Accessibility to the Disabled: A Service Oriented Architecture Approach

As today technology has witnessed remarkable advancement in almost all branches, still much attention needs to be directed to helping those disadvantaged from essential facilities. Specifically, much attention must be paid to the virtual world as it is the main theme of today's technology that makes a big world small. The virtual world is of much help to people with physical impartment. We need not forget those who are in the most need to such technology advancement, the handicapped people. In this paper, I propose a novel solution called "Adaptive Facility Middleware" - a Service-Oriented Architecture-Based middleware- to be incorporated in virtual educational environments enabling the join of handicapped students who wish to earn their degrees despite of their disability. This middleware will not require any virtual learning entity to change its general structure; however, it can be smoothly integrated to the current virtual learning environment to extend its operation to include the handicapped students. The proposed middleware adheres to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which supports the integration of independent services. This makes the middleware extensible and interoperable.