The Assistive Technology Edition
@ Your PSMS Library Media Center Volume 2: Issue 6
Increasing Access for All with Google's Assistive Technology
Chrome Extension--Grammar and Spelling Checker by Ginger
Select and Speak Chrome Extension
Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page. Watch the demo here.
Just Read Chrome Extension
Read&Write for Google Chrome
Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home! Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles. Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research
- Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
- Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
- With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
- Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
- Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
- Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
- Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting
Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome.
To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/
after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial.
The Scrible Toolbar
- Annotate articles with multiple styles (highlight, bold, underline, etc.) and colors to flag critical passages.
- Capture your insights by adding sticky notes that anchor to particular parts of articles.
- Categorize your annotations by type and color with dynamic legends that give meaning to your markups.
- Easily share your annotated articles with others via email, Facebook, Twitter or a permalink.
- Tag and save articles to your own personal Library in the cloud for easy access later.
- Notify you when you’re on a webpage you previously annotated and prompt you to load your previous annotations.
- Automatically load your most recent annotations while you browse the Web.
The PSMS Library--Jodie Priess Sanders
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