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Accessibility Features of OS X


Accessibility in Education - solutions from Apple

  Voice Over Speech Recognition Text-To-Speech Other Tools for Accessibility  

 
TextEdit A good basic program to help writers in the drafting stages of their work. Speech function speaks text back to user. Great tool to help with editing work.
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Computer Speak

You can have the computer speak the text in dialogs, messages, and documents.

Safari Browser
Text-to-Speech

To activate text-to-speech when viewing webpages in the Safari browser,
highlight a paragraph of text then go to
Safari>Services>Speech>Turn Speech On
The text is read aloud.

Readability Levels of Online Material

Before you send students to the Internet to use text-rich resources, think about the readability level of those resources. Learn how to determine the readability of a passage with the Flesch-Kincaid Grade scale using Microsoft Word .

 

Social Bookmarking

Screencast - Social Bookmarking in Plain English

del.icio.us is an easy way to collect and organize your growing list of useful websites for teaching and learning. This particular social bookmarking site has a large educator user base which means that you can view, link to and share the bookmarks of many other educators.

Watch a screencast by Andrew Brown - a del.icio.us workshop in under 3 minutes