This page was created to provide teachers with accessibility tips and tools that are quick and easy to implement in your classroom. These tutorials are from the teacher perspective and not necessarily applicable to students. You can download the Infographic if you'd like to print a copy!
By creating announcements and newsletters in Canva, you can quickly and easily translate the entire document quickly and easily! It'll create a copy of your document in over 100 different languages.
When you are in your document, click on Apps on the left hand side. Under More from Canva add Translate. When you click on translate, you can select the language in which you'd like the document translated to. Keep in mind, this isn't perfect, but for your students this will be a huge help for them. Give them the document in both English and their native language!
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English | Spanish | French | German | Chinese (Traditional)
Run any scanned document through Kami's Text Recognition tool to allow it be translated, use built in dictionaries, and be read aloud! Without doing this, your document is similar to a static image.
After running it, you can then save the PDF and upload to Google Classroom or Schoology and students can use their built in tools on their device to access all of their accessibility features!
Have a Google Slide Deck that students access? Make it a self-paced Pear Deck to allow students to use Immersive Reader! This will allow them to translate, define, & have it read aloud to them!
Just simply open up your Slides and click on your PearDeck icon in the top. Choose Student-Paced Activity. Now, just copy that link and put it in Schoology or Google Classroom for your students to access. They can now have it read to them, translated, change the text size, and much much more!
Did you know that Google has its own Dyslexia font? It's called Lexend and by creating documents using this font, it will be more accessible for all students. It's a simple font and by just selecting your document and changing it to Lexend, it'll help all students.
Also, by using Reader Mode (when available) in Safari on iPads, students can read articles in San Francisco font. This font was designed with all people in mind. It's also the native font on the iPad. Another benefit is that students will have less destractions and can change the size and color of the font as well!
You can now translate entire copies Google Docs (with the formatting) by going into tools and selecting Translate. This will create a separate translated document for your families/students.
With your document opened, just select Tools from the top menu and choose Translate. Then, choose your language and rename the document. This will create a copy that you can then send to families or students.
Not only are captions valuable in YouTube for English captions, but it can also translate (when available)! This will help your English Language Learners follow along in the video.
When available, click on the CC logo on the video. Then choose the gear and select Auto-Translate. Choose the language you'd like the captions to be in! Now, your English Learners can follow along with the video content!
