Accessibility for students with disabilities

Academic support
Social support services
Useful software for people with disabilities

Disability

A person's disability can be visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, physical or mental, respectively it refers to any condition that has a major impact on daily functioning and activity.

Definitions of disability

According to the World Health Organization (2001), disability is represented by any restriction or lack resulting from a deficiency, of the ability, ability, to perform an activity in the manner or at the level considered within normal limits for a human being.
At the level of the European Union, disability is considered a problem of the whole society and implies continuous adaptation in all dimensions of life for the reception and maintenance of disabled people in the dynamics of social life.

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Academic support services for students with disabilities

The West University of Timișoara, through the Psychopedagogical Assistance and Integration Center, offers students with disabilities the following facilities/services:
  • Declaration of disability on the application form and afterwards
  • Service support procedure Procedural intervention scheme for students with disabilities adopted by the Senate.
    https://www.robobraille.org/ro
  • Learning Advisory Services
  • Individual counseling (psychological and learning) offered by five teaching staff with the right to practice freely in special psychopedagogy
  • Mimic-gestural interpreter
  • Accessible reading room for students with disabilities in the Library
  • Central University "E. Todoran"
  • Possibilities to negotiate learning conditions

All facilities (services) are provided upon request
CAIP procedure
 
 

Social support services

People with visual impairments can access the site by installing screen reader applications, such as voice synthesis applications NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) or Job Access With Speech (JAWS), which can be downloaded for free from the links specified below.

Software available for people with visual impairments:
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access)
JAWS (Job Access With Speech)

The applications have both an interface and a reading robot (TTS - Text To Speech) in Romanian.

The applications are portable, therefore they do not have to be installed, but only downloaded and unzipped in a location on the computer or on a flash-drive (memory-stick) and can be used not only for this website, but for any application that runs under Windows operating system.

Instructions for use:

The application is unzipped;
The computer's audio system is turned on (speakers, headphones, etc.);
Running the main program – nvda.exe;
The program logo will appear in the Windows notification area (next to the clock);
To configure, right-click on it, then choose the options:

  • Preferences – General settings, then select the desired language for the program interface; to apply the settings, the program must be restarted;
  • Preferences – Voice settings, then select the desired language for the reading robot.



When you move the cursor over an area on the computer screen, the audio system will speak the name of the area, command or text.

On the main website of the university and on the websites of the faculties, there is an accessibility module that includes the following functionalities:

  1. Changing the contrast for the visually impaired
  2. Highlighting links
  3. Text spacing
  4. Stop animations
  5. Hiding images
  6. Dyslexia friendly font
  7. Enlarged cursor for navigation
  8. Adjust text spacing, alignment, and saturation

Access to these functions is easy, being available on the left side of the page, through a specific accessibility icon.

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