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How many times has your student's class used an online resource that is not accessible for your student who is blind or low vision? For TSVIs, our typical...
Blackboard Ally seamlessly integrates with the Learning Management System (LMS) and automatically generates alternative accessible formats and provides...
There are so many reasons why YOU (and your student!) should know how to check the accessibility of an app with a screen reader. Here are a few of the most...
Zoom meetings have become the "new normal" for businesses and for classes. Scribe for Meetings is a new tool that enables the meeting host to upload PowerPoint...
As we all get ready to go back to school, especially with either the reality or potentiality of teaching virtually from a distance, many of us are having to...
Virtual Graduation
Our school, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, is a residential school like many state schools for the blind and visually...
In times like this in society, the visually impaired community needs a way to remain socially distant yet a way to communicate with people in their daily lives...
This month, HIMS released the BrailleSense Polaris firmware upgrade. Since my students use Google Drive to access and share files, they were highly...
With all the school closures, video conference calls have become the new normal for educators working virtually with students and for educators to connect with...
Using Screen Readers in Google Classrooms
This post is related to a previous post Learning Management Systems in the Age of Pandemic. Our school decided to use...
Learning Management Systems for the BVI in the Age of Pandemic
With the new forced paradigm in this world of distance learning, our school, like almost every...
Since our state has moved to remote learning while all public schools are closed for a minimum of three weeks because of the Coronavirus, students have had to...
Zoom is a leader in accessible video and audio conferencing. With school closures, educators are turning to Zoom as a means to provide virtual instruction....
As a vision teacher/Orientation & Mobility Specialist working for a private non-profit agency, I have had the opportunity to work with several virtual...
A common struggle for students with limited motor skills (gross and/ or fine) is meeting the expectation of using a laptop in a 1:1 Chromebook school. There...
For the last few days, I haven't left my dorm very much. But during that time, I have been able to do the following:
Read a virtual library book on George...
NOTE: Please check out the other two articles in this series:
From a Distance Part 1: Take a Picture it Lasts Longer
From a Distance Part 2: Distance Video...
Yesterday at my internship, I was watching someone set up my computer when I noticed that there appeared to be no icons on my computer's home screen. This...
Sam is a tech support agent at the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk, where he answers calls from customers who are blind or have low-vision calling through the...
Remote Desktop Computer Lab Management Software
When I became a TVI teaching technology, I was assigned a computer lab/classroom, teaching various basic...
NOTE: Please see other posts in this series including
So Many Braille Displays Part Two (focusing on the Brailliant BI 14 model and touching on the Braille...
With the rise and boom of technology has come the rise and boom of e-learning. E-Learning comes in all different shapes and sizes, whether it’s helping school-...
Since the start of my freshman year at my university, I have taken over a dozen online classes- read more about why and how in my post about virtual college...
Post Update: Join.Me is now available on Chromebooks with their new Chrome Extension!
This video demonstrates Join.Me - a screen sharing app - that enables a...
Facebook is a popular free social networking website where people can create profiles, share information, share photos and respond to information posted by...
The other day I was helping a student of mine get her Refreshabraille 18 braille display paired up to her computer. She has used it to pair with her iPhone...
I spend a lot of time on the internet browsing dozens of different websites every day. I read blogs, informative websites, government websites, websites for...
Ever wonder why there are odd behaviors when you use a different web browser? These unexpected behaviors may be frustrating for some screen reader users. How...
K-12 classrooms are embracing technology and are working to overcome accessibility issues associated with digital and online educational materials. While there...
In a previous article on Windows 10 accessibility settings, I alluded to downloading large mouse pointers for Windows 10. This article will expand on that...
My second semester of freshman year in high school (which was in January 2012), I received approval to start using a laptop in the classroom. I had an IEP for...
Welcome to my new series on choosing technology, where I will be sharing my tips on purchasing devices, with a special concentration on students with low...
During my sophomore year of high school, teachers constantly were forgetting to enlarge my assignments (a little more on that here), leaving me to figure out...
Welcome to my new series on choosing technology, where I will be sharing my tips on purchasing devices, with a special concentration on students with low...
Ever since it was first released in 2015, I have found myself using Microsoft Office Sway for many projects in college- at least once every semester. It's...
I remember when Barnes and Noble first announced they would be selling their own eReader, the Nook. The other eReaders on the market at the time had small...
At both high schools I attended, teachers often took a pencil-and-paper approach to learning. It was common for teachers to have students complete paper...
In a typical classroom, the majority of the teacher’s lessons are projected in front of the entire class. This is great! Unless, you are student who has low...
Coding is a lifestyle. In today's digital society there are literally thousands of resources to learn the craft. Whether it be the code that controls the stuff...
Here are settings to enable for the iPad/iPhone to help make the devices easier to use. All are found in the accessibility menu under general settings unless...
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