Seven Awesome Accessibility Tools

 

There are plenty of tools for Accessibility

There are plenty of helpful accessibility tools that are available online to help people who might need extra support when navigating online spaces. But in this blog post, I'm going to highlight 7 awesome tools that I think can be really helpful. 

Seven Accessibility Tools:

    1. Easy Reader: This accessibility tool is from the Stockton accessibility toolbox. This tool is used for people who might have visual impairment or dyslexia. This app allows you to customize the size of the text and makes texts more accessible. 

    2. Screen Readers: The way this tool works is that it will read back the information to you. This tool can be very helpful for people who are visually impaired and can be a great tool to help them navigate computers or their phones. There are a couple of different names for this tool, depending on your device, like Voice Over, JAWS, and NVDA, to name a few.

    3. Vision Assist: This tool is used to magnify, which allows people to zoom in and make the text bigger. This tool is used to help people who have impaired/ low vision. This app is also found in Stockton's accessibility toolbox.

    4. Grammarly: This app is an awesome tool to help with spelling and grammar. Grammarly is an app that is a really helpful writing aid; it helps rewrite text to help with writing clarity, and provides suggestions that replace a word with a better one. But one thing I think is really cool is that this app also helps with the tone of your writing; you can even customize what tone you want your writing to have. This tool could be helpful for people who have learning disabilities. 

    5. Captions: This tool can be really helpful for people who might have trouble hearing. This tool is helpful because it allows people to watch and understand a video, as the captions are automatically generated and can be translated into a different language. Captions can be found on any video. 

    6.  Speech to text: This tool allows people to write and edit, but with their voice. It allows them to transfer their thoughts by just speaking into their device, which then writes it for them. On Apple devices, it is called Apple dictation, and for Windows, it's called Windows Voice Typing.  There is also an app that does this, which I found in the Stockton toolbox called Dragon Dictation (Dragon NaturallySpeaking).

    7. Mindly: This is another app that can be found in Stockton's toolbox for accessibility tools. This app helps organize your thoughts and helps create projects or speeches. It also helps take notes. This app is pretty cool because it helps keep you organized and focused.