Accessibility
Accessibility Support
The following accessibility support is available to you
- Accessibility guides
- IT skills training
- Student Support & Wellbeing - Moodle page
- Disability Team - Sensory Adviser:
contact h.dignum@chi.ac.uk or disability@chi.ac.uk for support and advice - if you have access issues or queries due to being blind, visually impaired, or D/deaf.
There are also a number of accessibility tools detailed below.
Windows PCs
Accessibility settings can be customised on Windows computers using ‘Ease of Access’ from 'Settings'
More information: Windows Ease of Access Centre
Apple Macs
Accessibility settings can be customised on Apple Mac computers using ‘Accessibility’.
More information: Apple accessibility options
Microsoft Immersive Reader
The Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Forms, and the Edge browser, that implement proven techniques to improve reading & writing for people regardless of their age or ability.
More information: Microsoft Immersive Reader
Moodle accessibility tool
The Moodle accessibility tool can be used to customise Moodle display settings e.g. setting your preferred colours & fonts.
More information: Moodle Accessibility Tool
Microsoft Teams accessibility tools
Microsoft Teams allows you to use a screen-reader with the app
During Teams meetings you have the following accessibility options
- Live transcriptions of a Teams meeting - which can be downloaded afterwards
- Live captions in a Teams meeting - not available afterwards
Inspiration 9
Inspiration 9 is used to create mind maps for assignment planning
and can be accessed via the startmenu on University computers.
More Information: Inspiration 9 (mind mapping)
Read & Write - Texthelp
This software includes on-screen text to speech, and other tools to help with reading & writing
and is available via the Start menu on University computers.
More information: Read & Write
SensusAccess
SensusAccess allows automatic conversion of documents into a range of media
including audio books, e-books, and digital Braille, and can also convert inaccessible documents into a more accessible format.
It is accessed via help.chi.ac.uk/sensusaccess or alternatively from the SensusAccess Moodle page.
More information: SensusAccess
Video captions
Captions are available on any Microsoft Stream or eStream recordings using the CC icon. 
Please note recordings done in a live environment use machine-generated captions, the accuracy of these varies depending on the audio quality, topic and speaker, and therefore are unlikely to be 100% accurate.