MP3 files and Daisy), e-book services (in which documents can be converted both in EPUB and Mobi Pocket, e-book formats), accessibility services (conversion of inaccessible documents, as image files and all types of PDF files in accessible formats and conversion of Microsoft Office documents into PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations files into RTF and web projects. What is important to note, is that the program allows the processing in Romanian language, both in terms of the written files and of the audio files.

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