Paper Materials
Use materials without background images.
Avoid materials with images that don’t convey meaning (cute bears, hearts, flowers, etc)
Choose documents with plenty of white space.
Digital Materials
Choose sites with fewer pop-up ads, fewer items on one page.
Use digital tools that remove clutter. (Reader View in iOS and Safari or Mercury Reader for Chrome).
Paper Materials
Choose documents that have adequate space between sentences (if you are printing a digital document, consider adjusting the spacing between lines before printing).
Choose documents with easy to read font (sans serif, Verdana and Tahoma are best)l
Print black font on white paper (high contrast)
Text should be at least 12-14 pt. (some students will need larger font).
Digital Materials
Create documents with adequate space between sentences.
Use easy to read font (sans serif, Verdana and Tahoma are best).
Use high contrast background/font combination (white background/black text of black background/white text).
Paper Materials
Inform students/parents about apps that read text aloud using a smartphone camera. (Seeing AI, TextGrabber and Prizmo)
Speech to Text on iOS device (iPhone, iPod or iPad)
Digital Materials
See this document for Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech to Text (STT) options for a variety of platforms/devices.
Paper Materials
Choose documents that have adequate space between sentences. (if you are printing a digital document, consider adjusting the spacing between lines before printing)
Choose documents with easy to read font (sans serif, Verdana and Tahoma are best)
Print black font on white paper (high contrast)
Text should be at least 12-14 pt. (Some students will need larger font)
Inform students/parents about apps that read text aloud using the smartphone camera. (Seeing AI, TextGrabber and Prizmo)
Suggest the camera magnifier option in smartphones, iPads.
Digital Materials
Use accessible text documents such as websites, Open Educational Resources, Word Docs, Google Docs, etc.
Avoid PDF’s and Flash interactions. (these often do not work with text-to-speech tools)
Show students how to enlarge the font, read with text-to-speech, use the highlighter and annotation tools and to copy text for note taking.
Paper Materials
Use a QR code to suggest videos that can be viewed on smartphones from Youtube, PBS Learning Media
Offer games that can be played at home to address the content.
Offer a maker/craft/science exploration activity.
Digital Materials
Offer videos from Discovery Education (all Macomb Educators have free access), PBS Learning Media
Share interactive websites for math (NLVM), science (Phet), ELA (ReadWriteThink) all subjects (Annenberg).
Offer a maker/craft/science exploration activity.