Tools

Low-Tech Supports:

• • Reading windows

  • Bar magnifiers

  • Colored acetate reading helpers

  • Colored highlighters/highlighting tape

  • Graphic Organizers

High-Tech Supports

• • Accessibility Features:

    • • • Text to Speech

        • Speech to Text

  • Pdf reader

  • Visual highlighting printed word while it is being spoken

  • Digital bookmarks

  • Colored digital highlighters

  • Scanning

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR): locates and recognizes characters such as letters, numbers and symbols from a digital image

  • Text leveling (simplifies challenging text)

  • Summarization

  • Translation

  • Ad free content

  • Distraction free mode: display of web content as simple text

  • Zoom

  • Text/background color change

  • Screen masking: partial screen cover to spotlight reading focus

  • Coordinated writing supports

Apps/Extensions

• • Read&Write (Chrome, iOS, Android)

  • ClaroSpeak (Chrome, iOS, Android)

  • VoiceDream Reader: (iOS/Android)

  • CapturaTalk: (iOs, Android)

  • WebReader: (Android)

  • KNFB Reader: (iOS, Android, Windows 10)

  • Rewordify: (web app)

  • Join.Me (Chrome, iOS, Android)

  • Splashtop: (Chrome, iOS, Android)

  • BeeLine Reader (Chrome, iOS, Android)

  • Google Photos App (iOS and Android) provides OCR w/ translations

Reading Pen

• • C-Pen: camera and OCR technology in a pen that recognizes text and reads it aloud

  • Scanmarker Air Pen Scanner - OCR Digital Highlighter and Reader - Wireless

  • IRIS 457887 Executive 7 IRISPen USB Pen-Scanner