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Zoom

A free Google tool https://youtu.be/b49C7uLz2oM Zoom is a lightweight and useful extension designed to get a perfect zoom experience for users with visual needs. Once installed, the extension allows you to very simply zoom in or out on an entire webpage of content using the zoom button and mouse scroll wheel for more comfortable reading […]

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Postlight Reader

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/rUzrzfuFOV0 Mercury Reader is a very clever extension that clears away all the clutter from webpages and articles, instantly. The Mercury Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site. After adding the extension, when a user is

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Read Aloud

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/Jz7VnV86rY8 With the Read aloud extension, a user can literally choose to read aloud text content with one click, using text to speech technology. Supporting over 40 languages, Read Aloud converts webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites such as news sites, blogs and publications and with the

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Open Dyslexic Font

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/2MmQPL675oc Open-Dyslexic is an open sourced font that has been created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The Chrome wide extension overrides all fonts on web pages with the OpenDyslexic font, and formats pages to be more easily readable. In the Extensions toolbar, clicking the Open Dyslexic logo will provide you

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Crafty Cursor

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/VCPsDMratIo When installed and enabled, Crafty Cursor is a Chrome extension that allows a user to highlight their on screen cursor, so that if somebody with a visual impairment was viewing, the cursor is very easily tracked. Whether you are delivering face to face and presenting on a large display device such

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nOverlay

A free Google tool https://youtu.be/3KtWKHy7tQM nOverlay is a Google Chrome extension that adds a colored overlay to web pages you view, reducing the black-text-white-background glare that severely hinders the ability of people with dyslexia to read. It can also aid those who have a light sensitivity or even people who simply don’t like bright white

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VoiceOver

A default iPad function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONE23RreZ8Q Voiceover is an award winning, revolutionary, screen reading feature developed for blind or visually impaired users. Whilst in the iPad’s Settings and by then navigating to the Accessibility folder, you will find these accessibility features. When voiceover is enabled, the feature interacts with objects within apps so users can drive

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Voice Control

A default iPad function https://youtu.be/FqOayOqmYQU Voice Control is a relatively new accessibility feature that arrived on iOS 13. It lets you speak commands to your iPhone or iPad to do just about anything. From launching apps, adjusting volume, editing text, restarting your iPad, and many more commands, you can do it all with just your

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Spoken Content

A default iPad function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6p2MPx-LOk&t=1s For those with low or no vision or even learners who struggle with Literacy/Comprehensions, reading text on an iPad (or iPhone) can be difficult at best, if not downright impossible. The “Spoken Content” functionality can help.  It’ll help a user by reading out words on a page or reading out

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