University Examination System for Students with Visual Impairments

This paper presents the development of a web based, platform independent system for university examination purposes that can be easily accessed and used by students with visual impairments, with minimum effort required to learn its use. The developed examination system allows students with visual impairments to take suitably adapted online written examinations according to their individual and personalized special characteristics and preferences for reading digital text. Those special parameters and characteristics can be applied as predefined user options to the examination platform. The user interface for individuals with low vision is based on the selection of effective color contrast and the principle of legible texts that students need in order to read and write during examinations. Based on the above, it was considered necessary that special parameters and characteristics had to be tested and determined by the end users themselves with N Print tests.