Abstract
Learning Braille for visual impairments means being able to read, write and communicate with others. There exist several educational tools for learning Braille. Unfortunately, for Arabic Braille, there is a lack of interactive educational tools and what is mostly used is the traditional learning tools, such as the Braille block. Replacing those tools with some more effective and interactive e-learning tools would help to improve the learning process. This paper introduces a new educational system with a tangible and interactive interface. This system aims to help blind children to learn Arabic Braille letters and numbers using an interactive tactile Braille keypad together with the educational website. The interactive tactile Braille keypad was built using an Arduino connected with the educational website. A usability test was conducted and results showed that the system is easy to use and suggested that using the interactive Braille keypad with the educational website will improve the learning outcomes for blind children.
Highlights
In our life, literacy which is the ability to read and write is substantial in different aspects such: education and communication
In our review of literature, we found that some of the research studies focuses on presenting a Braille learning system using self-contained hardware
Various studies have conducted an incorporate environment of hardware and software to help in Braille learning process
Summary
Literacy which is the ability to read and write is substantial in different aspects such: education and communication. People who are blind or have low vision need to practice their lives normally They have the right to learn everything such: reading and writing. In 1824, at age 15 Braille presented this system to help blindness and people with poor vision in reading and writing quickly and more . A basic Braille template (cell) is a tactile configuration of six raised\embossed dots It is upright rectangular shapes made of two vertical columns made of three dot positions. Www.ijacsa.thesai.org (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol 11, No 2, 2020 both hardware and software components It integrates a specially designed Braille interactive keypad with Arduino technology, together with a web-application for learning Arabic Braille (numbers and characters) which none of the previous systems have provided
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