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Assistive technologies are software or equipment that help those with disabilities interact with digital information. These include screen readers, screen magnifiers, voice recognition software, and selection switches. It's important to ensure any information delivered through websites is compatible with these assistive technologies.

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Ensure that everyone has access to afforadable and reliable internet connectivity, devices (smartphones, tablets, computers), and the infrasturcute to support these technologies.

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Provide education and training to help develop skills needed to use digital technologies effectively. These skills could include using a computer, navigating the internet, online safety and privacy, and using digital tools for communication and collaboration.

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Ensure that online content, services, and applications are accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities, those who are not proficient in the dominant language, and those with low levels of literacy or digital skills.

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Digital inclusion ensures that all students, regardless of their sociaeconomic background, have access to and can benefit from a wide range of quality educational materials and resources.

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Digital inclusion allows for personalized learning experiences tailored to individual student needs.

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Digital inclusion in education helps bridge the digital divide by providing underserved and marginalized communities with the technology and connectivity they need. This can reduce educational disparities and promote social equity, ensuring that all student have the opportunity to succeed academically.

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Digital inclusion is essential for remote learning, which is a flexible option for those who may face barriers to attending traditional in-person classes. Access to digital devices and reliable internet allows students to participate in online classes, complete assignments and engage in virtual group work, regardless of their physical location.

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Images should include alternative text for those who are blind or people who turn off images (low bandwidth). With alternative text, a screen reader will read the information aloud on the page.

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A transcript for any audio makes the information accessible to those with difficulty hearing.

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Avoid too many links and describe what the link is, as "click here" can be confusing for screen readers. Also, indicate whether a link opens in a new window or not.

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Consider typography, as small text can be difficult to read for those with visual impairments. Also consider contrast in design, as low contrast is hard to read for people with color blindness or visual impairments.

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Using Design Accessibility - Canva Help Center

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Ensure that your Canva designs are inclusive and meet the Accessibility Standards. Continue reading to discover more.

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Provides comprehensive resources and guidelines on web accessibility.

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Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

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Are the closed captions on when showing a video?

Did you load the video to YouTube for easier access? (subtitles, playback speed, bandwidth, device compatibility)

Do you use QR codes in prerecorded videos?

Fun fact: Google now has closed captions that automatically appear with audio/video content!

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Do you have closed captions?

Have you provided a transcript of the audio?

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Do you have a clear color contrast?

Are there clear headers for logical organization?

If creating a website, have you used a web accessibility evaluation tool, such as WAVE?

Is your type easy to read? (Consider font, size, organization)

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WAVE ® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.

WAVE Browser Extensions

You can use the online WAVE tool by entering a web page address (URL) in the field above. WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser extensions are available for testing accessibility directly within your web browser - handy for checking password protected, locally stored, or highly dynamic pages.

WAVE API and Testing Engine

The WAVE subscription API and Stand-alone WAVE API and Testing Engine are powerful tools for easily collecting accessibility test data on many pages. The stand-alone API and Testing Engine can be integrated into your infrastructure for testing intranet, non-public, and secure pages, including in continuous integration processes.

Accessibility IMpact (AIM) Report

Your Accessibility IMpact (AIM) assessment report provides detailed WAVE test data, your site's AIM score (a measure of end user impact compared to web pages generally and as determined by human testers), and expert manual test results to give you insights into the accessibility of your web site for users with disabilities.

Need more than one page at a time?

Our friends at provide an enterprise-level web accessibility evaluation system based on WAVE that gives site-wide monitoring and reporting over time.

Learn more at pope.tech.

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WAVE ® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content.

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Do all students have internet connectivity?

Do all students have the appropriate devices to access your content?

Do all students have the skills needed to complete your digital activity?

Do students have the skills necessary to keep themselves safe and protected while on the Internet?

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Have you indicated what the links are? (Avoid saying click here)

Have you indicated if a link will open in a new tab?

Have you indicated if you are linking to non-HTML content (PDF for example)?

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Have you used alternative text for images?

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If you are using Chromebooks, there are accessbility features that could be helpful for you and your students. Watch the video to discover features like large mouse cursor, full screen magnifier, select-to-speak, etc.

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You can use AI to help make your online educational resources inclusive. Check out the website for more information.

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Using accessibility AI tools in education ensures equitable access to learning materials. The tools are especially helpful in creating learning materials for students with disabilities. The tools use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help create educational content specific to learning needs or add features that make the content more accessible.

For instance, adding captions, text to speech and other such features improves the utility of the content. It ensures people with limited abilities can also benefit from the content. Using accessibility AI tools helps students with special needs and promotes diversity and inclusivity in education.

The tools mentioned below can help you transform how you create content, its presentation and enhance and expand its consumption. Here are a few tools that can help:

Speech recognition tools convert speech input into written text and help individuals who struggle with reading and writing and those with hearing difficulties.

SpeechText.AI

SpeechText.AI allows users to transcribe data from audio and video automatically. Users simply have to upload a file and convert the audio or video content to text in seconds. The tool promises high accuracy as speech recognition technology offers a human level of accuracy. Educators can use the tool to convert podcasts, educational videos, recorded lectures, audiobooks and other audio resources into text.

SpeechFlow

SpeechFlow was designed to improve office efficiency but can equally benefit educators. The tool offers multilingual transcription services and creates accurate and readable text. This is ideal for language educators as multilingual audio/video resources can be converted into text form in their choice of language.
Text-to-speech helps students with reading trouble and those with visual impairments as it converts text inputs to speech output.
SpeechGen

SpeechGen offers text-to-speech solutions with realistic human voices and vast language support. Users can create good quality audio from text and customise voice-over as preferred. The audio generated can be downloaded and converted into MP3, WAV, and OGG files for free. The tool reads up to 2,000,000 characters in one go making it ideal even for larger files.

Lovo.ai

Lovo.ai is an award-winning AI-based voice generator and text-to-speech platform. The tools offer text-to-speech solutions for a wide range of voices that can cater to multiple levels of education. LOVO's recent launch, Genny, is a game-changing AI voice generator that allows users to access text-to-speech and video editing features simultaneously. The tool is ideal for educators as it serves both audio and video elements. Genny can produce a human-like voice with exceptional quality and offers customisation over modality. Users can pick from over 500 voices, 20+ emotions, and 150+ languages.

The tool comes with a pronunciation editor, emphasis, speed and pitch control to perfect your audio as required, especially beneficial for special education teachers, language teachers and kindergarten teachers.
Closed captioning tools generate captions for videos and other multimedia content making it accessible for students with hearing impairments.
Otter AI

Otter.ai allows you to record and transcribe meetings and conversations with precision. The tool is ideal for generating reports and texts on video conferences or online classes. It generates shareable notes and is compatible with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. The tool offers cross-platform availability and can be used on iOS, Android, and Chrome devices. This tool can benefit educators who want to capture lectures and discussions for easy reference.

Captions is a fantastic tool for educators who create educational talking videos. The tool streamlines the process of creating captions, short clips and recording talking videos. It can also transcribe videos automatically. You can record videos for up to a minute, and the platform will transcribe, caption and clip the video. The tool supports multiple languages and provides custom control over various text styles. Educators who want to create informative bite-sized content will find the tool of great help.

Also Read: AI-Powered Tools For Language Learning and AI Tools That Help Teachers and Parents and Support Self-Learning

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Top Accessibility AI Tools For Educators - EdTechReview

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Living in the age of digital education, it is imperative that educators create learning materials with various accessibility features so all students can benefit out of it. Creating such learning content can be challenging but various tool can help. Read this post to learn more about using accessibility AI tools in education for equitable access to learning materials.

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Consider providing a handout for those who need printed material and cannot access digital information or provide an alternative way of completing work. Perhaps conduct a survey to understand each student's digital needs.

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Offers resources on digital inclusion policies and advocacy efforts, as well as best practices and case studies on digital inclusion initiatives.

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Provides resources, webinars, and professional development focused on inclusive learning practices.

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The Inclusive Schools Network, sponsored by Stetson & Associates, Inc., is a web-based educational resource for families, schools, and communities, providing information and resources that facilitate inclusive education practices.

We support schools around the globe by sharing tools and strategies to increase opportunities for students with disabilities and build knowledge of inclusive education.

Join us each year to celebrate Inclusive Schools Week™ and recognize the accomplishments of schools and communities in ensuring equity and access for all students.

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Inclusive Schools Network | Supporting Inclusive Education

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We support schools worldwide with tools and strategies to increase opportunities for students with disabilities and expand awareness of inclusive education.

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The Office of Educational Technology (U.S. Deptartment of Education)

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The Office of Educational Technology (U.S. Deptartment of Education)

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Offers comprehensive guides and toolkits for implementing digital inclusion and accessbility in education. Additionally, the Office of Educational Technology provides policy recommendations and frameworks for ditital equity in schools.

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Learn about the vision and history of the Office of Educational Technology, working to transform teaching and learning in collaboration with other Department of Education offices.

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Develops national educational technology policy and establishes the vision for how technology can be used to transform teaching and learning

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ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)

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ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)

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Provides guidelines for effective use of technology in education, as well as offers professional development resources, webinars, and a community forum for educators to share best practices.

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Computer Science & Computational Thinking

Introduction to Computational Thinking for Every Educator

In the digital age, computational thinking (CT) is an essential skill for students and educators alike. This systematic approach to solving problems is at the foundation of not just computer science, but many other subject areas - and careers - as well.

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The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a nonprofit organization that helps educators use technology to revolutionize learning.