Kompensowanie efektów elektronicznego wykluczenia uczniów niewidomych poprzez zastosowanie multimodalnych interfejsów użytkownika w dedykowanych aplikacjach edukacyjnych
Compensation of e-exclusion effects of blind students through applying the multimodal user interfaces into dedicated educational applications

Summary/Abstract: Despite the dynamic grow of the market of electronic educational materials, The blind students have very limited accessto such kind of content. It is caused mainly by visual characteristic of user interfaces generated for the sighted people as acombination of images, moving animations and interactivity that are inaccessible for the blind Although there are any opensourceprojects that try to solve this problem by implementing a simple dedicated games, the market of blind consumers istoo small to be worth commercial companies to produce an educational programs for them. So it seems that a good idea toreduce the exclusion of such persons is the creation of specialized solutions within the framework of scientific research and othernon-profit initiatives. In such applications, replace the media that is available only to the sighted user, such as animations,videos, graphics on the screen or interaction mechanisms through a set of alternative interfaces is necessary. These alternativeinterfaces enabled for the blind are: speech synthesize, keyboard shortcut sets, auxiliary sounds, typhlographic, interactivesound-supports touch screen, using the Braille display, etc. In this article, an example of using the method of alternativeinterfaces in educational game entitled „The encyclopedia of Geography of Europe for the blind.” Is described. The softwarehas been implemented for commercial sale. It is located in offer one of the companies spraying equipment and software forthe blind. This gave the opportunity for Collecting comments and suggestions from customers. The elements that users foundas Beloved were: the application of the simultaneous illustration of geographical questions using textual information, musicillustrations, braille graphics and auxiliary sounds. The negative comments were: not quite intuitive implementation for searchof the content in all application and Outdating of main geographical data content that necessitates the frequent creation ofnew versions of the program.

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