Assists blind and visually impaired students with organizing educational activities . The intent of the Amaricans with Disabilities Act and recent trends has been to integrate the disabled, including the blind, into regular work and educational settings. Attending classes on time, jotting memos, keeping track of exam schedules, calculating, timing, and memorizing are required in organized, regimented educational institutions. It was created and designed from the ground up for the blind and tested by blind users. Incorporates some of the concepts and features of electronic organizers, which are standard technology for the sighted .
Sighted people use electronic organizers for conducting all aspects of their lives.
They are usually lightweight, small, may interface with computers, include a wide range of memory, have calculators, timers, calendars, clocks, telephone directories and even tone dialing. The commercially available units all require the user to view a small screen to access the stored information. While the VD provides these same functions, it eliminates the need to view the information. Furthermore keys are arranged so the most frequently used ones are easiest to push. Organization of the telephone and address directory allows the user to program dialing from any area or country without changing the numbers or having to add country and area codes to numbers usually dialed as local numbers.