Universal Tools For All Students

General Accessibility Resources

Accommodation Resources: a variety of Google Tools and Chrome Extensions that can help struggling students, from education technologist Eric Curts

Chromebook Accessibility & Learning Tools: a poster-type document showing how to access accessibility settings on the Chromebook and some of the features available.

Chromebook Accessibility Help Pages: Google's tutorials for learning (and helping students) to best utlize their Chromebooks for support

Easy Closed Captioning & TTS Tools

Google Meet Automatic Captions

Google Slides Automatic Captioning and Video to explain GSlides CC.

Screencast-o-matic.com: Editable automatic captions with annual paid subscription of $18

The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP): Access over 8,000 accessible educational videos media for early learnings through high school, funded through the Department of Ed. Caption Key, Description Key, Key to Access Related Resources. FREE to all teachers and parents of students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

YouTube: Automatically captions videos; captions are editable, transcripts can be added

MiStreamNet: Create & load video resources for your students, integrate quizzes, polls and more, along with automated Closed Captioning. Reach out to your local REMC Contact here to start your free account!

Flip!: (formerly FlipGrid) Integrates Immersive Reader Tools for Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Translations, Closed Captions, line reader tools. AND MORE!


Google Extensions

Read & Write: Extension to add to Google Chrome - make text to speech and speech to text available on every website!

Kami: Kami is a PDF editing suite that is FREE for students, regardless of if the teacher has an account. It's a great tool for student to be able to open ANY document to make it OCR accessible to screenreaders.

Equatio: An extension that helps to create equations, formulas (and more!) that work with in-app screenreaders!