Assistive Technology 

for All Students

Chrome Extensions for student Equity

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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.

Helperbird

Helperbird is a browser extension that gives everybody the features and customization to make browsing and reading on the web easy. Including specialized fonts (OpenDyslexic), background colors, font colors, dyslexia ruler, text to speech, and more for Google Chrome!

immersive reader

Select text, right-click, and Microsoft's Immersive Reader will help you read it!   Great for working with a variety of languages as well.

OPen Dyslexic Font

Open-Dyslexic is an open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. This extension overrides all fonts on web pages with the OpenDyslexic font, and formats pages to be more easily readable. 

Reader mode

Reader Mode is a feature-packed Chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads and distractions, while also includes dyslexia support, bookmarking, annotating, highlighting, text-to-speech and many other features all in one tool.

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

Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

Rocket Readability

This extension simply parses web pages cutting out ads and unnecessary distractions leaving you with what you want: the content.

Visor

As well as being a great general purpose screen dimmer, Visor's overlays and point of focus feature may be assistive to users with visual perceptual difficulties such as Dyslexia, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and Visual Stress. 

WASP Line Reader

Make reading long texts online easier and faster by using this extension, which works by applying color gradients that make it easier for the eyes to chain together the ending of a line with the beginning of the next.

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.

Thinglink

ThingLink mobile app is the easiest way to save and share notes and observations about real-world spaces, situations and artifacts. Ideal for classroom and workplace learning with direct voice recording to camera photos!

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