#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.
Tag: Accessibility
#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
#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…
#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
#675 Reader mode: Text to speech
This is a follow up post to #671 – Reader mode: for simplified reading of web pages. This post looks at further ability within the browser extension that enables text to speech. You can choose various languages adjust the speed it reads or the pitch of the voice. Photo by Reimond de Zuñiga on Unsplash
#671 Reader Mode [1/2]: Simplify web page text
This Chrome extension enables you to 1-click simplify web pages to make them more readable. If you have colour perception difficulties, you can quickly and easily adjust the colour palette to suit your needs. It is available as a Chrome extension at the Chrome Webstore Photo by Islander Images on Unsplash
#667 Accessibility: Colour contrast analyser
This utility is available for Mac and PC, although it has more functionality on the PC version. It enables you to check documents, websites and any screen-based media to see if they pass contrast thresholds for accessibility. It is available to download for free from TPGi. There is also a colour blindness simulation on sampled… Continue reading #667 Accessibility: Colour contrast analyser
#659 Readability: Is my text audience appropriate?
I am often a waffler. I can overly complicate my writing which occasionally can make the meaning somewhat blurry and indistinct….See what I mean! Often for students we need to make our communication clear and direct. So they know what is expected of them. Often we should make assessment instructions as clear as possible. Fortunately… Continue reading #659 Readability: Is my text audience appropriate?
#654 Microsoft OneNote Accessibility Checker
In this video I’ll demonstrate the accessibility checker within Microsoft One note – it’s a quick, handy easy-to-use tool.
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