Presented by Kristine Neuber Quick Introduction Kristine Grady

Presented by Kristine Neuber

Quick Introduction Kristine & Grady

Advantages of Electronic LP • Portable and Invisible • Text-size, font and color contrast adjustable on the fly. • Full color pictures, graphs • Availability of text-to-speech - reduce eye-fatigue - increase reading speed. • Works with existing technology tools

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Software Features to Help Students with Low Vision Appearance Functionality • Text-size (magnification) and font styles • Color and Contrast • Increase space • Masking • Text-to-speech • Highlighting • Notes • Searching • Dictionary • Questions

Large Print or Text-to-Speech? Large Print Text-to-speech • Learning to read/decode words. • Analyzing charts and graphs • Auditory processing difficulties • Reading large amounts of information. • Reading on the bus, in the car, etc • Reading unfamiliar words • Reduce eye fatigue • Non-reader

Microsoft Word • • • Change Background color (contrast) Font Size & Style (ea vs ea) Line spacing Speak Tool (add under options) Text-to-Speech with Voice. Over (Mac)

Text. Help Read & Write • • Highlighting & Masking Note-taking options Text-to-speech Speech maker – Convert text to MP 3

Zoom. Text Magnifier Reader • Magnification • Color Contrast • Masking • Text-to Speech Screen reader capabilities

Adobe Acrobat Pro & Reader • • • Text-to-Speech tool Bookmarks Search Notes/Highlight Typewriter tool for completing worksheets

Mobile Technologies • Built-in Accessibility – – Magnification & Text size Contrast Text-to-speech Braille capabilities with Bluetooth refreshable Braille Displays • Voice. Dream (App) – – Magnification Masking Highlighting Text-to-speech

Questions? Kristine Neuber IT Accessibility Coordinator George Mason University kneuber@gmu. edu Assistive Technology Initiative George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030