Developing a Language Learning Application for the Blind

The goal of this thesis was to help Lesson Nine GMHB(Babbel) to make their products available to a broader audience through the use of accessible design. Making Lessons Nine GHMB products more accessible, can help reduce the shortage of accessible language learning materials for people who are blind. We used qualitative research methodologies and the WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines to redesign and test one type of exercise from Babbel, to discover opportunities and technical solutions. We succeeded in building and testing a more accessible prototype for blind users that improves the instructions, navigational structure and information, so they can better understand what is happening on the screen. Further research is necessary to make the prototype fully accessible. However Lesson Nine can already improve the accessibility of their web application with simple adjustments that may be considered ‘low hanging fruit’, such information structure of the page and the use of test of a webpage.