Online Learning Platform for Students with Disabilities: Possible Path to Progress

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the educational system, students cannot go to school as usual. Therefore, Ministry of Education cooperates with Distance Learning Foundation Under the Royal Patronage and Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication (NBTC) to organize distance learning through the digital distance learning television. During the COVID-19 situations, schools increasingly adapt themselves to distance learning. However, schools for disabilities, Suksasongkhro Schools, and Special Education Centers cannot organize distance learning media through Distance Learning Television (DLTV) due to limitations of the students with disabilities to use the distance learning system. For example, blind students cannot access visual contents of the video media through the distance learning system so they need audio description for what they cannot see. In addition, deaf students cannot access audio contents through the distance learning, and they need sign/hand language. Thai sign language is the first language of deaf people for communicating with other people. Therefore, in this study we aim to integrate Thai sign language, closed captions, and audio description into the video soundtrack.