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If you're working with someone who's hearing impaired

Communication tips:

  • Make sure you have the person's attention before you start speaking — make eye contact
  • Avoid standing in front of windows or a light source, as your face will be in shadow, making it difficult to read facial expressions and to lip-read
  • Speak clearly and...
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    If you're working with someone who's visually impaired

    Communication tips:

  • Introduce yourself by name when greeting someone who is visually impaired
  • If someone else is with you or joins you during a conversation, introduce them by name too
  • Use the visually impaired person's name to get their attention before addressing them...
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    Night Light feature in Windows 10 - reduces "blue light"

    If you are concerned about the health impact of "Blue Light" (the light that comes from a PC monitor, tablet, mobile phone, TV), then there is a filter built into Windows 10 that you may wish to enable. 

    Windows 10 has a Night Light setting which gently reduces the monitors blue-tones,...
    Creating accessible images using ALT text

    When adding images to your teaching resources, it is important to add a text description (known as ALT text) so that visually impaired users can still understand what is being shown. 

    Developed by The DIAGRAM Center (Digital Image And Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials), a Benetech...
    Microsoft Immersive reader (accessibility tool)

    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 and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

  • Immersive Reader can help improve comprehension by...
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    Live Captions in Teams

    To use live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and click the ellipses (...) then choose Turn on live captions. 

    To stop using live captions, go to the meeting controls and click the ellipses (...) then choose Turn off live captions. 

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    Built in accessibility options in Windows (Ease of Access Centre)

    The Ease of Access Centre can be found by searching the Start menu (enter ease in the search box)

    Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Windows button + U to access it.

    Commonly used options are also available from login screen via the Ease of Access icon...
    Change the background colour in Word

    Select the Design tab on the ribbon  

    Find the Page Background group  and then Page Colour to see the options

    Select the colour you prefer to work on. You can hover over the colours to test them, or simply keep changing the...
    Have Word read files to you
  • Click on the dropdown arrow next to the Quick Access toolbar and choose More Commands
  • In the dropdown, select All Commands
  • Scroll throught the list to Speak
  • Then select Add to move speak to the right...
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