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Low-Vision
Low-Vision
People with low vision are often able to see the content if it is magnified. They may use a screen magnification program to increase the size and contrast of digital content to make it more visible. They are less likely to use a screen reader than a person who is blind, though in some cases they will. People with low vision may rely on the magnification or text customization features in their Web browser, or they may install other magnification or text reading software. Again, digital copies of materials provides these users the flexibility and control they need to modify the content as needed.
Common barriers for this group include:
Common barriers for this group include:
- content sized with absolute measures that are not resizable
- inconsistent navigation
- images of text that degrade or pixelate when magnified
- low contrast (inability to distinguish text from background)
- time limits (insufficient time to complete tasks)
- unexpected actions (e.g., redirect when an element receives focus)
Google Resources (Extensions & Add-ons)
Google Resources (Extensions & Add-ons)
- Read&Write for Google Chrome - Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research.
- Select & Speak - uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages.
- Speak it - Select text, and it will read it to you.
- Zoom + - is useful extension for quickly zoom in/out videos, images and texts on any websites.
- Paletti - choose a preset color palette to apply to your slide presentations or create your own instead of using Google’s themes. Create a palette based on the colors in an image. This resources might be helpful if you have students with color contrast issues.
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