#728 Microsoft Clip Champ: Text to Speech
The free* Microsoft Clip Champ video editor has some fantastic features, including the Text to Speech facility. In this video, we’ll demonstrate this and also show you how to add it to your videos.
Category: Accessibility
#724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions
Continuing with Clip Champ (we’ll be experts soon!) Adding captions is easy and has the added benefit that it is actually embedded within the video (eg not reliant on the browser or platform that you use). We’ll show you how to add and edit captions – we even throw in a bit of text-to-speech too… Continue reading #724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions
#715 Create a transcript from YouTube using ChatGPT
In this post, we show you how to take a transcript from YouTube and use ChatGPT to remove the line breaks and add punctuation, which saves you the manual task of doing this.
#714 Faster at talking then typing? Try Word online to dictate your feedback!
In this video walk-through, we show you how you can use Word online to dictate your written feedback. Once dictated, you can then copy and paste the feedback into your feedback tool. Perfect for if you prefer talking to typing! You can even set it to do your punctuation automatically too.
#704 Visor: Coloured overlays for reading webpages
Visor is a browser extension that enables you to overlay colours onto webpages and adjust the contrast if you need to for reading purposes. Recently we had a short course with an accessibility requirement to provide materials on pastel-coloured backgrounds. Using Visor in the browser enabled the student to access the online materials without having… Continue reading #704 Visor: Coloured overlays for reading webpages
#703 Install new fonts on Windows
In this video, we show you how to add new fonts on a Windows computer. It’s really easy. You download the font you want and then drag and drop it in Settings.
#692 Burned In Captions in Camtasia
If you have created Closed Captions for your video in Camtasia, but you want the captions to always be visible and cannot be turned off by the viewer, then you have the option to select Burned In Caption. Watch this video to show you how…
#687 Helperbird
Helperbird is a browser extension (available in the Chrome store). It is geared to help with accessibility issues and dyslexia, allowing the user to quickly make adaptations to how text and data are presented on web pages to make it more accessible to people with various data perception difficulties. An easily accessible panel allows you… Continue reading #687 Helperbird
#685 OpenDyslexic Font
OpenDyslexic is an open-source font that you can install on your machine to aid readability. More can be found about it at opendysliexic.org. You can also use a Chrome extension to enable web pages to be formatted in the font.
#679 ChromeVox screen reader
This Chrome browser extension (ChromeVox) allows you to experience web content as a person using a screen reader. It can be used in combination of other extensions such as Reader Mode (see the post here) to simplify the content and make it easier to access. Photo by Max Delsid on Unsplash
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