E-mail management system for blind people in spanish language

Abstract

Nowadays, due to advances in the media, in particular after the emergence of the Internet, millions of people are communicating through e-mail. Unfortunately, this type of communication is not accessible to blind people. Currently these people need assistance to be able to access their email in reading and writing. This paper presents an application for the reading, writing and sending of emails using voice as a mean of communication between the computer and the person, in the Spanish language. This application was evaluated by five people with visual impairment at the special education school "Baltazar Maldonado Olvera", in the community of San Andrés, in the municipality of Tzompantepec, Tlaxcala, México; obtaining very good results.