Tool Name

What does it do?

Where can you use it?

Resources

ClaroRead

Speak any text on a website by selecting it, point with the mouse to hear text and links and captions, or click Play to hear sentences read out with highlighting to let you keep track of where you are.

Hear letters, words or sentences spoken back as you type. Simply type into web pages and hear what you type as you type it. For letters, hear the letter names or sounds spoken back to you, whichever helps you understand better.

Also allows dictation onto a document.

On web pages in the Chrome browser.

Google Docs

Accessible PDFs opened in Google Chrome

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Color Enhancer

Most Chrome webpages

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Dictation in Microsoft

You can type using the Dictate button in Microsoft office products.

• Speak to the computer to see your words typed out
• Can choose spoken language
• Speak punctuation or set to auto punctuate

Word

Outlook

PowerPoint

Learn more about Dictate text using Speech Recognition

Dyslexia Friendly

Increases readability of websites by changing to easier-to-read fonts and adding visual enhancements

Features:

- Change the font on websites to either OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans.

- Contrast between paragraphs of text is enhanced with different background color for even and odd paragraphs.

- A reading-ruler follows the mouse cursor.

Most Chrome webpages

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Google Translate

View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team.
Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language. Or, to translate the entire page you're visiting, click the translate icon on the browser toolbar.

Learn more about Google Translate at https://support.google.com/translate

Most Chrome webpages

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Immersive Reader

Can help improve reading comprehension by:

• read text on screen aloud with highlighting on current word
• remove distractions around text
• reduce visual crowding by increasing spacing
• change to more legible fonts
• change background/font contrast
• change size of text
• denote syllabification
• color code parts of speech
• use line focus rulers
• integrated picture dictionary from Boardmaker
• translate by word or document
• read aloud in translated language also available

Microsoft Word

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft Forms

Edge browser

Flipgrid

Install extension to use within the Chrome browser

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Postlight Reader

Most Chrome webpages

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Read Aloud

Most Chrome webpages

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles. 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

• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting

The Read&Write extension is pushed out automatically to all student devices.

You can install it on home devices here

Voice Type in Google Docs

Steps to use voice typing in a document

• Check that your microphone works.
• Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.
• Click Tools and then Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
• When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
• Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
• When you're done, click the microphone again.

Google docs

Google Slides

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