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Dexteria

An iPad App https://youtu.be/qqvtvBn3hzU Dexteria is a set of therapeutic hand exercises that improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults. The exercises take advantage of the multi-touch interface to help build strength, control, and dexterity. • Increases coordination and motor control in the hands and fingers• Works for kids and adults• …

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Flipgrid

A free tool available on Chrome https://youtu.be/lfB4c701Pj8 Flipgrid allows students to record simple videos or audio explaining their understanding. Teachers can give private feedback or public peer feedback is also an option. Top Tips and Links Top Tip Use the mixtape option to create a highlight reel of great examples Download & Learn More Click …

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Color Overlay

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/6F8wSqfRT0I Once installed, this great extension allows students to choose a colour for a screen overlay that appears on all pages, websites and docs to make it easier for them to view content Top Tips and Links Top Tip Students can choose the exact colour that best suits them and even get …

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High Contrast

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/uIFdKV3_NU8 High Contrast is really useful for anyone that has difficulties with the readability of web pages or who would like to reduce strain on their eyes. With this extension you can change or invert the colour schemes of the web pages to aid in the ease of reading text.For example. instead …

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Caret Browsing

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/1v71qsZDk8A This extension allows your to navigate through a webpage using your keyboard instead of a touchpad or mouse. You can select and move through text, move the cursor one word at a time and select blocks of text using keyboard shortcuts. When you are on the page you would like to …

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Mercury 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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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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