In the age of internet, demand visually impaired groups to perceive graphic images through tactile sense is becoming stronger and stronger. Image object recognition a basic task in field computer vision. recent years, deep neural networks have promoted development image recognition. However, existing methods generally problems details’ loss edge refinement, which cannot improve accuracy rate fo...

Internet accessibility for the visually impaired community is still an open issue. Guidelines have been issued by the W3C consortium to help web designers to improve web site accessibility. However several studies show that a significant percentage of web page creators are still ignoring the proposed guidelines. Several tools are now available, general purpose, or web specific, to help visually...

This paper is influenced by all web users that have a visual impairment disability and will focus on the implications of users with visual disabilities whilst using the web, specifically when concerned with using ecommerce websites. A significant amount of research will be conducted on the current usability guidelines and the problems that users with visual disabilities face whilst using the we...

OBJECTIVE To raise pharmacist awareness about the needs and concerns of our patients with visual impairment and to review useful strategies to foster medication adherence. SUMMARY As patient-centered pharmacists, we need to understand the challenges faced by our patients with low vision and tailor pharmaceutical care to best fit their needs. Evidence-based best practices in labeling and writt...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Hardware and Software Co-Design of Arabic Alphabets Recognition Platform for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons Brahim Sabir, Yassine Khazri, Mohamed Moussetad and Bouzekri Touri LIMAT Lab, Physics Department, Faculty of Science Ben M'Sik Physics Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco LAPSTICE Lab, Language and Communication Department, Faculty of Science Ben M'Sik Physics Casablanca...

Indices of behavioral competence (activities of daily living [ADLs], instrumental activities of daily living [IADLs], use of outdoor resources, leisure activity level) as well as emotional adaptation (subjective well-being, future orientation) were used to investigate the psychosocial consequences of age-related vision impairment in a threefold manner: (a) comparison of visually impaired and un...

Access to, and doing mathematics, is one of the biggest obstacles for blind students in school and at the university. Our special thematic session (STS) will present new approaches to offering blind students better access to mat, to provide new tools for doing math and offer support tools to math teachers to help them offer better instruction to blind students. In the remainder of this short pa...