ANDROID AUDIOBOOK APP FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

• Main Author: Thajeb, Stephen
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/66645
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In this era of technology, information accessing is mostly done digitally for effectiveness and efficiency, but that is not always the case for Blind or Visually Impaired (BVI). For people categorized as BVI, accessing digital information can be done via pre-recorded audio or screen reader. For Andorid user, there is a built-in screen reader called Talkback. To be able to integrate with Talkback, an application need to have a high accessibility. Meanwhile to easily serve textual information to BVI, one can perform text to speech transformation and serve the information as an audiobook. This paper mainly discuss about how author develop an high accessible Android audiobook app using the Waterfall software development lifecycle model starting from requirement engineering, software design, software development, user testing, and evaluation. The Android app itself is built with MVVM design pattern, referencing to Google’s Android Architecture Component.