The practical side of teaching the elderly visually impaired users to use the e-mail

It is important for visually impaired persons to have the opportunity to take lessons specialized for the visually impaired and novice PC users. From this viewpoint, we designed and implemented the UKK system, which guides the typing lessons with recorded sound and synthesized speech. We also investigated the usability of the popular e-mail tools that the visually impaired can use, and the Bilingual Emacspeak Platform (BEP). As a result, we found BEP is powerful and it has a good conceptual model, but one of the problems is the lack of the manual browser that the novice user can use. We also propose the manual browser of BEP, which uses the VoiceXML browser we implemented. We expect the user will browse the manuals or access to the content using speech input and output, while they use the selfvoicing Internet tools with keyboard.