Desarrollo de una aplicación web para oferta y demanda de servicios de personas con algún grado de discapacidad visual.

Abstract

Currently, there are people with visual disabilities who have a certain level of difficulty in accessing web pages and applications. In addition to the difficulties that people have in acquiring services, there are pages dedicated to the supply of services, which do not accept requests for specific services by users, such as manual labor or teaching. From this need, a web application was developed to allow visually impaired people to offer and request the services they want.

This app was developed using an adaptation of the Scrum framework. All the development was focused on covering as many accessibility issues that may arise in an application, supporting the correct progress with reports generated from applications responsible for measuring the level of accessibility, in addition to generalities such as the development of a backend with popular frameworks like NestJS.

Blind Service, as the web app was named, was tested with the help of volunteers with some degree of visual impairment, who completed the proposed tests. It was possible to validate the interest of institutions such as the Mariana de Jesus Specialized Educational Institution and the Luis Braille Society of the Blind of Pichincha in promoting this type of applications, since the demand for a service as an integral part of an application provides a great benefit for this group of people.