Visually Impaired Friendly E-commerce website

A website design that allows visually impaired and blind users to access and shop without any assistance. The system gives voice instruction to users and an input is requested from the user. The user is required to hover over the entire page using the curser to access different voice messages for various fields. The user provides input using the keyboard keys thus taking the process forward. The website is developed using ASP.NET with its database stored in SQL server. The website also provides recommendation based on customer selection using collaborative filtering algorithm. It is a process of filtering information or patterns using techniques involving collaboration of data gathered from different agents and data sources [1]. In this paper effectiveness and efficiency of the developed website is also calculated based on the usability study conducted with three evaluation methods tested by 4 blind individuals in which the entire system is divided into 5 tasks.