The enhancement of assistive courseware for visually impaired learners

Advances in technology provide an opportunity for the visually-impaired (VI) people to learn and grasp new knowledge. It is as a medium that could fill a gap between VI and normal people. Even though various technologies are available to the VI people, yet there is no Assistive Courseware (AC) designed especially for the VI people. This paper aims to develop an AC for VI learners based on the guidelines that has been tested with the users in the preliminary study and later revised in this study. In the introduction part, the term of AC is discussed. The objectives of the paper are to redesign the storyboard of the earlier-designed prototype and develop a new version prototype of AC for VI. The study is based on Iterative Triangulation Methodology combined with the IntView Methodology. Summary of methodology is also discussed in this part consisting of four phases starting with specification identification until prototype development based on the revised guidelines. The final part of the paper discusses the problems gathered during preliminary testing, implementation issues and new features added in the AC in order to overcome the problems. The findings that this paper addresses include the guidelines, the storyboard and the prototype.