Created September 3, 2024

Improving Indoor Digital Display Accessibility for Visually

Enhance indoor digital displays with screen readers and alternative formats for full accessibility.

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Touchscreen Interfaces

Navigation Switch, 15 V

Seeed Studio Grove - 4-Digit Display

Blues Notecard (Cellular)

Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 Development Kit

Story

1. System Components (Extended)
Screen Reader-Compatible Software:
Purpose: It translates visual messages into either speech or braille; therefore, any text, picture, and other forms of graphics will be made available.
Characteristics:
Speech Synthesis: Advanced TTS engines provide natural speech.
Braille Displays: This would attach to braille displays for users accustomed to reading in tactile form.
Multi-lingual Support: It would be used to view different languages.
Audio Guidance: Auditory signals will assist navigation through each interactive elements, such as buttons and menus.
Alternative Formats:
Braille Labels:
Manufacturing: Ensure Braille embossers are used to provide permanent, easily readable labels.
Location: Locate labels in close proximity to related tactile and visual information in order for users to successfully interpret it.
Tactile Graphics
Production: The use of tactile graphic tools will produce created diagrams and maps featuring raised lines and textures.
Placement: Graphics shall supplement visual information and shall be provided at a convenient height and position.
Audio Description
Content: If an image, video, or other non-text content is available, then step-by-step spoken descriptions of what is occurring shall be provided unless audio description cannot be provided due to technical limitations.
Playback through integrated speakers or through wireless headphones, loud and clear.
Display Incorporation:
Hardware
Touch Interfaces: Accommodate touchscreen capabilities so that the user can engage with the screen directly.
Buttons: All physical buttons for accessibility should be available and very accessible.
Software
Compatibility: Ensure the software will function well with existing display systems and support a variety of accessibility needs.
Updates: Regularly release feature updates, incorporating user feedback.
User Interface
Navigation on Touch Screen:
Gestures: Allow the use of swiping and tapping gestures to intuitively navigate items.
Feedback: This will give haptic feedback to confirm the actions that the user is performing.
Audio Navigation:
Instructions: Give clear, step-by-step spoken instructions on operating the display.
Feedback: Give auditory feedback on user selections and performed actions.
2. Extended System Operation
Initialization:
Installation:
Hardware Setup: Braille and tactile integration hardware setup.
Software Configuration: Set up screen reader software and alternative format setting.
Configuration:
Customization: Settings that depend on specific content and user preference.
Testing: Conduct preliminary tests on all features in the product to establish its functionality. Accessible Information: The following are the details that shall be made accessible: Means of Activation: Various means of activating, such as physical buttons and touch gestures. Automatic Detection: Include functionalities that automatically detect when there is a need for accessibility and switch it on. Screen Reader Functionality: Reading of Text: Smooth reading of text and descriptions of visual elements. User Interaction: The users should have an easy way of pausing, rewinding, or skipping forward in the content. Alternative Formats:
Braille: Refresh braille labels on every change in the display of content.
Tactile Graphics: Tactile graphics used should be accurate and to a purpose.
Audio Descriptions: These should be concise and relevant to the information displayed.
User Interaction:
Navigation:
Modes: To provide multiple modes of navigation, such as by touch, voice command, and physical control.
User Feedback: To include visual and auditory forms of feedback that will advance the user through information.
Feedback:
Types: The different types of user preference for feedback, such as audio, haptic, and visual.
Adjustments: Give the user the opportunity to make feedback adjustments based on personal needs.
3. Longer Development and Testing
Prototyping:
Software Development:
Integration: The development or modification of screen reader software would be made to suit the needs.
Feature Testing: Each of these features would need to be tested not only for compatibility but also functionality.
Alternative Formats:
Prototyping: Early versions of Braille labels, tactile graphics, and audio descriptions are created.
User Testing: Visually impaired users would have to be found to try these alternative formats in order to get feedback for the improvement of the product.
Testing:
Accessibility Testing:
Testing with visually impaired users shall be done in an effort to evaluate screen readers and other alternative formats.
Changing or modifying features based on user feedback will make these features more accessible.
Usability Testing:
Ease of Use: The ease with which the system is used, its usability indoors.
Functionality: The testing of various conditions when the system operates to exercise functionality and usage.
Iteration:
Improvement:
Feedback Integration: Feedback integration into software and hardware feature improvements.
Updates: Update the system from time to time to remove bugs and include new technologies.
Installation:
Installation: Install this system in indoor premises. Some examples include public buildings, transportation centers, and educational institutes.
Training: Train the users and the staff about how to use new accessibility features being provided.
4. Braille and Tactile Integration (Extended)
Braille Labels:
Design: Design clear, well-positioned, and readable braille labels.
Maintenance: Braille labels should be checked and updated regularly for their accuracy.
Tactile Graphics:
Design Considerations: Tactile graphics should be designed in a way that they are easily interpretable with tactiions. The tactile graphics should match the on-sight content.
User Testing: Conduct user testing to confirm whether the intended information is effectively communicated by tactile graphics.
Diagram - Extended:
Following is a conceptual diagram to integrate accessibility features in the indoor digital display system:

It is an extended framework based on participation through well-integrated technology that makes the environment accessible to let visually impaired people move around and access information independently and in a timely manner.

code

# Import necessary libraries
import pyttsx3  # Text-to-Speech conversion library
import tkinter as tk  # GUI library for the display
from tkinter import font

# Initialize TTS engine
engine = pyttsx3.init()

# Set properties for the TTS engine
engine.setProperty('rate', 150)  # Speed of speech
engine.setProperty('volume', 1)  # Volume level (0.0 to 1.0)

# Function to read text aloud
def read_text(text):
    engine.say(text)
    engine.runAndWait()

# Function to handle button click and read the display text
def on_button_click():
    display_text = text_label.cget("text")
    read_text(display_text)

# Create the main window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Accessible Digital Display")

# Set font for the display
display_font = font.Font(family="Helvetica", size=20, weight="bold")

# Create a label to display text
text_label = tk.Label(root, text="Welcome to the Accessible Information Display!", font=display_font)
text_label.pack(pady=20)

# Create a button to activate the screen reader
read_button = tk.Button(root, text="Read Aloud", command=on_button_click)
read_button.pack(pady=10)

# Main event loop
root.mainloop()

Credits

1NH21CE024 K. Deepika Reddy

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Improving Indoor Digital Display Accessibility for Visually

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Credits

1NH21CE024 K. Deepika Reddy

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