Being able to read text, find out iinformation and know about the latest news has always been a challenge for those who cannot access the printed version, such as the blind and visually-impaired. The advent of internet and advancements in User Interfaces (UIs) as well as in assistive technologies make this challenge increasingly feasible. A lot of effort has gone into making software applications and web pages more accessible to the blind and visually impaired students. There are few Windows based stand-alone text-to-speech screen reader applications that provide application-specific speech output through script files written specifically for them. All these screen readers usually cover widely speaking languages. Albanian language is not covered with no one of the screen readers.
In this paper a new user-interface model for albanian speaking blind and visually impared is presented. The new model is built up on the research results an testing with different screen readers and different groups of blind and visually impaired albanian speaking students, the screen readers analysis, text-to-speach technologies analysis, specially developed text-to-speach generator from albanian texts, the mathematical analysis done on general albanian texts as well as the basic principles of lexicons creations. It has been tested to blind and visually impaired science students. The new user-interface model is a very useful tool for albanian-speaking blind and visually impaired science students giving them an equal studying opportunities as the other students.
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