Information Accessibility and Visual Impairment

ISBN-13: 9783848406197 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str.

Hossein Hassani

Opis

This research focused on Information Accessibility regarding visually impaired students in the context of Higher Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The motivation behind the research was the early history of this region, showing huge amount of atrocities, which has left a wide community of disabled people. However, in spite of this situation, there was no evidence of research, data, and information to show the current figure of the problem area. The case study explored and assessed the current situation of information accessibility for visually impaired students within a university in the region through evaluating visual impairment rate, finding problematic areas related to information accessibility, which affects their education, and the level of awareness of information accessibility regarding visual impairment at the university.

O autorze

Hossein Hassani is a lecturer at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler since 2007. He joined UKH after nearly twenty years of experience in software industry and has been teaching different modules such as Project Management, Advanced Database, and Human Computer Interaction. He is interested in Information Accessibility and Computational Linguistic.