Microsoft Accessibility Tools for Student Accommodations
Assistive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities or elderly population while also including the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.
You are successful if you can…
· close the web browser and locate the accessibility tools: Immersive Reader, Dictate, and Magnifier.
· show your partner how to use the features of the accessibility tools listed above.
· share one suggestion for implementing the use of these features with students.
Microsoft Educator Center
Earn your Microsoft Educator Badge
by completing
Accessibility tools: Meeting the needs of diverse learners
Educator Learning Module
Table of contents
- 1.Introduction: Accessibility in practice
- 2.Ease of Access center - making the computer easier to use
- 3.Minimizing distractions
- 4.Improving focus with Office 2016
- 5.Expressing yourself using OneNote and Office 2016
- 6.Improve reading comprehension with OneNote Learning Tools
- 7.Interact with Cortana using speech
- 8.Using Speech Recognition to control the computer
- Quiz
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