[01] Anam Ashraf, Department of Computer Software Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Blindness is a loss of sight and there are innumerable causes of blindness due to abnormal functioning of eyes impacting on cognitive development. Different traditional techniques and methods have been used to guide people who are visually challenged. Researchers and developers have come up with multiple innovative ideas to aid Visually challenged people to perform their routine tasks. As visually challenged people do not visualize world properly so requirement engineers face number of challenges while eliciting requirements from them. This paper focuses on the challenges faced during the requirement elicitation process. As challenges are discussed we have proposed a solution to overcome these problems.

Visually Challenged, Mobile Computing, Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering, Smartphone

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