Accessible portal for school-age blind, as a tool to improve social skills

Abstract

This paper presents the process of developing an Accessible Portal for school students with partial or total blindness, giving an opportunity to have as support a site where they will find resources of all kinds, to help improve their social skills and also serve to strengthen and increase in a playful way the knowledge they develop in school. An observation card was used which was validated and applied with the support of the teacher of blind children, after which the web portal was developed with patterns of accessibility which allows the blind user through the use of the application NVDA, which converts objects accessible to voice, so that they can be understood by users. After each of the students could use the accessible portal for a while, the observation card was applied again and statistically there was an improvement process in their knowledge and their ability to socialize with their peers and people close to them. Finally, the conclusions, limitations and future work of the research are described.