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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,...
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...
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.
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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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...
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...
Apple products come with many accessibility features including VoiceOver (screen reader), Dictation (voice for text fields), FaceTime (video communication), and Siri (voice and keyboard interaction with the device).
Apple maintains a comprehensive guide to them:
What is Inspiration 9?
Inspiration software is available on all open access PCs.
Inspiration is used to create mind maps, which can then turn into an outline view or even into a presentation. It may be particularly useful for anyone who has dyslexia or just finds it...
Texthelp Read&Write is available to students and staff.
This literacy software makes the web, documents and files more accessible. It's great for people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, or anyone whose first language isn't English. From reading on-screen...
Both Microsoft and Apple have built in accessibility options that include altering the screen display contrast.
However, if you only want to use high contrast while web browsing you can install an extension to Chrome.
Installing the High Contrast extension in Chrome1. In Chrome,...
The Accessibility Tool in Moodle allows you to set the colour scheme, font style, readability and text size in Moodle. These settings apply only to you and do not affect how anyone else views the pages.
To access the accessibility tools:
SensusAccess automatically converts documents into a range of alternate media including audio books (MP3 and DAISY), e-books (EPUB, EPUB3 and Mobi) and digital Braille. The service can also be used to convert inaccessible documents such as image-only PDF files, JPG pictures and Microsoft...
Dictation
The Dictation feature allows you to speak into your microphone, and Word will convert your speech into text. Here’s how to use it:
Check Your Microphone: Ensure you have a working microphone connected to your computer.
Open Microsoft Word: Launch Microsoft Word and open the...