Use of ICT Software for Visually Impairment Learners
Date
2021
Authors
Subedi, Suman
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Publisher
Department of ICT Education
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.
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Keywords
ICT Software, Visually Impairment