Digital Accessibility & Inclusion
Chromebooks
There are many Accessibility features on Chromebook. If you go to Settings, and then Advanced Settings, you can find tools such as cursor enlarging, screen magnifying, auto clicking, screen contrast mode and more.
Click on the image below to find out more information about each accessibility feature.
Accessibility and Inclusion
It is important to recognise and minimise those at risk of exclusion from learning and seek to make adaptations and offer support to include them. We should aim to remove any unnecessary barriers that make it harder for students to engage and take part in learning. LAT are planning to address this by providing all pupils in Y6 to Y11 with access to a Chromebook ensuring continued access to learning and enhancing the educational experience for our pupils. Academies should consider their approach to students who do not have internet access at home. Some suggestions are to teach students how to utilise the offline working features of Google, and to consider before/after school homework clubs. The contributors to this document have provided the following suggestions to ensure inclusion and accessibility:
Use of Google classroom to set adapted tasks to different learners
Use of pre recorded videos of modelling and scaffolding shared with students who need more scaffolding
Abridged and adapted text resources shared with learners with low reading ages
Docs/Slides/Sheets zoom functions
Voice typing in Google Docs
Closed captions in Slides, Meet and YouTube
Google Translate in Gmail, Docs and Chrome Extension
Offline working
Read and Write
