Techology | Features | Descriptions |
Chromebook
| | - Screen resolution, zoom in or magnify your screen
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- Built in screen reader (ChromeVox)
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| - Plug in: Plug the braille device into a USB port on Chromebook
- Pair with Bluetooth
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| - Type or handwrite text, or to add images to files, documents, and emails
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| - Listen to full pages read aloud with Chromebook’s built-in screen reader or hear parts of a page, including specific words, read aloud with Select-to-speak
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| - Set the cursor to automatically activate when the cursor stops moving for a certain amount of time. This feature can be helpful for users with motor impairments
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| - Descriptions of unlabelled images, for example, images that don’t have text
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G Suite
| - Present slides with captions
| - When slides are presented, automatic captions can be turned on to display the speaker's words in real time
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- Captions in video meetings
| - Speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes' tool enables typing and editing
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- Caption tracks to video files
| - Captions assist students to understand and engage with videos
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| - Speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes activates typing and editing
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Apple Devices Apple Mac
| | - With Voice Control, voice can support students to navigate and interact with their device by using voice to tap, swipe, type, and more. MacOS Catalina introduces Voice Control, a new way to fully control a Mac entirely with voice
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| - Dictate text instead of typing it. Enable dictation
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| - Students can listen to an audio description during a video to help them enjoy a program if they're visually impaired, or when they're unable to look at the screen
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| - Video subtitles
- Some video content from the iTunes Store and Apple TV app includes alternative audio languages or other accessibility features such as closed captions (CC), subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), and audio-described (AD) content
- Also refer to content below about captions in YouTube
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| - VoiceOver is a screen reader that describes what’s happening on a device so students can navigate by listening and performing gestures. VoiceOver's speaking rate and pitch can be adjusted to fit each student's needs
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| - When this feature is turned on, the device speaks letters and words as they're typed, and speaks auto-corrections and capitalisations as they appear. Students can also touch and hold on a word to hear text predictions
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| - While watching films on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, students can turn on audio descriptions to have scenes described to them
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| - Display and text size features such as Invert colours can be adjusted to change the way content appears on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The font size, colour intensity and tint can also be adjusted to make reading easier, and the frame rate on iPad Pro can also be changed
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| - Magnifier can turn iPhones or iPads into a magnifying glass so students can zoom in on objects near them. Students can use Magnifier to read small text, apply colour filters to increase visibility, and save magnified images to your Photos library
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| - If students are sensitive to motion effects or screen movement on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, they can use Reduce Motion to turn off these effects
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Windows 10
| | - Adjust size, colour, magnify the screen, apply colour filters
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| | - Narrator reads aloud the text on a PC screen. It also describes events such as notifications and calendar appointments
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| | - Boost contrast or get rid of colour entirely—whether a student has colour blindness, light sensitivity, or a visual preference. With colour filters students can customize their screen's colour palette
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| | - Enlarge words and images with Magnifier. Can be used on all or part of the screen
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| | - Use closed captions to read the words that are spoken in movies and television shows. With Windows 10, students can adjust the colour, size, and background transparency to fit their specific needs
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| | - Windows 10 helps with turning on the Mono audio, and your left and right speakers will play the same sounds
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| | - Adjust notifications to make them appear on your screen longer, especially if you have difficulty seeing or hearing, up to five minutes display time
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| | - If you may wish to have visual notifications over sounds, text and visual alternatives
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| | - Receive assistance with constructing sentences. Word suggestions appear and they can be inserted as students type
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| | - Blocks alerts and notifications without being distracted. Students can add people to a list and they will receive a summary of what they have missed
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| - Dial down the distractions
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| - Reading distractions-Immersive Reader options
| - Use the reading view to clear distracting content from web pages so students can stay focused on what they need to read
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| | - Use dictation to convert spoken words into text
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YouTube
| | - Helpful for listening to YouTube-set Caption settings while watching a video, click on the “CC” icon and then the “Settings” menu item
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