Resources
Our resources web page contains a wealth of information for Assessors, Assistive Technology Professionals, Teachers and End Users.
The range of resource material comes directly from Assistive Technology Professionals and includes background information and research papers. The information provided gives an unbiased and objective opinion on Assistive technology and Accessibility.
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New Research Help Teachers Find The Right Tools To Support Their Learners
Teachers at BETT will be looking for the latest tools for learners with special needs. But as they listen to the competing claims of different companies, how will they decide which of their pupils might benefit from the various writing aids?
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Supportive Writing Technology
Speech recognition systems have been used by people with disabilities for several years. They have proved effective for writers who have problems with a standard keyboard because of arthritis, repetitive strain injury, or spinal injury. They have also been used by writers with reading or spelling difficulties, and visual impairment.
Speech recognition programs usually need some training before they can be used productively, and the training involves reading a relatively large amount of complex text, so it is only suitable for good, motivated readers.
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PDF and Accessibility
PDF does a great job for what it is designed to do: it describes what should be printed on paper. It was invented so that people creating documents on the new desktop publishing technology in the 1980s and 1990s could send them to printers and have them appear as they intended – font, colours, layout.
So PDF works in terms of pages, and what images and text goes where on each page. It has no idea of things like headings, or columns, or chapters, or words or sentences.
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Accessible Resources Pilot Project
Dyslexic pupils benefited most from using text to speech software, both for reading and writing. The software was able to read MS Word documents and accessible web pages directly. 74% changed the settings on their computers, most changing the font size, the colour background or using highlighting of text as it is read out loud.
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Please note: this article was written by mytextbook.org
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