Crystal Laurent, Teresa Mcculloch, Bryce Robinson

Review the accessibility tools in this lesson for Windows, MAC, and Chrome. I have only discussed a few here. Give a brief explanation of what each tool can do
and how you would use them on a Windows, Mac, and/or Chrome Device. WORK TOGETHER by Each CONTRIBUTING to the chart. You can each do a tool,
or you can all contribute to each tool.
Create a comparison chart with a minimum of 10 accessibility features available for each operating system- Microsoft Windows, Apple MAC, and Google Chrome.
Make sure to save in your portfolio. As well, each person should download the document and submit it in Canvas for this lesson. I will check this document to track
collaboration.
Describe in a few sentences what feature is available. Here is an example of what you might create. You may use this example or create your own table.
Accessibility How Can it Be Windows MAC Chrome Person
Tools Accessible/Defin (Describe how it Responsible
e works in
Windows/Where
is it located?)

Mouse Control and Touchpad: touch Trackpads: touch Touchpad: touch sensitive Crystal
navigate the sensitive surface sensitive surface that surface that moves the cursor
computer that moves the moves the cursor around, mouse controls can
cursor around, around, one button/two also be adjusted
students can use button that can be
dowel with touch adjusted for main
Touchpad/Mouse:
sensitive end or functions
fingers to move At the bottom right, select the
cursor; one time. Select Settings, click on
Magic Mouse: Device, select Touchpad and
button/two button
that can be From the Apple menu, mouse, Change how your
adjusted for main choose System touchpad works:
functions Preferences, select Turn tap-to-click on or off
Accessibility. Turn on tap dragging
In the left sidebar, Swap your primary mouse
Type Settings in select Mouse & button, if you use a mouse
Search, Choose Trackpad. Adjust how quickly your
Devices, Choose To adjust your mouse pointer moves by moving the
Mouse or or trackpad's double- sliders next to "Touchpad
Touchpad, click speed, adjust the speed" or "Mouse speed"
Choose primary slider, To adjust your Choose type of scrolling:
button, how many mouse or trackpad's Traditional (swipe up to move
lines to scroll, or scrolling speed, click page down) or Australian
related settings. the Trackpad Options (swipe up to move page up)
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Choose Related or Mouse Options

Settings, Choose button,
double-click Use the slider to adjust
speed, primary the scrolling speed of
button, or click your device, enable or
lock to highlight or disable scrolling for
drag without your mouse or trackpad
holding the mouse using the checkbox.

Touchpad:
Type Settings
into search bar,
Click Devices,
Choose
Touchpad,
Choices are
sensitivity and
enabling touchpad
buttons

Text Options Text can be Users can control Users can choose what Users can choose the text Bryce
enlarged for better the size of the text font size to display on size for visual display or use
visual accessibility on their screens all text on screen text-to-speech to have text
or the text on the Start button > Apple menu > read to the user
screen can be Settings > Ease System Preferences,
read to the user of Access > click Accessibility, Text Size: Select time > click
Display > Make then click font size Settings > Advanced > click
text bigger to Accessibility > click Manage
make just the text accessibility features >
User can choose to
on your screen Choose Display > Choose
have the text on the
larger OR select text size
screen read
an option from the
drop-down menu Speech-to-text: Choose
under Make Apple menu > System Speech-to-text: Select time >
everything Preferences, click click Settings > Advanced >
bigger to change Accessibility, then click Accessibility > click
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the size of click Speech > choose Manage accessibility

everything on your Text to Speech > features > Choose Display >
screen. select Speak selected Choose Enable ChromeVox
text when the key is
pressed
Users can
choose the rate,
volume and voice
to have text on the
screen read to
them
Speech-to-text:
Start menu >
settings > Time
and Language >
Speech

Speech Use verbal Users can control Users can use Users can use speech to text Bryce
commands to the computer dictation to navigate the to have the computer type
control computer entirely with their computer with only what the user is saying
or type voice voice commands or use Users must find an “add-on”
Control Panel > their speech to type such “Read&Write” and click
Ease of Access > texts “Add to Chrome”
Speech Apple menu > System Once enabled: Open a google
Recognition > Preferences > doc > Click on Read&Write
click Start Keyboard > Dictation. icon > click on headset with
Speech Turn on Dictation, then mic picture in tool bar >
recognition select “Use Enhanced begin speaking
Dictation.”

Speech to text:
Start button > All
Programs >
Accessories >
Ease of Access >
Windows Speech
Recognition >
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click the
Microphone
button to start the
listening mode.
Open the program
you want to use or
select the text box
you want to
dictate text into.
Say the text that
you want dictate.

Contrast/Color This feature is Select the Start Choose Apple, System At the bottom right, select Bryce
used for students button, then Preferences, Universal the time. Or press Alt +
with visual select Settings > Access. Shift + s.
impairments or Ease of Access >
blindness. The
1. Select the Click Settings .
High contrast.
purpose of the Seeing pane.
● Turn on To reverse the At the bottom, click
contrast/color is to
the toggle display and Advanced.
met the required
level of
under Use show white text
high In the "Accessibility"
contrast/color in on a black section, click Manage
documents for contrast.
background, accessibility features.
these students Then,
choose the
with disabilities to choose a Turn on high contrast
“White on
see. Using this theme mode
black” option. ...
feature allows the from the
student to see drop-down To switch to the
files, folders, menu. “White on
program names, You can black” option
and other customize using the
documents on the colors for keyboard, use
display screen. things like the following
This will continue links and shortcut:
as the student button Command +
uses programs on
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that specific text. When Option +

computer. you're Control + 8.
done,
select
Apply.
● To turn off
high
contrast
mode,
switch off
the toggle
under Use
high
contrast.
● To turn
high
contrast
mode on
or off from
the sign-in
screen,
select the
Ease of
access
button in
the lower-
right
corner,
then turn
on the
toggle
under
High
Contrast.
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● To turn
high
contrast
on or off
from the
keyboard,
press left
Alt + left
Shift +
Print
Screen.

Handedness/R Keyboard and This allows you to You can use dwell 1. Attach mouse to your Bryce
T LFT mouse features see and control which allows you to use chromebook.
are used to the mouse pointer eye or head tracking 2. Sign into your
accommodate both better.Windows technology to make chromebook
dominant hand keyboards place mouse actions such as 3. Click the status area
people. There are the Ctrl, windows left, right, double, or (the area where your
one and two click logo, and alt keys drag and drop clicks. google account image
mouses you can on both sides of Mac keyboards have appears)
switch to cater to the spacebar. command and option 4. Click on settings icon
your preferred keys located at both or press ‘Tab’ until it is
Press the
hand and sides of the spacebar. highlighted and press
windows logo
keyboards that According to our ‘Enter’
key>
have multiple keys textbook, this Apple 5. Under the ‘Device’
Click the Settings section click on the
on both sides of mouse is called an
icon> Touchpad and mouse
the spacebar to Apple Magic Mouse
accommodate Select the Ease of that can be a one or settings button
people. This is Access > two button mouse. 6. Click the checkbox
good for students Under Interaction next to ‘swap’ primary
1. On your
with disabilities select Mouse> mouse button
Mac, choose
who cannot control 7. Click ‘OK’ or press
Click the button to Apple menu
one hand or have ‘Enter’ to confirm
Turn on the 8. When your happy with
more strength in a Mouse keys to > your settings click the
certain hand. use the numeric System ‘X’ close button at the
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keypad to move Preferences, top of the widow or

the mouse click press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘w’ to
pointer. Accessibility, close the window
then click
Keyboard.
2. Click
Accessibility
Keyboard,
then make
sure Enable
Accessibility
Keyboard is
selected.
3. For
information
about the
Accessibility
Keyboard
options, click
the Help
button

in the
lower right
corner of the
pane.
4. Click
Options, click
Dwell, then
select “Allow
Dwell actions
toolbar in
panels” or
“Show dwell
actions in
menu bar,”
or both.
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5. Depending
on the
checkboxes
you selected,
a Dwell
toolbar
appears
across the
top of the
Accessibility
Keyboard
and custom
panels, or a
Dwell status
menu
appears in
the menu
bar, or both.
You can also turn on
these options from the
Accessibility Keyboard.
In the top-right corner of
the keyboard, click the
Panel Options button

, choose Dwell,
then choose an option.

On Screen Places an Press the The accessibility You can use on screen Bryce
Keyboard interactive image ‘Windows’ logo > keyboard is an on- keyboard to accent letters if
on the monitor Click the ‘Explore screen keyboard that you write in a different
which allows all settings’ icon> allows you to use language, type text by
students to select typing suggestions, speaking, handwriting text if
Click the ‘Ease of
a key by moving enter alternate you use a touchpad, and other
Access’ or tab to
the mouse to the characters of different features.
it with tab key>
languages, simplifying
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desired key by Under Interaction text, or using dwell as a Sign in to your Chromebook.
hovering over it. select Keyboard> pointer 1. At the bottom right,
Then turn on the choose Apple menu select the time.
on-screen
2. Tap Settings .
keyboard with > System 3. At the bottom, tap
your mouse. Preferences, click or click Advanced.
Accessibility, click 4. Under
Keyboard, click "Accessibility," tap
Accessibility Keyboard, Manage
then select Enable accessibility
Accessibility Keyboard. features.
5. Under "Keyboard,"
tap Enable on-
screen keyboard.

Magnification Enlarges what’s Windows 10 Mac (iOS) allows the Google Chrome allows users Crystal
on the screen to Magnifier lets you user to enlarge the to enlarge the page, parts of a
allow users with make part or all screen to increase screen or the whole screen,
visual impairments the screen bigger visual access and choose the magnification
to see so that you can level
see images and
Press Fn-Option-
words better
Command- For page:
Type Control F5(shortcut) to bring up Ctrl-+ to enlarge, Crtl-Minus
Panel in the Accessibility to decrease, Ctrl-0 to reset
search bar, click Options> click on the
on Control Panel, box next to Enable For whole screen resolution:
Select Ease of Zoom Crtl-shift-+ to enlarge, Crtl-
Access>Click on shift-minus to decrease, Crtl-
Appearance and shift-0 to reset
Personalization
Magnify whole screen:
on the left hand
side>Click on Alt-shift-S>choose
Accommodate settings>at the bottom click
low vision under Advanced>in the
Ease of Access “Accessibility” section, click
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Center Manage Accessibility

links>Scroll down features>under “Display”, turn
to Make things on Enable Fullscreen
on the screen Magnifier
larger>Click on
the square next to
Turn on
Magnifier to
activate
Closed Text displayed on In Windows, the In Apple OS, the user No closed caption Crystal
Captioning TV or other visual user can choose can choose default, accessibility features were
display to provide the caption color, classic, or large text as found.
information about style, options for closed
what is happening transparency, captions
or being said size, effects,
without the need of background color, Choose Apple menu >
sound background System Preferences,
transparency, then click
window color, and Accessibility> Select
window Captions in the
transparency sidebar> Select "Prefer
closed captions and
Select the Start
SDH":
button, then
select Settings
> Ease of
Access >
Closed
captions.

Immersive Recites text out Immersive Immersive Reader for Google Docs has a screen Crystal
Reader (Word) loud while Reader for Mac allows the user to reader that reads aloud text
highlighting Windows allows choose the column on the screen called
individual words; the user to have width, page color, text ChromeVox. There is also a
can change word the content read spacing, syllabication, Google Chrome add-on called
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character, and line aloud to them with and have the text read Read&Write that enables the
spacing for easier options to break aloud reader to have the text read
readability the words into aloud highlighting words as it
syllables, adjust reads, define words
On Word for Mac:
text size or highlighted using a regular or
background colors View>Learning picture dictionary, translate
Tools>Immersive words on the page, highlight
Reader with different colors, create a
On Microsoft
vocabulary list, and make
Word: go to
voice notes
View>Learning
Tools>Immersive
Reader After enabling Read&Write:
Click on the purple puzzle
piece in the toolbar, highlight
the text you want read, click
the play button.

Screen Reader: ctrl+alt+z

Braille A system of raised In Braille for Macbooks use braille Chromebooks require the Crystal
dots that can be Windows, users with VoiceOver where user to use a USB braille
read by people can choose users can plug in or device which will activate
who are blind or language sync, converting ChromeVox where the use
visually impaired input/output, table between braille and text can choose literary or
type input/output, is immediate, supports computer braille, turn captions
notification more than one braille on/off, change how captions
timeout, and how display at a time, and and braille show, change
cursor is shows braille and text number of rows/columns in
displayed at the same time captions, and turn word
wrapping off.

Windows>setting Settings>accessibility
>Ease of >VoiceOver>Braille Ctrl+alt+Z to enable
Access>Narrator ChromeVox>search+a+b
>”Use Braille” turns on braille captions,
search+ .(period) to open
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menu>you’ll see commands

for keyboard, shortcuts, and
jump commands

Diction/Speec Example:The Windows Speech Dictation lets you talk Type with your voice. Collier
h Recognition ability of a Recognition lets where you would type. Dictation turns your Google
computer to you control your Choose Apple menu > Chrome into a speech
identify and PC with your System Preferences, recognition app.
respond to the voice alone, click Keyboard, then Get a Chrome Extension at
sounds produced without needing a click Dictation. https://chrome.google.com/we
in human speech. keyboard or
bstore/detail/voice-
mouse.
recognition/ikjmfindklfaonkodb
Type Control nidahohdfbdhkn?hl=en
Panel in the
search box on the
taskbar, and
select Control
Panel. Then
select Ease of
Access > Speech
Recognition.