Students:

• Particularly useful for:

  • • Struggling readers, EAL students, students with visual impairments, students with learning disabilities like dyslexia, those who prefer listening to sight reading, and those who have trouble focusing

• Provides a read-aloud option for text within pictures that could otherwise only be accessed visually, making text within pictures accessible for all students, including students with visual impairments, dyslexia, etc.

• Increases comprehension of written text through individual selection of words, sentences, or phrases embedded in images or tables

• Increases students’ overall vocabulary development and word pronunciation through read-aloud option

• Increases reading speed and fluency

Teachers:

• Previously inaccessible digital text like diagrams, maps, infographics, etc. can be made easily accessible for all students in a classroom

  • • Teachers do not have to waste valuable time to recreate alternate diagrams, charts, etc. that can be accessed by all

• Teachers can utilize a larger variety of webpage material with the confidence that accessibility issues won't be a problem

Classroom:

• Builds student independence, because students are able to access all parts of webpages

• Assign students online research tasks with the knowledge that they can get required knowledge from key images likes infographics and diagrams

REPRESENTATION:

• Allows students to listen to text embedded in diagrams and images.

ACTION & EXPRESSION:

• Students can click on an image with text to hear the words read aloud.

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