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Explore the accessibility features offered by Microsoft.

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Our commitment

We are committed to create and grow usage of accessible technology, expand skilling and hiring opportunities for people with disabilities, and advocate for policies that advance accessibility as a fundamental right.

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Accessibility Technology & Tools | Microsoft Accessibility

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Explore accessibility and inclusion technology from Microsoft Accessibility. Ensure and empower those around you to participate in activities at work or play.

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Interact with your students in real-time or record video demonstrations for content delivery using this online whiteboard!

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Explain Everything for the classroom

Teach. Learn. Empower.

Try it now

Instruct in real time

Create presentations that move at the modern speed of learning. Use video, notation, and audio recording to bring your instruction to life.

Present with an interactive whiteboard

Students as teachers

Strengthen leadership and collaboration skills by giving students the tools to create and share their own tutorials, animated stories, and presentations.

Create videos

Teaching that sticks.
Make every activity compelling with easy-to-create videos and interactive experiences. Start from a blank canvas or prepare materials in advance, with the option to provide verbal or visual feedback and adjust content on-the-fly.

Explain Everything in action.

See how others are using Explain Everything to create engaging learning experiences.

Success Stories

Explore curated staff picks, get tips and tricks, or learn from our tutorial database.
Explore Projects

Special EDU Offer

Discounts for students and teachers in primary and secondary schools around the world.

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Create interactive learning experiences where students and teachers can share thoughts and ideas in real-time.

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Explore the accessibility features included in IOS.

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Magnifier works like a digital magnifying glass, using the camera on your iPhone or iPad to increase the size of anything you point it at - from a prescription bottle to a candlelit menu. For those who are blind or have low vision and want more information about their physical surroundings, Detection Mode in Magnifier combines input from the camera, LiDAR Scanner, and on-device machine learning to offer intelligent tools like People Detection, Door Detection, Image Descriptions, Text Detection, and Point and Speak.

If you're standing in line, you can use People Detection to determine a person's proximity to you. Door Detection can help you navigate by identifying doors, text, and the presence of symbols - such as a restroom symbol, a no smoking symbol, or an accessible-entrance symbol - within a few feet of you. Image Descriptions and Text Detection let you hear more about people, objects, landscapes, and text in your camera's field of view. And Point and Speak makes it easier to interact with physical objects that have text, like household appliances, keypads, or labels on files. As you point and move your finger over or under different buttons or elements, your iPhone or iPad reads the text out loud, so you can perform everyday activities and tasks with more ease and independence.

Put moments into words.

Match your levels to your location.

Look down for a heads‑up.

Pinch.
Pinch.
Chat.

AssistiveTouch for Apple Watch lets people with upper-body limb differences use their Apple Watch without ever having to touch the display or controls. Using built-in motion sensors and on-device learning, Apple Watch detects subtle differences in muscle movements and tendon activity, letting you control the display through hand gestures like a pinch or a clench. Answer incoming calls, control an onscreen motion pointer, and access Notification Center, Control Center, and more. You can also use AssistiveTouch for Apple Watch to run shortcuts with Siri to complete tasks or modify VoiceOver and Switch Control settings on your iPhone.

AssistiveTouch for iOS and iPadOS helps you adapt standard gestures - like pinch, rotate, or swipe - to make them more comfortable for you. You can make other actions, like changing volume, accessible from the AssistiveTouch menu.

Cue
magic
here.

Let your voice call the shots.

Make your own calm.

This feature speaks for itself.

Assistive Access makes it easy for people with cognitive disabilities to tailor iPhone and iPad to reduce cognitive load and suit their specific needs. Designed with feedback from individuals with cognitive disabilities and their trusted supporters, this feature helps people focus on the activities they enjoy most and that are foundational to iPhone and iPad - connecting with friends and family, taking and sharing photos, and listening to music.

Assistive Access offers a distinctive interface with high-contrast buttons and large text labels, as well as tools to help individuals and trusted supporters focus the experience in specific apps - Phone and FaceTime (which have been combined into a single Calls app), Messages, Camera, Photos, and Music. You can also choose a more visual, grid-based layout for your Home Screen and apps, or a row-based layout if you prefer text.

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Apple products and services have built-in accessibility features to help you connect, create, and do what you love in the ways that work best for you.

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Use this Google Extension to create digital equations!

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(Archived) EquatIO for Google Introduction

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Check-out this site for Virtual Learning ideas & resources!

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Create Synchronous and Asynchronous Lessons that track student responses!

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Interact with your students asynchronously and track engagement!

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Support student interactions with documents using this annotation tool.

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Create fun and interactive lesson activities that encourage student engagement!

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Put your students at the centre of their learning experience

Give your students the tools to create their own learning experiences. Through student choice, autonomy, and collaboration, your students can create, present, and study lesson content on topics of interest in their own words and at their own pace.
Empower students to create with Kahoot! for:

In-class knowledge sharing

Lesson review and test prep

Collaborative learning

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Kahoot! for schools | Make learning awesome at school

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Make learning awesome together! Kahoot! for schools helps teachers collaborate, save time and create more engaging games.

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Engage your students in your lessons and formatively analyze responses in real-time!

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Live activities for teammates, students, and friends

Ask interactive questions that get participants talking

Get started

Engage remote attendees

Break through the silence

Leave a lasting impression on your audience as they watch their responses fill the shared screen.

Gain powerful insights

Turn sales trainings, workshops, and events into memorable conversations that drive lasting change.

Stay connected with students

Go beyond grading for correctness or participation and measure meaningful engagement.

Create engaging activities

Choose from a variety of activity types that let you visualize responses in real time, like open-ended Q&As, multiple choice, and word clouds. Each activity type encourages audience participation and helps you collect a different kind of feedback.

NEW! Build activities with the refreshed organization system

Customize your Poll Everywhere account to fit your unique workflow. With a brand new navigation and Folders that can contain other Folders within them, you can build a content structure that works for every upcoming meeting, training, class, or event. Categorize activities with multiple Folder levels and then share with your teammates to collaborate as a group.

Learn more ⟶

Share with the group

Present your activities from the web or by adding them to your slides in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides with the Poll Everywhere app. Once you share your screen, the conversation begins!

Discover insights

Identify knowledge gaps or areas of particular interest as the group's responses appear on the screen, then direct the conversation accordingly. Post-meeting, easily generate response reports for even greater insights.

Include everyone in the conversation

With Poll Everywhere activities, thoughtful responses and brand new insights are just a screenshare away.

Get started

For business

Engage teammates with a variety of activity types like word clouds and Q&As. Then, generate Executive summary reports to gain powerful insights into the conversation.

Learn more ⟶

For education

Import rosters from your LMS, keep the class focused with dynamic activities, and export attendance, participation, and engagement results directly into your gradebook.

Learn more ⟶

For remote work

Bring your next online trivia night to life with exciting Competitions to energize the crowd. Ask questions, watch participants race to the top, and celebrate with confetti.

Learn more ⟶

Get started with Poll Everywhere today

Start creating interactive online experiences for teammates, students, and friends.

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Host engaging online conversations with Poll Everywhere. Create interactive questions and activities, present on the web, and gain insight from the responses.

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Enhance your content delivery and support student interaction with an online interactive whiteboard!

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Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start drawing on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your students or make that remote tutoring session more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.

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Twiddla is an Online Whiteboard for the Modern Classroom. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too!

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WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING?

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WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING?

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Check out the What Works Clearinghouse for high-quality research on distance learning!

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As an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was created in 2002 to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education.

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Create interactive assessments within videos to enhance content and engage students.

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Check out ClassDojo for a fun and interactive way to reward students and communicate with parents!

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Check out Classcraft for a fun and interactive way to empower your students.

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HMH Classcraft pairs ELA and math content with research-based lesson plans resulting in reduced educator planning time and increased student engagement.

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Check out Desmos for quick access to a variety of math tools!

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Desmos offers best-in-class calculators, digital math activities, and curriculum to help every student love math and love learning math.

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Make interactive videos for your lessons using Nearpod!

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Get real-time insights into student learning and embed interactive formative assessment questions into any video. Upload your favorite videos or create your own.

Reduce lesson creation time investments by adding ready-to-use videos to any lesson. Nearpod's video library features 10,200+ K-12, standards-aligned, interactive videos from 35+ trusted educational publishers.

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Use the magic of Nearpod to make interactive videos students love. Choose from a library of 1,000+ pre-made educational videos for every grade and subject, or upload your own.

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Capture your screen and digitally annotate your video lessons!

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Screencastify is Chrome's simplest free screen recorder and video-creation platform, empowering anyone to become a better communicator by recording, editing, sharing, and assessing videos in seconds.

With Screencastify, use simple yet powerful screen recording tools to:

Record your desktop, browser tab, and/or webcam
Edit video from your browser
Share your video in multiple ways
Assess effectiveness with Interactive Questions and analytics
Request video submissions with Submit

Educators, professionals, and personal creators across the world use Screencastify screen recorder as a simple way to communicate more effectively through video.

🎬 Join a massive community of video creators
✔ Millions of weekly users
✔ Hundreds of millions of videos recorded
✔ Incredibly easy to learn and use

🎥 Create engaging videos with our easy-to-use screen recorder
▸ Record your browser tab, desktop, and/or your webcam
▸ Narrate with your microphone's audio
▸ Embed your webcam into the recording
▸ Annotate in real time to highlight key points

✂️ Simple video editing
▸ Trim the start and end of your videos
▸ Draw on your tab with the pen tool
▸ Merge, crop, and add text to videos

🚀 Share with your audience, wherever they are
▸ View and share videos on Google Drive
▸ Share to Google Classroom
▸ Export as MP4, animated GIF, or MP3
▸ See who has viewed your videos
▸ Add Interactive Questions to check viewer comprehension


👀Available free
▸ Create and store up to 10 videos free or upgrade for unlimited video creation
▸ Record and store videos up to 30 minutes for free

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How do people use Screencastify to communicate more effectively?

🎓 Education:
▸ Create instructional videos to engage your students whether they're university students or kindergarteners
▸ Create feedback videos to save time and increase your impact
▸ Embrace flipped classrooms or blended learning with video lessons
▸ Have your students practice foreign languages or public speaking
▸ Easily check for student comprehension with Interactive Questions

🏛️ At Work:
▸ Eliminate emails in favor of more effective, personalized communication
▸ Create performance review videos for coworkers
▸ Share engaging messages with your customers, users, and colleagues
▸ Create training and onboarding videos that captivate your employees
▸ Cancel meetings by sharing video instead

🌍 Everyday creators:
▸ With millions of weekly users, we've helped creators share countless ideas for videos to life - from professional YouTubers to personal trainers and attorneys to UFO hunters. What are you waiting for? Install Screencastify and inspire the world with your video communication.

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📝 Specs:
▸ Screencasts are captured as webm/vp8 files with ogg vorbis audio
▸ Videos can be saved to your local disk as various file types (GIF, MP4, etc), directly to your Google Drive, or you can simply share the link
▸ Screencastify screen recorder does not depend on any external software (like Java, Flash or other plugins) so it runs on Chrome OS, Chromebooks, and Chromeboxes
▸ Screen recording is a CPU intensive task. Older or weaker computers may lag if multiple programs and tabs are open at the same time as a screencast

📨 Info / Contact Us:
▸ Twitter:  @Screencastify
▸ Support Docs:  https://learn.screencastify.com
▸ Tech Support: support@screencastify.com

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The leading screen recorder for Chrome. Capture, edit and share videos in seconds.

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Record your video while sharing your screen with LOOM!

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Free screen recorder for Mac and PC | Loom

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Enhance you instruction and feedback by creating fun animations and videos!

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Video Maker | Make Videos and Animations Online | Powtoon

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Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use our library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own! Free. Easy. Awesome. Sign up today!

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Organize and share resources with learning communities.

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Save, organize and share content from across the web with Wakelet. Find out how Wakelet can transform the classroom for teachers and students

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Gizmos are interactive math and science simulations for grades 3-12

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Hi there. We're ExploreLearning!

We're an education technology company creating seriously fun solutions for the most critical challenges in K-12 STEM learning.

What's this serious fun business all about? Tell me more...

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We're an education technology company creating seriously fun solutions for the most critical challenges in K-12 STEM learning.

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Check out the many interactive math and science simulations on PhET!

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Over 1.1 billion simulations delivered

160interactive simulations

97language translations

3001teacher-submitted lessons

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

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Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

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The ISTE Student Standards guide educators toward student-driven learning practices that prepare students to thrive in an evolving technological landscape.

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The ISTE Educator Standards challenge educators to deepen their practice, empower students and rethink traditional approaches to education.

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Check out this award-winning film to spark discussion on the importance of digital citizenship.

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Search lessons and activities on digital citizenship by topic and grade.

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Classroom resources | eSafety Commissioner

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Challenge yourself to align your practice to UDL Principles, Guidelines, and Checkpoints!

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Reenvisioning the UDL Guidelines

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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Check out this website to learn about the impacts of teaching Digital Citizenship and browse ideas and resources for use in the classroom.

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Teaching digital citizenship has never been more important. Prepare students to stay safe, solve problems, and become a force for good.

The DigCit Coalition, ISTE, and the Los Angeles Unified School District are hosting DigCit Connect - a virtual event on October 22. This free event will provide parents, educators and students with the tools they need to be creative, innovative and responsible members of the digital world. Join us to learn how you can kick-start the movement in your homes, classrooms, and beyond.

Explore the DigCitCommit Competencies

Digital citizenship is a critical skill for students of today and our leaders of tomorrow. These five competencies will shift the conversation from don'ts to do's.

Inclusive

I am open to hearing and respectfully recognizing multiple viewpoints and I engage with others online with respect and empathy.

Informed

I evaluate the accuracy, perspective, and validity of digital media and social posts.

Engaged

I use technology and digital channels for civic engagement, to solve problems and be a force for good in both physical and virtual communities.

Balanced

I make informed decisions about how to prioritize my time and activities online and off.

Alert

I am aware of my online actions, and know how to be safe and create safe spaces for others online.

Parents, educators and others with an interest in equipping students to thrive in digital environments can find an array of resources from our partners.

Do you lead a Digcit initiative within your state, district or organization? We'd love to learn more about the innovative work you're doing!

Contact Us

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Check out this text to speech extension!

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Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio.  It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.

Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft.  Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable.

Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).

Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.

To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu.  In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward.  You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension.  Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu.

To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button).

Read Aloud is an open-source project.  If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.

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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.

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Read&Write for Google Chrome Feature Overview

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Check out the online library of accessible texts through Bookshare!

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Bookshare | An Accessible Online Library for people with print disabilities

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A font for supporting readers with Dyslexia

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For more than 00 years the U.S. Department of Education has found that nearly 00% of the population experiences some reading difficulty.

I read for a living - it's basically been exhausting. It's a relief to be able to read without stress, without my eyes getting tired.

- Lise, 37, Tech Business Strategist

Recently, I started using LEXEND to study my Spanish vocabulary list and raised my Spanish grade from a D to a B in just a few weeks.

- Travis, 16, High School Sophomore

With Lexend, my student was reading and loving it. Her participation in the classroom has increased to the point where I have to remind her to "be quiet" in class. Her self-esteem has improved measurably and she is obviously proud of what she is now able to do.

- Mrs. C, 1st Grade Teacher, California

My name is Commander Smith and the spaceship that I command has been exploring the planet known as Earth for almost a year. We have discovered that Earth is very different from our planet. Our next job was to explore the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. These states make up the Southwest region.

First, we had to backtrack a little and fly east to Texas. This is a huge state- the map showed that it was more than seven hundred miles wide. Later we found out that Texas is the second largest state in size, after Alaska. It is also the second largest state in population, after California. We certainly saw a lot of really big things in Texas- big cities, big oil fields, and big ranches. In fact, we found out that there is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the whole state of Rhode Island! Texas raises more cattle than any other state. The cowboy, a person who takes care of the cattle, is a symbol of Texas. In the late 1800s, Texas cowboys drove the cattle hundreds of miles to market in the northern states.

It was hard, dangerous, adventurous work, so many people thought of cowboys as heroes. Over time, the cattle ranches changed so that there was less need for cowboys. Today, there are not as many cowboys in

Texas. There are, however, many Texans who still dress like cowboys. They wear cowboy boots and a kind of tall cowboy hat they call a ten- gallon- hat because it looks as if it could hold that much water. Another symbol of Texas is the oil well. Texas produces more oil than any other state. Oil was first discovered near the city of Houston in the early 1900s.

Today, Houston is the largest city in Texas. The American space program has one of its largest workplaces there. One man told us that Houston was the first word spoken on the moon. He explained that when an American became the first human to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. The first thing he did was radio back to Houston. The United States was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. There have been six manned U. S. landings and numerous unmanned landings. To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last one in December 1972.

What makes a good reader?

There is a consensus among researchers and educators that reading fluency is one of the defining characteristics of good readers, and a lack of fluency is a common characteristic of poor readers.

This is important - because it means we're approaching this problem from an already established perspective, something that educators have been using for decades.

Differences in reading fluency not only distinguish good readers from poor, but a lack of reading fluency is also a reliable predictor of reading comprehension problems.

Once struggling readers learn the relationship between sounds and letters, their lack of fluency emerges as the next hurdle they face on their way to reading proficiency.

This lack of fluent reading is a problem for poor readers because they tend to read in a labored, disconnected fashion - with a focus on decoding at the word level that makes comprehension of the text difficult, if not impossible.

Fluency is measured in Words Correct Per Minute.

A student reads a story with 409 words in 4m 6s. She made 0 errors. To determine WCPM (Words Correct Per Minute):

1. Count the total number of words.

2. Count the number of mistakes.

3. Take the number of words minus the number of mistakes = number of words read correctly.
409 words - 0 mistakes = 409 correct words

4. Convert the time it took to read the passage to seconds.
4m 6s to read = 245.99999999999997s

5. Convert the number of seconds to a decimal by dividing the number of seconds by 60. This is the total reading time.
245.99999999999997s / 60 = 4.1 total reading time

6. Divide the number of words read correctly by the total reading time in decimal form.
409 / 4.1 = 100 Words Correct per Minute (WCPM)

What if we could turn it around... with typography?

In 1999, as an educational therapist, Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, working with clients, began observing that reading issues masked the individual's true capability and intelligence.

In 2000, Bonnie theorized that reading performance would improve through use of:

1. A sans-serif font to reduce cognitive noise

2. Expanded scaling to improve potential for character recognition

3. Hyper-expansion of character spacing, which creates a greater lag time and reduces potential crowding and masking effects

These changes led to the development of seven specially-designed fonts, which create an immediate improvement in reading performance.

This is where Lexend was formed.

A variable font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency.

Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, utilizing her theory and the LEXEND beta font designs, worked with Google to formulate an advanced set of typographic variables to coordinate with one simple idea:

A font, much like the prescription in a pair of eyeglasses, should change based on the reader's unique needs.

Combining some of the newest technology in font software and an educated history in professional type design, Lexend pulls the most important typographic factors in reading-proficiency into a variable font that was designed specifically to fluctuate based on a reader's Words Correct per Minute score - a typographic system that could be changed to make the words more readable, based on who's reading them.

The Demonstration of Effectiveness

20 third graders, eight males and twelve females, read for one minute in five fonts.

All text was set at 16pt and the reading materials were two grade levels above the participants current grade level to ensure the typography was being measured, rather than reading competency.

Each student read out loud a passage set in a control of Times New Roman, then four of the Lexend Series - Deca, Exa, Giga, and Mega.

My name is Commander Smith and the spaceship that I command has been exploring the planet known as Earth for almost a year. We have discovered that Earth is very different from our planet. Our next job was to explore the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. These states make up the Southwest region.

First, we had to backtrack a little and fly east to Texas. This is a huge state- the map showed that it was more than seven hundred miles wide. Later we found out that Texas is the second largest state in size, after Alaska. It is also the second largest state in population, after California. We certainly saw a lot of really big things in Texas- big cities, big oil fields, and big ranches. In fact, we found out that there is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the whole state of Rhode Island! Texas raises more cattle than any other state. The cowboy, a person who takes care of the cattle, is a symbol of Texas. In the late 1800s, Texas cowboys drove the cattle hundreds of miles to market in the northern states.

It was hard, dangerous, adventurous work, so many people thought of cowboys as heroes. Over time, the cattle ranches changed so that there was less need for cowboys. Today, there are not as many cowboys in

Texas. There are, however, many Texans who still dress like cowboys. They wear cowboy boots and a kind of tall cowboy hat they call a ten- gallon- hat because it looks as if it could hold that much water. Another symbol of Texas is the oil well. Texas produces more oil than any other state. Oil was first discovered near the city of Houston in the early 1900s.

Today, Houston is the largest city in Texas. The American space program has one of its largest workplaces there. One man told us that Houston was the first word spoken on the moon. He explained that when an American became the first human to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. The first thing he did was radio back to Houston. The United States was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. There have been six manned U. S. landings and numerous unmanned landings. To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last one in December 1972.

The p value in this experiment (0.014) says the chance of the results presented happening by random was 1.4%. In statistics, a result is considered significant if it's below 5%.

Lexend has been discussed in two Stanford labs, at HP & Microsoft, was listed on Apple K-12 Assistive Technology from 2003-2005, has recently been referenced in research and patents by Adobe, and is available both on Google Fonts & as an open-source download.

The Valuable Virtues of Variable Font Technology

As the study demonstrates, while the Lexend series were beneficial to a large sample of students, no one setting worked best for all students. Diverse readers call for diverse axis settings just like every individual person requires their own individual eyeglass prescription.

Eyeglass prescriptions are not six strict settings. There are more granular settings possible.

Variable font technology allows for continuous selection of the Lexend Series to find the specific setting for an individual student.

Variable Width + Bounding Box Variable Font Settings for CSS
h1, p { font-variation-settings: 'LXND' 0; }

My name is Commander Smith and the spaceship that I command has been exploring the planet known as Earth for almost a year. We have discovered that Earth is very different from our planet. Our next job was to explore the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. These states make up the Southwest region.

First, we had to backtrack a little and fly east to Texas. This is a huge state- the map showed that it was more than seven hundred miles wide. Later we found out that Texas is the second largest state in size, after Alaska. It is also the second largest state in population, after California. We certainly saw a lot of really big things in Texas- big cities, big oil fields, and big ranches. In fact, we found out that there is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the whole state of Rhode Island! Texas raises more cattle than any other state. The cowboy, a person who takes care of the cattle, is a symbol of Texas. In the late 1800s, Texas cowboys drove the cattle hundreds of miles to market in the northern states.

It was hard, dangerous, adventurous work, so many people thought of cowboys as heroes. Over time, the cattle ranches changed so that there was less need for cowboys. Today, there are not as many cowboys in

Texas. There are, however, many Texans who still dress like cowboys. They wear cowboy boots and a kind of tall cowboy hat they call a ten- gallon- hat because it looks as if it could hold that much water. Another symbol of Texas is the oil well. Texas produces more oil than any other state. Oil was first discovered near the city of Houston in the early 1900s.

Today, Houston is the largest city in Texas. The American space program has one of its largest workplaces there. One man told us that Houston was the first word spoken on the moon. He explained that when an American became the first human to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. The first thing he did was radio back to Houston. The United States was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. There have been six manned U. S. landings and numerous unmanned landings. To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last one in December 1972.

Lexend History

Founded in 2000, LEXEND came about from a desire to make reading easier for everyone. As an Educational Therapist, Bonnie Shaver-Troup, EdD, observed that reading issues masked the individual's true capability and intelligence. She theorized that these issues were a sensitivity to typographical factors and began manipulating multiple text factors to find a match between text format and an individual's optimized visual processing capabilities.

After careful research and years of testing LEXEND beta fonts, Bonnie was able to determine that while traditional approaches to reading issues focused on cognitive-based solutions, perception-based solutions were faster and more efficient in helping improve reading performance and cognition.

In 2017 Bonnie began working with Google to design an online variable-font solution that would ultimately give the reader complete control over their own reading experience and improve retention and comprehension.

What began as a seed in the home office of an educational therapist has become a world-class reading solution available to English-language readers across the world.

Download Lexend for free - and start changing the way the world reads today.

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I read for a living - it's basically been exhausting. It's a relief to be able to read without stress, without my eyes getting tired. - Lise, 37, Tech Business Strategist Recently, I started using LEXEND to study my Spanish vocabulary list and raised my Spanish grade from a D to a B in just a few weeks.

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Pricing

Individual License

$15/user (1-time fee), 17% discount when purchased through add-on during trial period, includes Classroom Access Code* valid for 1 year (additional years cost $10/yr)

* Classroom Access Codes are valid for the owners school domain only (ie. @schoolname.org) !

Please email jott@myedu.tech if the student domain is different from the teachers (ie. @student.schoolname.org vs @schoolname.org).

Note: Access codes will not be provided for non-educational accounts including @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @microsoft.com, or similar personal email providers!

Contact jott@myedu.tech for a custom quote

Notes:

1. Annual pricing will be re-evaluated with the school/district and may be upgraded with a new 1-time purchase.

2. 1-time pricing is valid for the life of the product, minimum of 1 year from purchase.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

1) To my knowledge, the scopes cannot be modified to remove a certain component such as deleting. The add-on does go thru a review process by Google to ensure there is no malicious intent, and I have no intent other than to help teachers teach and engage their students in rigorous content. This product (and all of my others) come out of coaching teachers and finding areas in which they face challenges, and I then code solutions to help meet those challenges. I do want to ensure you that the program only does what is described which is to record audio and/or video and store those recording in a shared folder titled "Ott-o-matic Recordings". Nothing else is done and no files are ever deleted (users can do that manually within their Drive). This script simply enables the user to do something that is not possible without an add-on like Simple Audio/Video Recorder. You can look at the OTT-o-matic Privacy Policy as well for further information to use of PII data. Additionally, for Simple Audio/Video Recorder, at initial use users can identify themselves as a student which will then submit student@[domainname] preventing the collection of the students email address. Access-Codes will be utilized to allow for additional licensing opportunities for students. Non-student users will have their email submitted for licensing.

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ChatEditor is a supplemental program that has been provided for customizing the Chat vocabulary on your Windows desktop or laptop computer. Although customizing is also possible on the app itself, the Editor allows the family and/or professionals to customize the vocabulary when the device is not present.
Note: Having the custom vocabulary on a computer is always recommended as a backup to the TouchChat® app.
App/Device and Editor Differences

ChatEditor is not intended to function as a speech generating device. It is a support tool for modifying the client's vocabulary so that the client can continue using the app while modifications are being made.

Dialog boxes will appear slightly different and a couple of the options are modified for the computer. When you are editing and accessing menus on the app, tapping on the screen opens context menus. In ChatEditor, right-clicking on the vocabulary window will open context menus for editing.
Please note that PCS symbols are available for purchase in the app and are not available on ChatEdtior for TouchChat.
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For step-by-step instructions on programming and transferring files, check out our Chat Editor Support Articles.

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