50 Minutes of Accessibility https://goo.gl/UJRHxq 50 Minutes of Accessibility --Carolyn Strauch

Mobility Language Vision Control/Touch Hearing Organizational Accessibility: (accessible– easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use…) What does Accessibility mean? It is different for each person. Vision Hearing Control/Touch Organizational ACCESS-- ACCESSIBLE-- ACCESSIBILITY

Accessibility Options Covered Overview iPads and Macs have incredible accessibility features. No wireless needed. Mac and iOS Office works with the computer system it is on. 365 uses the internet. Microsoft Office & 365 Keeps growing. Must use the web/internet for text to speech (so far.) Chromebooks Lots of extensions to help the learner with reading and listening. Google Chrome Some sites can help people with different ideas or grammar...and a few are free. (ie: hemmingwayapp.com) Websites There are small things that can help students and adults, from grips to stands. Sometimes, they can be built... Hardware vs. Software Handicapped icon purchased from Shutterstock. Hemmingway app -- http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ Alt text is located in Format menu when image is clicked upon and it is at the very bottom. You may have to use CTRL - to shrink your page to see it… I could not see it because my page was set at 110% for better visibility.

Apple iPads (and Mac)

iPad iOS 11 -- the Newest Operating System iOS 11 has some new, great features for teachers and students. Did you know: You could record your own screen with a touch of a button? Put Guided Access on a Shortcut Screen? Customize the Shortcut page to include things like a Timer (and the screen recorder?)

Apple-iPads (iOS) -- NOTES PAGE Mac and iOS (this covers iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches), have Accessibility built into every feature of their operating system-- IF you know where to look. iPads→ Look under Settings (the Cog Wheel) and go to General → Accessibility This has a plethora of things you can change and modify for students/adults. Here are some hints: VISION: Voiceover-- only for the Blind. It reads EVERYTHING! Unless you have a truly blind student, you want this off. Zoom literally zooms in on the screen. This is difficult to navigate. You may want the next one. Magnifier! Really good. With this on, they can triple click the Home button and have a magnifying glass. TEACHERS! Hook it up to a large projection screen and you have a wonderful teaching tool! Display Accommodations: This is something I use on my own devices, but is not for everyone. I suffer blinding migraines. Blue light is one of my issues so I can modify the colors emanating from my devices here. SPEECH!!-- REALLY GOOD for many students. Speak Selection allows you to highlight a section and it will read what you lightlight. Total control. You can even turn on highlight content and it acts like the “bouncing ball” and lights up the word it is reading. (It cannot read Kindle…)

Apple iPads (iOS) -- NOTES PAGE 2 Mac and iOS (this covers iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches), have Accessibility built into every feature of their operating system-- IF you know where to look. iPads→ Look under Settings (the Cog Wheel) and go to General → Accessibility This has a plethora of things you can change and modify for students/adults. Here are more hints: INTERACTION SECTION Switch Control: This is for people that have impaired motor control. iPads and Macs can be controlled by actual buttons or “taps” by the user. This is where all of these actions are created and set. Assistive Touch: You can create a button on your iPad or iPhone that gives a shortcut to several different actions or menus. For instance, my son has difficulty double clicking. I can set an Assistive Touch button for double clicking so when he clicks one button it means “double-click now.” Touch Accommodations: This is similar. This can help with timing of double clicks and ignoring too many clicks. Example: my son has tremors in his hands-- one click can be three. I can turn on “ignore repeat” and it will only see one click during a span of a second instead of several.

Apple iPads (iOS) -- NOTES PAGE 3 Mac and iOS (this covers iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches), have Accessibility built into every feature of their operating system-- IF you know where to look. Here are even more hints: GUIDED ACCESS For those of you who know me, you know I am forever discussing Guided Access. Guided Access can lock a student into one app until you release them out of that app. (BE WARNED- if there are links in the app, they will still work.) There is a one-time setup for Guided Access and then it will be ready to use at your convenience. Best Practice tips: if you have a shared cart-- SHARE THE PASSWORD or have a team meeting in the creating of the password. When one person is out and Guided Access is on, you don’t want a useless iPad because no one knows the password. Don’t let the students know the passcode and don’t pick something they can figure out, like the telephone number of the school. Some people have used copier codes...

Add-ons, extensions and Chromebooks Google Add-ons, extensions and Chromebooks

Google Accessibility on a Chromebook has come a long way from just a few years ago. Text to speech in Google Chrome browser and Google Docs Google Accessibility Add-ons for Chrome to help each application or experience better or more differentiated for the user. Type Accessibility in the Chrome Store to get started.

Google Extensions Here are some Google Extensions and Add-Ons that have caught my eye: Large database of apps & extensions: http://www.shakeuplearning.com/chrome-database/

Google

Google Math Apps for Chrome-- blog list

Microsoft Office Client and 365

Microsoft Learning Tools will be on Mac’s Office version soon. Learning Tools in Microsoft. There are two tabs mid-way down. Click to see both versions Word on your desktop and Word Online in the article. https://goo.gl/TMQJQS Learning Tools will be on Mac’s Office version soon. Screen readers do not need wireless on the non-online versions. Office Lens and Seeing AI are their two accessibility apps. Here is a video about Lens and Office. https://goo.gl/N6KZDq

On the Web Platform Agnostic

On the Internet or “Platform Agnostic” Accessibility is an open topic. It is different for each person and each teacher. Kahoot Most of how we teach is auditory and visual for the student. Can we make it verbal? Can they record their answers? Could you Braille the Plicker Card? YES. Make it more comfortable for the visually impaired? YES. Go Formative. Have a place to write on like a Chromebook? Use this online. Use RECAP to have your students explain their answer. The real question is “what are we assessing? Understanding, or grammar and syntax with comprehension?” Sometimes both, but sometimes it is understanding. Can we differentiate those assessments to verbal? Flipgrid, Recap, Notability (app on iOS), screen recorder on iPad, or even ScreenCastify. All methods of recording student work. ReCap or FlipGrid…What about a simple screen recorder?

Hardware And Software

Hardware Don’t forget to check with your own tech department. Many have 3d printers. Maybe a student there is looking for ideas for a project… you never know. (I am referring to the tech-ed, not IT department.) ☺

Any Questions? Thank you! Carolyn Strauch https://goo.gl/UJRHxq Carolyn Strauch Questar III BOCES- carolyn.strauch@questar.org 8:30 & 12:45 Sessions-- DID YOU SIGN IN?