Microsoft has many accessibility resources available to all KSD students.

• How to Use Presenter Coach in PowerPoint for the Web (YouTube Video)
• Provide Inclusive Math Tools (Interactive Guide)
• Empower Students with Inclusive Writing Tools (Interactive Guide)

Free Microsoft training sessions are available to all families on a rotating schedule through the KSD Family Tech Academy. Many cover accessibility features and tools.

Immersive Reader is a tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Teams, Flipgrid, and Edge browser, that implement proven techniques to improve reading for people regardless of their age or ability.

• Enable Read Aloud Feature in Microsoft Edge (YouTube Video)
• How to Use the Immersive Reader - Making Reading More Accessible (YouTube Video)
• Immersive Reader in Office Lens (YouTube Video)
• Help Students Read More Effectively (Interactive Guide)

Windows 10 has many accessibility features available to all KSD students.

• Dictation in Windows 10 (YouTube Video)
• Narrator in Windows 10 (YouTube Video)
• Using Magnifier in Windows: At a Glance (YouTube Video)
• How Use the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows 10 (YouTube Video)

Bookshare is an ebook library that makes reading easier. Members can access a huge collection of ebooks and read their way with the most customizable ebooks for people with reading barriers.

Ask your teacher for login access.

• How to Read with Bookshare Web Reader (YouTube Video)

ChooseIt! Maker 3 turns personalized photographs, symbols, text, and sounds into engaging cause and effect or choice-making activities, games, and quizzes.

Ask your teacher for a share code.

• ChooseIt! Maker 3: Award-Winning Educational Curriculum Software (YouTube Video)

As letters are typed, Co:Writer predicts the intended word with a selection of word suggestions using powerful grammar-smart word prediction. These suggestions can be read aloud by moving the cursor over the words.

Co:Writer can only be used with Google Chrome. It’s available on your KSD laptop for immediate installation and login with Microsoft. 

• Don Johnston Learning Academy for Co:Writer
• Find Co:Writer resources on the KSD Digital Learning Toolkit
• Install Co:Writer extension on Google Chrome

Snap&Read Universal reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, images, photographs, PDFs, and more. Snap&Read also adjusts complex text to be more readable and can translate text into over 100 languages. You can even take a picture and have the text within that picture read aloud.

Snap&Read is available on your KSD laptop for immediate installation and login with Microsoft.

• Don Johnston Learning Academy for Snap&Read
• Find Snap&Read resources on the KSD Digital Learning Toolkit
• Install Snap&Read extension on Google Chrome

Tar Heel Reader is a growing library of customizable, accessible, beginning level readers for students of all ages.

Ask your teacher for a registration code.

• Tar Heel Reader (YouTube Video)