Universal Supports: Tech Tools
Universal Supports: Tech Tools
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Take a look at this collection of tools available to support your personal learning needs. You can find information about ways to make text easier to read by adjusting the size or contrast of your Chromebook screen, have text read aloud to you, and how to more easily access programs like Edpuzzle, Freckle, Kami, and YouTube.
Chromebooks
Chromebooks
Chromebooks include accessibility features right out of the box, unlocking learning experiences for students with diverse needs, abilities and learning styles. (Google for Education)
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Explore how to change text, image & video sizes, image descriptions, captions and translations, Reading mode, Listen to this page mode and more make content on Chrome more accessible for all.
Reading Mode
Reading Mode
Customize your reading experience on Chrome with Reading mode. This feature is conveniently located in the Side panel and helps you:
Focus more easily on text.
Reduce distractions from images and videos on screen.
Select alternate typeface and font size.
Adjust letter and sentence spacing.
Choose background color.
If you’re using a Chromebook, you can hear the text you read with Read aloud.
Tip: The contents from general websites are shown and applied in the side panel.
To turn on Reading Mode:
Click the 3 dot menu in the upper right corner of Chrome.
Click on More Tools.
Click Reading mode.
Change text, image & video sizes (zoom)
Change text, image & video sizes (zoom)
You can change the size of text, images, and videos for one web page or for all web pages.
Get image descriptions on Chrome
Get image descriptions on Chrome
When you use a screen reader in Chrome, you can get descriptions of unlabeled images, for example, images that don’t have alt text.
Images are sent to Google to create the descriptions. If Google can't describe an image, the screen reader says “No description available.”
Important: Image descriptions are available in Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Kami
Kami
Make documents, presentations, PDFs, and images easier to read and understand.
Make documents, presentations, PDFs, and images easier to read and understand.
Dictionary - Gives you an instant, simple definition right on the spot.
Translate - Translates the selected text into your preferred language
Explain - Rewords the text to make it simpler and easier to understand.
Summarize - Cuts down on the words to give you the main idea quickly.
Relevel or Adjust - Rephrases the text to a different, simpler reading level.
The Read Aloud tool turns written text into spoken words. This is useful for listening to directions or checking your own work.
Google Workspace for Education
Google Workspace for Education
Every student has different needs in the classroom. That's why Google for Education products are built with accessibility in mind, to help every student learn, be inspired, and achieve their full potential.
A tool from Google that predicts and suggests complete sentences or phrases as you type.
You can use your voice to type and edit your document in Google Docs and your speaker notes and captions in Google Slides.
Use your voice to type and edit your speaker notes and show captions in Google Slides.
You can translate documents into many languages with Google Docs.
You can check your spelling and grammar in Google Docs, then accept or ignore the corrections.
Find and correct misspellings as you type in Google Slides.
Open a dictionary in the side panel in Google Docs from the Tools menu.
Supports available within commonly used programs
Supports available within commonly used programs
Rewatch segments
Change video language
Translation Support
Translate the page to see the questions, menus, etc. in another language.
Translation Support
Translate the page to see the questions, menus, etc. in another language.
Translate captions for YouTube videos in Edpuzzle:
Open the video in YouTube (click the YouTube logo), turn on captions, and change the caption language to the preferred language.
Embedded tools like definitions, videos, manipulatives (math)
Teachers can enable the ability to have any content read aloud.
Teachers can change a student’s account language to Spanish
Add Captions
Add Captions
You can add closed captions to many of the videos found on YouTube.
Click the button in the bottom of the screen that says 'CC'.
This will show the words on the screen so you can now read and listen at the same time.
Translate Closed Captioning
Translate Closed Captioning
Click CC in the bottom right corner.
Click the gear wheel ⚙.
Click "English (auto-generated)".
Click "Auto-translate" and select your desired language.
Change the Speed of Videos
Change the Speed of Videos
You can change the speed of any videos you watch on YouTube.
Slowing down a video can make it easier to understand. This will also give you time to absorb the information and make notes as you need to.
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