Android-Based Examination Questions Reader Application for Visually Impaired Students

Abstract

: Education is part and parcel of every human being. Education empowers an induvial, concocts a community, and protrudes a nation. To be educated, a person must gain knowledge through reading, listening, speaking, and writing. These processes are carried out through our body parts. Body parts such as the brain, heart, eyes, ears, mouth, hands, etc., play an important role in education. When any such body parts get affected, it will affect the entire system. Those people need extra guidance and support. As such, visually impaired students cannot read question papers during the examination as their sense of vision is deformed which can cause a lot of difficulties during their exam period including diverting the attention of the examiner to get special consideration or attention. However, a screen reading application can help impaired students to be independent in writing the exam. This project aims to address this problem by developing an Android application that has the capability of reading out questions to visually impaired students during examinations. To make the students independent in the examination hall in terms of perceiving questions. Moreover, the application can only work on mobile devices supported by the Android operating system. The Application`s reading capability is limited to questions written inEnglishlanguageonlyanditcannotreadtablesnordescribefigures.Inthecourseofthesoftwaredevelopment, this project has adhered to software Engineering principles where an iterative model was chosen as the SDLC approach to be used for the system development. After the system was fully implemented, a Beta version of the application was subjected to testing where informative feedback was obtained from testers and necessary changes were affected.