5 July 2006
A new website is being launched which may allow visually impaired students access to previously unavailable reading material.
The service, which aims to improve the digital accessibility of secure documents to students, allows them to be viewed on a Braille reader.
Six partners from Ireland, France and Italy joined forced to create Helene, an online library which now offers users some 2,200 books in English and French, according to IST Results.
Dominique Archambault, coordinator of the Visually Impaired Children Kit for Inclusive Education (Vickie), states that poor accessibility can make studying more difficult for some children.
"This lack of access to documents makes life much harder for students like these," she said.
"It also runs counter to the idea of an inclusive European education environment."
English and Italian versions of the server interface have been developed for demonstrations to partners, although the software is designed to run on a big national server and can be installed anywhere.
Vickie is a European project which aims to raise the level of digital accessibility of information to aid social inclusion for visually impaired people.
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