A Virtual Classroom for Special Need Students

Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) are online platforms which are used for teaching and learning. There are many VLEs available for the students in the market that are helpful for them to study and learn online. These VLEs make use of latest technologies and features like accessing the course material, submitting the assignments, attending live lectures, viewing recorded lectures etc. Unfortunately, for Visually Impaired (VI) students these environments do not possess alternative features like voice feedback and voice commands that would help them operate the application, disabling VIs to make benefit from such applications. So, to eradicate this gap this paper proposes a solution that provides enhancements to accessibility issues, content and navigation that confront the visually impaired, in its implemented mobile-based application. The solution proposed is expected to assist the VIs and contribute to the society. Only the key features for assisting the VIs are presented in this paper. The system implemented different modules for class management and accessibility. It provides text-to-speech integration and voice command controls.