Educational Online Games for Visually Impaired Children

There are now a set of free online educational games for visually-impaired children available from the VIP Games Zone site  www.vipgameszone.com

The three games: 

"Typer" to help players learn to type on a QWERTY keyboard

"ABC" to help players learn the English alphabet, and

"Numbers Stuff" for players to learn basic maths

All games have the same interface, so that children do not need to learn a new interface for each program, and have an audible menu and "speak" actions so users do not have to use a screen reader.

Features such as main menu items and tasks are displayed on screen to allow sighted family and friends to help visually impaired children operate the games initially.

The developers of the games plan to create mailing lists for parents to discuss programs and future projects and they hope that this will help to improve their programmes for blind children.