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Opening Doors: Accessibility for Learners

This collection of accessibility resources is designed to help educators create inclusive learning environments for all students. Whether you're working with students who have hearing impairments, learning differences, or other diverse needs, these carefully curated materials will help you adapt your teaching methods and curriculum delivery to ensure every learner can participate and succeed. Make these resources your go-to reference as you work to remove barriers and create opportunities for all students to thrive!

Grades 4-12

Creatability- Experiments with Google

Use AI and innovative interfaces to make creative expression more inclusive, particularly for individuals with disabilities. Tools include music-making with gestures, visual art generation through voice input, interactive storytelling, and others.

Grades K-12

230+ Accessibility Improvements Added to Book Creator

Learn about Book Creator’s many accessibility features. Highlights include dictation support for over 120 languages, video captions, transcripts for audio recordings, and features that enhance color contrast to make reading more accessible for everyone.

Grades K-12

Headliner

Convert podcasts into YouTube videos and automatically transcribe the audio into captions. This resource provides options for making your videos more accessible to individuals with hearing impairments and to multilingual learners.

Grades K-12

Immersive Reader

Immersive Reader dictates text and offers several options for personalization. Use the options to adjust the playback speed, highlight text during the audio reading, and adjust text size and spacing. Click on any word to hear the pronunciation.

Grades K-8

Reading Coach

Combine AI and gamification to help students enhance their reading fluency and comprehension through personalized practice. There are eight levels, ranging from beginner to more advanced texts, for more than 100 languages.

Grades K-12

BeeLine Reader Collection

Find downloadable PDFs of more than 100 story passages that use BeeLine Reader technology to highlight and wrap text to improve focusing and tracking while reading. Use these leveled reading passages from Reading is Fundamental for multiple grades.

Grades K-12

Speechify

Speechify uses AI to convert text to speech and works for many different formats, including web pages, PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, emails, and texts. The free plan offers a choice of ten voices and allows limited options for controlling text speed.

Grades 2-12

Bookshare: Books without Barriers

Access free books, newspapers, and magazines using adaptive technology. After a free registration (available to participants with documented limited vision), members can download materials for text-to-speech tools, braille access devices, and more.

Grades K-12

ResponsiveVoice

ResponsiveVoice (formerly known as Text2VoiceOver) is a user-friendly tool that enables you to add voiceovers to any YouTube video or video file from your computer. Use this feature to explain a video in more than 15 different voices and 13 languages.

Grades K-12

Magic School

Magic School serves as a powerful accessibility tool that can transform the educational experience for students. You can generate multiple versions of the same content or assignment at different levels and in various languages with read-aloud options.

Grades 1-12

Natural Reader

NaturalReader is a text-to-speech program that offers many language and voice options. Upload documents, copy and paste text, add scanned photos or screenshots, or listen to the contents of webpages.

This Week at TeachersFirst

We invite you to attend our OK2Ask and Google Mania workshops this week! We’re also sharing our Infusing Technology Blog. Read the details below!