Assistive Technology
for All Students
Chrome Extensions for student Equity
Click on the image next to each extension explanation to learn more or add the extension.
ATBAR
ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.
Beeline Reader
Suffering from screen fatigue? BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes through long blocks of text. This helps you read more effectively and maintain your focus better.
Colorblind - Dalton
Dalton provides solutions to some of the everyday problems experienced by color blind people. People with various types of color deficiency could benefit from the use of Dalton software including those affected by Tritanopia (blue color vision deficiency), Deuteranopia (green), Protanopia (red).
Handsfree
A Chrome extension to browse the web using only your voice, free to download and use. Hands Free can scroll, click things, navigate to webpages, navigate back or forward through your browsing history, enter text into forms, check and uncheck checkboxes, zoom in and out, open and close tabs, refresh the page, control YouTube videos, and more.
Read Write
Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
Website Tools for student Equity
Rewordify
Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension; effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary; help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons; help improve learning outcomes.