chromebook Accessibility Features
chromebook Accessibility Features
Dictation, Select-to-Speak, and other Accessibility Features to Help Your Students Get the Most out of Their Chromebook
The most useful accessibility features for students are:
Select-to-Speak: when turned on, students click the white speaker icon and drag across the text they would like read aloud.
Dictation: when turned on, student click the microphone icon and can click on any field (typing space) and speak what they want typed.
Chromebook Accessibility Features.mp4Read Aloud for Google Forms
Read Aloud for Google Forms
Using Chromebook Accessibility features to enable real alouds on locked and unlocked Google Forms.
Using the Select-to-Speak accessibility feature on PDFs.
Using the Select-to-Speak accessibility feature on PDFs.
Note: The Select-to-Speak feature only works on text-rich PDFs and not PDFs that are images of documents.
Using Voice Typing in Google Docs
Using Voice Typing in Google Docs
Tech Mashup: You could have a student use the voice typing tool in Google Docs for dictation, and then the built-in Select-to-Speak accessibility tool to have it read what was typed back to them.
Tech Mashup: You could have a student use the voice typing tool in Google Docs for dictation, and then the built-in Select-to-Speak accessibility tool to have it read what was typed back to them.