Accessibility of internet services for visually impaired persons by means of Text-To-Speech technology. Benefits-costs perspective

Popescu Florin Gabriel

Impact of Socio-economic and Technological Transformations at National, European and International Level (ISETT), 2015, vol. 8

Abstract: Access of the persons with disabilities to services provided by the Internet is an important aspect of everyday existence of these people with special needs. In the particular case of blind people, the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities for an independent living, the fundamental challenge for any disabled person. In this paper we present some aspects of Internet accessibility via Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology, from a benefits-costs perspective. This assistive technology transforms into speech the texts gathered from accessing of web and email services of the Internet.

Keywords: accessibility; Internet services; web; e-mail; visually impaired; text-to-speech; assistive technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C88 C99 L63 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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