Virtual assistant for the visually impaired

Research shows that people with visual impairments are 31% less likely to access the internet than individuals without disabilities. This paper illustrates the implementation of software that provides assistance to the visually impaired for accessing the internet. The software shall prove instrumental in the way the internet has accessed and will increase the ease of use drastically. Although technology has grown leaps and bounds, the internet - especially websites are still inaccessible by the visually impaired. The software provides a way to interact with these websites with much ease. With the use of voice commands instead of the traditional keyboard and mouse, our software provides a new dimension to access and provide commands to any website. The software will read out the content of the website and then using speech to text and text to speech modules along with selenium, our software can automate any website. The user is free from remembering complex braille keyboard commands or the hassle of typing, he/she can simply voice out his/her command and the software will execute it. The system also has the functionality of providing a summary of the content on the website and answering questions asked by the user with reference to the summary using a BERT model trained on the Stanford Question Answer Dataset. This software will revolutionize the internet and pave the way for Web3.0.