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Access to digital information should be on the mind of all teachers. This page you will provide you with simple ways to help your students get the information they need from the web.

Access is a basic civil right of all learners. It is the 21st century equivalent of the right that all citizens should have had sit at the Woolworth luncheon counter in Greensboro, NC in the middle of the 20th century.
Steve Wilmarth

Adobe Reader

Any information that is in Acrobat Reader (.pdf can be read to you, enlarged to make it easier to see, and words can be defined with a simple right-click.

Opera Web-Browser

This web-browser can read any text on the screen to you, you can use your voice to navigate, turn on or off images, and change the size of any information on the screen.

Universal Design for Learning

Building accessibility in to courses, from the ground up, allows all students to have access to the tools needed for success.

Using Your Voice in Windows XP

I have used this with several students of varying abilities. Some students needed it because they could not use their hands while others wanted to use it because it was faster than typing. Showing this tool to all students and letting them use it the way they see fit is a big part of Universal Design.

Using AutoSummarize in MicroSoft Word

You can use the AutoSummarize tool to help your students (and you, if you’re like me ) to find the important information in any non-fiction document.