Accessibility Tools for Students & Teachers

This collection of Accessibility Tools is under construction

GSuite

• G Suite user guide to accessibility
• Use Google Sites with a screen reader

Read&Write

• Read&Write for Google Chrome

Databases

• articles can be read aloud
• articles can be translated

Creating Accessible Google Documents

• Use Verdana (or Arial as alternate)
• Title of document
  • Text - Verdana or Arial
  • Text size - 24
  • Spacing
    • single spaced
    • remove spaces before and after paragraph
  • Continue to use bold for emphasis - the Title text will be read by screen reader
• Body of document
  • Text - Verdana or Arial
  • Text size - body 12
  • Use header 1, 2, 3 as needed
    • Don’t use color or capitalization to distinguish
  • Limit use of bold or italics
• Use Page Setup to change margins to create single paged documents whenever possible

• How to Create Accessible PowerPoints
• Designing Accessible Document with Microsoft Word
• Accomodations for Print Materials
  • Word accessibility checker
  • Google Docs accessibility checker
  • Penn State Google Docs info
  • Penn State PDF issues
  • Grackle Docs add-on

1. Support for Educators
   1. Accessible Instructional Materials in the Digital Classroom
   2. Five Websites that Help Students with Low Vision in the Math Classroom
   3. Five Websites that Teach Kids About Vision Impairments