Accessibility tools for disabled students
1. Handsfree for Web - Voice Control
Browse the web using just your voice, navigating the web handsfree. There are hundreds of commands supported, everything you can do manually with the mouse and keyboard now you can do it just by talking to the computer.
2. LipSurf - Voice Control for the Web
Control the browser with your voice instead of your hands. Use speech recognition to fill forms, open tabs, click links etc!
Speech recognition for executing commands in the browser that would normally require a mouse and keyboard.
3. Speech Recognition Anywhere
Use Voice Recognition to fill out forms and dictate email with speech to text. Control the Internet with custom voice commands!
4. VoiceNote II - Speech to text
Typing with your voice and speech recognition.
5. ChromeVox – Giving Voice to Chrome
The ChromeVox screen reader is an extension to Chrome that brings the speed, versatility, and security of Chrome to visually impaired users.
A free and open source screen reader that has a synthetic voice that reads whatever the cursor hovers over.
7. Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
Read out loud the current web-page article with one click. Supports 40+ languages.
8. Speak It: Convert text into Speech
Speak It app converts text into speech on any websites in six supported languages. Select words or paragraphs and then right click on this text to listen.
Text to speech with natural sounding voices. Supports PDF, Word, ebooks, Webpages...And You Can Save it as Notes
It helps you to zoom easily in and out on web content using the zoom button and mouse scroll wheel for more comfortable reading.
11. High Contrast
High Contrast lets you browse the web with your choice of several high-contrast color filters designed to make it easier to read text.
12. Dark Reader
This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night.
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13. Volume Master
The simplest and most reliable volume booster, up to 600% volume boost.
14. Skyload - Music and video downloader
Skyload is a web-browser add-on which allows you to download of music and videos from popular social networks services in one-click and absolutely for free.
15. Read&Write for Google Chrome
This tool offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
- Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
- Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
- With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
- Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
- Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
- Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
- Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting
Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial.
16. ImTranslator: Translator, Dictionary, Text-to-Speech
ImTranslator translates selected text, words (Dictionary), phrases, and webpages between more than 100 languages using 3 translation providers:
Google, Microsoft Bing and other translators. It allows you to listen to the translation as well as to the original text in ImTranslator Pop-up Bubble.
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17. Get SHARE.it
A fantastic application that can complete transferring files between devices in seconds! Cellular data free! Genuine multi-platform!
Last modified: Sunday, August 27, 2023, 7:30 PM