KITES Softwares

Cochin

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Introduction:

Today lots of daily activities such as education, shopping and mailing are done
through the Internet. By rapid growth of the Internet and the easy access to it, a great deal
of private and personal information is available on the web. On the other hands, nowadays
the Internet in not only for special groups of people, but peoples from any age and
different groups are using the Internet. There are many websites for children on the
Internet and the children using the Internet for various activities such as entertaining,
educating, etc. The elderly people communicate and chat with their children and relative
using the Internet. In addition to regular peoples, the disabled peoples are also using the
Internet.
The Blind Browser software allows the blind in a easy way of accessing the
Internet . Blind can hear different categories(categories may include
SPORTS,NEWS,EDUCATION,etc) provided by the software in different stages. The Blind
can access the browser by pressing the numbers according to their will representing
different categories . According to the selection of the category suitable URL is selected
which are already stored in the database. The selected URL is sent to the actual
browser(like Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer). The output of the selected URL can be
heard by the blind.

Existing System:

In the current scenario it is not possible for the blind to have access to the internet.
The reason for this is that, other than their disability no software has been developed that
can help them in accessing the internet ,which was considered impossible until now due to
the high complexity in programming and the large amount of data that has to be handled

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during this scenario . All of these difficulties made it impossible for the blind to access the
internet and also with their limitations. All of these difficulties were overcome by our
proposed system.

Proposed System:

The main objective of the proposed system is to make internet accessible to the
blind by overcoming all the difficulties that we witnessed before. In our proposed system
“Blind Browser” we have made it possible for the blind to easily access the internet without
any difficulty. Here we have created a software that integrates GUI with efficiency. We just
have to install the software just like any other programme in the machine before we can
start working with it. Once installed an icon will appear on the desktop which can be
activated like any other software or we can make it appear by just turning on the machine.
The main advantage is the ease with which this software can be accessed by the blind.
The other main attractive feature here is that all the URL will be stored in a database as a
matter of which the user will not have to remember them which has proven rather difficult.

There are mainly two users of the software . They are the administrator and the
blind user. It is the responsibility of the administrator to add the different categories
required by the client. The blind person is the one who uses this software so as to access
the internet.

Modules Of The Project :

The project is basically divided into four modules. They are

1. Administrator Module

The role of the Administrator is to manage different categories in different

stages. For Example In stage 1 there is category called Sports. If the client select the
sports category then in the second stage different sports items should tell to the blind like
cricket,football,hockey etc. These kind of categories adds by the administrator in different
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stages.

2. Blind User

Blind understands the things by hearing. In this software they are allowed to hear
different categories provided by the software. According to the need of the user they
selects different categories. and getting suitable web pages and hearing the content of the
web page.

3. TTS

T TS is using hear for converting the Text content to speech. This is

implementing by the pure java code.

4. Key Logger

Key Logger is using here for understanding the key pressed by the blind user.
According to the pressing of the number key the user traversing in the software.

Software Specification :

Front end : J2EE

Back end : My Sql

Operating System : Windows/ Linux

IDE : Net Beans

Hardware Specification :

Procesor : Pentium IV
System Bus : 32 BIT

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RAM : 512 MB
HDD : 40 GB
Display : SVGA Color
Key Board : Windows/Linux Compatible

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