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Chromebooks are great educational tools due to their small size, low price, and general ease of use. They also come packed with accessibility features. In this guide, we’re going to look at how to enable and use these features, as well as provide users with some handy keyboard shortcuts. How to Open Accessibility Settings First,…

Non-verbal girl living with cerebral palsy, learning to use digital tablet device to communicate. People who have difficulty developing language or using speech use speech-generating devices.

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) apps are great tools for students with speech, language, and communication difficulties, autism, as well as for students with a variety of mobility challenges. These apps have also become much more common in recent years, where 10 years ago dedicated AAC hardware was much more common. Among the growing number…

Teacher assisting a female student using a laptop during class

For many students with diverse learning needs, traditional news sources can present significant barriers. News2you, developed by Everway, addresses this challenge by delivering accessible, curriculum-connected news content designed specifically for students who benefit from additional literacy and communication supports. News2you transforms weekly world and community news into engaging, student-friendly materials that support a wide range…

There are lots of great reading apps on the market that are designed to offer alternative approaches to accessing digital text. In fact, the app that we are looking at today is essentially the Android version of one of our favourites, Voice Dream Reader. Legere Reader is a reading app designed to support people who…

Young man helping grandfather with smartphone

We’ve looked at task management and to-do list apps in the past, but we haven’t spent a lot of time looking at apps that are designed to promote independent living. CanPlan was designed specifically with people who have cognitive challenges in mind, offering a way to complete everyday activities by breaking them down into clear,…

Category: Apps

How to: Enable and Use Chromebook Accessibility Tools

SymbolStix Prime: An AAC App by Everway

News2you: An Accessible News App

Legere Reader

CanPlan Task Management