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What online accessibility tools do you find most helpful?

Here are some of mine

http://www.beelinereader.com  - you can get an edu account

http://www.naturalreaders.com  - Will do closed captioning as well. School can get a free edu account for students to use

Glean https://app.glean.co/  is a note taking app for audio lectures/videos/podcasts It allows you to put notes into the audio as you listen or bookmark a spot, so you can come back to it later

This was provided by my schools disability office so might have a fee

You can get Microsoft 365 free with an edu email. In Word, click on the 'View' tab & they have some amazing accessibility tools

@AmazonKindle eTextbooks that are the same/< $ than paper

On the desktop reader you can highlight, take notes, & generate flashcards. You can change the font to OpenDyslexic & have it read the text (decent voice)

I just wish they gave the option to color the text like beeline

PDFs are a bit hit or miss for me. Usually I will use printouts into OneNote, but I recently found Xodo which has a lot of features I like, especially the natural sounding voice to read it. Highlighting, underlining, adding images, note taking. It's web based or downloadable

Was just shown another tool that institutions can request for their LMS https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/accessibility-universal-design/blackboard-ally-lms#:~:text=Blackboard%20Ally%20is%20a%20revolutionary,digital%20course%20content%20more%20accessible.

Free for a short time is their file convertor #DisabledinSTEM you can use this to convert PDF articles into easier to read @BeeLineReader versions! https://ally.ac/covid19/