Telepresence Robots, Assistive Tech, and Accessibility Checkers

This session will start with a demo of a robot named Cosmo and then provide an overview of assistive technology tools that can be utilized by students, including voice recognition software and text-to-speech apps. Video-captioning options in YouTube will be demonstrated, along with different tools to help check if documents and web pages are set up properly to work well with assistive technology software.

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Resources:

Accessibility Tools and ResourcesGoogle Accessibility

• Products and Features -  https://www.google.com/accessibility/products-features.html
• Voice Typing in Google Docs -  https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226
• Making Google Docs Accessible -  https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6199477

YouTube Video CC

• Add your own subtitles and closed captions -  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

Windows Speech Recognition

• Commands for Windows 10 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12427/windows-speech-recognition-commands

Microsoft Mouse Keys

• Turn on and use Mouse Keys - https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000542.htm

Dragon Naturally Speaking

• Cheat sheet reference guide - http://supportcontent.nuance.com/kbfiles/16477-dns13commandcheatsheet.pdf
• Automatic Punctuation (commas and periods) à http://www.nuance.com/landing-pages/dragon/dns-tutorial/enx/scx/professional/dictation/automatic.htm

Office Accessibility Checker

• Make your Word documents accessible - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Make-your-Word-documents-accessible-d9bf3683-87ac-47ea-b91a-78dcacb3c66d

Adobe Accessibility Checker

• Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro DC) - https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html

Web Page Accessibility Checker

• WAVE Web Accessibility Tool à http://wave.webaim.org/

iPad Accessibility

• https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ipad/

Add Alt Text to Image on Weebly Website

• https://www.scribd.com/document/333735409/adding-an-alt-text-to-weebly  

Session 3
1:00 to 2:30 PM

Presenter:
Chris Olson
Dakota State University
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