The Ongoing Development of Mubsereen: An R Package for Students with Visual Impairment or Blindness

Introduction There is an imperative need to address accessibility for students with visual impairment or blindness in higher education. Statement of the Problem Statistics are a common challenge to some psychology and social science students due to their complexity, abstract nature, and the need to mathematically model human behaviour, yet sparse efforts have been made to teach statistics specifically to this student population. Literature Review Research on the topic usually recommends accessible teaching materials or strategies, and some RStudio packages are accessible for this student population. Teaching Implications The Mubsereen package (‘ those who have insight ’) comprises 10 functions that compute, analyze, interpret descriptive statistics, perform mean comparisons, correlation, regression, chi-square, and logistic regression. To facilitate screen reader accessibility, an alternative output method is pre-programmed into the functions and can be modified as needed. Conclusion The package is not a stand-alone tool. We provide instructor preparations and recommendations (such as tactile printouts) for a successful lecture. The proposed package is not published on CRAN, as we intend to beta-test it in classrooms like yours before uploading it.