Use of ICT Software for Visually Impairment Learners

Abstract

The research entitled "Use of ICT for Visually Impairment Learners." The research focused on examining ICT use, analyzing the effectiveness, and finding out accessibility conditions and difficulties of ICT software for vision impairment learners. The study had used survey method research design, and the total sample population of primary data were fifty five visually impaired learners and eight teachers who teach impairment students of four schools of Kathmandu and Lalitpur district visually; names of the school are laboratory H. S. school, Adarsha Saula Yubak secondary school, Namuna Machhindra school, and Shree Prithvi Narayan secondary school. The researcher had used both primary and secondary sources of data for the analysis. The purposive homogeneous sampling procedure was followed for the selection of the sample population. Questionnaire and interview guidelines were taken as the main primary source of data where close-ended for questionnaire and open-ended for interviews were adopted. The obtained data were tabulated, analyzed, and interpreted descriptively by using statistical tools such as mean, percentage, and X2 test at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study showed that the teacher and VI students have a positive opinion in the use of ICT for teaching and learning. Students have believed that ICT software makes learning easy and accessible than before. ICT software encourages students towards learning, and it boosts the learning performance of the student; they can gain information from the internet like sight students with the help of ICT software. While Software and website development must need to follow web content accessibility guidelines provided by W3C, it has considerable influence in enhancing the accessibility of VI users in modern technology.