Visually impaired students and professionals have been experiencing many challenges in their everyday educational and professional life for years. As technology advanced, more and more ICT solutions have been developed with the idea of making a number of activities easier for visually impaired. These solutions have been proven applicable in many different areas, including educational and professional activities. In this paper, an overview of the role of ICT and many possible software solutions in making everyday life of visually impaired students and professionals easier is given along with the conclusion about effectiveness of these solutions and possible future trends in the development of similar ICT innovations.
This work has been presented in Proceedings of the 11th Multidisciplinary Academic Conference in Prague 2017, Czech Republic.