Author 1 :- Brijlal ( Research Scholar )
Author 2 :- Dr. Poonam Gupta ( Assistant Professor )
This paper primarily deals with inadequacies in learning environments and services for visually impaired students using ICT in an educational context. It is designed to identify, elucidate problems and raise issues concerning visually challenged students in the course of their post-secondary education through e- learning in Delhi. It considers and illustrates the experience of these students in pursuing higher education through responses in a structured questionnaire. It gives recommendations for designing in e-learning systems to make the education more inclusive. The study confirms that e-learning is a significant opportunity for such students but there are umpteen issues which still need to be addressed as the problems of availability, accessibility in holistic way (technological and pedagogical), efficacy and utility of the system etc. The aspect that is not intricate is the affordability of E-Systems but availability of online e-learning facilities, accessibility of websites, availability of books in all formats, description of pictures along with images, good screen readers for all languages and affordability of original software are some of the problems areas that continue to bother these students. The paper provides some operational suggestions to overcome the same.
