3.1: Profile client in terms of ICT competence and learning goals

Table of Contents

1. Establishing client competence in use of hardware and software
2. Using learning packages
3. The UK education and training system
4. Ascertaining special needs
5. Types of special needs
   1. Motor disabilities
   2. Visual impairment
   3. Hearing impairment
   4. Special learning needs
6. Sources of careers information

Visual impairment

Many manufacturers produce software specifically to enable use by visually impaired users. It is possible for the users to hear what appears on the screen. Some software produces output in Braille.

Sometimes simple measures can be effective in facilitating use by visually impaired clients, such as:

• changing the text size on the screen

• altering the colour settings (It is usually easiest for clients with visual impairments to read black text on a white background)

• using "text only" versions where graphics are removed.

Now let's take a look at Hearing impairment ...