EZLiving: Shopping Application for Visually Challenged

Abstract

This research introduces EZLiving, a web-based solution that is particularly designed to address the daily challenges faced by visually impaired individuals when engaging in online shopping activities. These challenges range from logging into the system to searching for desired products, browsing products, reviewing products, adding items to the cart, managing cart items, and making payments. The difficulties arise primarily due to colour blindness and low vision. We are providing solutions to these challenges through the implementation of voice instructions integrated throughout the web application, which we developed using voice synthesis also known as text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition also known as speech-to-text mechanisms. EZLiving aims to provide visually impaired users with a convenient shopping experience by leveraging this modern technology to overcome obstacles.