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How It Helps
How It Helps
Provides:
a single horizontal highlighted line through which the user can read sections of text on a document
customizable coloured overlays and opacity of both shaded and highlighted areas
a reading light that follows your mouse
a visual remedy for users with visual processing impairments, particularly those who experience 'swimming' words
line guides to improve focus while reading
How to Use
When you click on the setting gear, a dialogue box will pop up. The settings will allow you to use a colour overlay (choice of colour and opacity), a colour overlay with reading light (choice of colour, size and opacity), or an underline (colour, size and opacity can be adjusted).
Student Benefits
Student Benefits
In addition to the Google Docs Toolbar, Screen Masking is found on the Web Toolbar, Slides Toolbar and ePub Toolbar
Allows students with visual impairments, attention issues, and any student who finds text overwhelming, to focus on targeted information
Helps students to track the text being read and to return to the last place read in the text
Decreases other distracting text and images on a document
Aids motivation and the efficient completion of assignments by allowing students to engage with manageable pieces of text
Teacher Benefits
Teacher Benefits
Decreases distractions and promotes task engagement in the classroom
Allows teacher to highlight section of document that student(s) should focus on
Provides teacher with another instructional tool for highlighting areas of document a class needs to direct their attention to
How does Screen Masking support UDL?
Access
Promotes and sustains student focus by allowing for individual choice and multiple ways of interaction with visually presented material
Minimizes distractions
Build
Fosters independence
Allows students to control and gradually increase amount of text to focus on
Internalize
Encourages motivation by permitting students to choose which sections they will concentrate on
Develops self-regulation by allowing students to control and adjust presentation of content materials
Access
Allows students choice with customizable options for viewing and reading
Offers alternative presentation of visual material
Build
Promotes clarification and understanding of content by encouraging students to absorb small sections of text at a time
Supports decoding by reducing amount of text requiring student's attention
Internalize
Maximizes comprehension of content by helping student to focus on specific pieces of text
Access
Allows for customizable navigational methods to be used when interacting with text
Students can respond to text by highlighting key sections
Build
Develops tracking and comprehension strategies by allowing students to control the appearance and amount of text requiring their attention
Internalize
Facilitates motivation and by encouraging students to set goals for amount of text read at a time
Enhances focus by allowing students to concentrate on one section of doc. at a time
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