Embedded Files
Adjusting how content is displayed and how devices are physically positioned makes learning comfortable and accessible.
What is Vision Support?
What is Vision Support?
It includes built-in software settings that magnify, contrast, or read aloud elements of the screen. These adjustments help students with low vision, visual fatigue, or color blindness navigate their devices completely independently.
Vision support tools customize and enlarge visual elements on the screen to make digital navigation completely independent.
Windows Magnifier: A built-in Windows tool that enlarges parts of or the entire screen. It also features a built-in reader that can speak the text in the magnified area aloud.
macOS Zoom: A system-wide accessibility feature on Mac computers that allows students to easily magnify the entire screen or a dedicated "picture-in-picture" window using custom keyboard shortcuts or trackpad gestures.
iOS Zoom: Built directly into iPads and iPhones, this feature magnifies any app or screen layout. It supports "Window Zoom" (a virtual magnifying glass lens) or "Full Screen Zoom" activated by simple three-finger taps.
Chromebook Magnifier: Built directly into ChromeOS. It offers a Full-Screen Magnifier that zooms in on the entire screen, as well as a Docked Magnifier that splits the screen—keeping the bottom portion normal size while magnifying the top third where the cursor moves.
What is Color Contrast Support?
What is Color Contrast Support?
These are built-in accessibility themes and filters that invert background colors or sharpen borders on a display. This ensures that text stands out sharply against its background, eliminating visual clutter.
Color contrast adjustments change the color relationships between text and backgrounds to make reading less taxing on the eyes.
Windows Contrast Themes: Features customizable, high-contrast display templates (like Aquatic, Desert, Dusk, and Night Sky) that replace low-contrast color schemes on websites and apps with sharp, high-contrast text and backgrounds.
macOS Increase Contrast: A built-in display setting that sharpens the borders of buttons, boxes, and UI elements on the screen, reducing transparency to make text and controls pop clearly against their backgrounds.
iOS Contrast & Color Filters: Built directly into iPad and iPhone accessibility settings. Students can turn on "Increase Contrast" to darken colors and borders, or apply specific color filters tuned for color blindness.
Chromebook High Contrast Mode: A built-in ChromeOS feature that instantly inverts the display colors (turning white backgrounds to dark gray or black) to reduce glare, making text vastly easier to read in low-light classrooms.
What is Screen Support?
What is Screen Support?
These are tools and display filters that modify the brightness and temperature of a monitor. They help reduce eye strain and prevent sensory overload from harsh, bright blue light.
Screen adjustments modify the visual display to make reading comfortable and prevent cognitive fatigue.
Windows Night Light: Shakes off cold blue light by warming up the colors on a Windows display to help reduce eye strain during long reading sessions.
Apple Night Shift: Automatically shifts the colors of Mac, iPad, and iPhone displays to the warmer end of the spectrum, which is gentler on sensitive eyes in dimly lit classrooms or study spaces.
Chromebook Night Light: A built-in slider in ChromeOS that adjusts the amber tint of the screen, helping students manage glare and light sensitivity throughout the school day.
What is Positional Support?
What is Positional Support?
It refers to hardware and physical adjustments that position screens or devices at the optimal viewing angle. This helps students with limited physical mobility, low muscle tone, or motor challenges access their devices comfortably.
Positional support hardware ensures devices are securely held at the ideal angle for viewing and interaction.
Device Stands & Mounts: Adjustable tablet and laptop stands elevate screens to eye level, reducing neck strain and aligning the screen perfectly with a student's line of sight.
Mounting Arms: Specialized clamps and mechanical arms that attach tablets or monitors directly to a student's desk, wheelchair, or adaptive seating, keeping the screen stable and exactly where they need it.
Page updated
Report abuse