Google+Chrome+Accessibility



=Supporting Struggling Learners in Chrome website created by a fellow Assistive Technology Consultant from Illinois with tabs on: //Accessibility on a Chromebook, Reading Tasks, Writing Tasks, Executive Functioning Tasks, and additional resources//= Description || Evernote Web Clipper is the best way to remember all of the great stuff you see online. Forget about bookmarks and open tabs, save the actual web page - text, links, images and all with a single click. ||
 * Google Extensions Available in Web Store || [[image:apsassistivetechnologyresources/chrome web store.jpg width="81" height="81" align="left"]]
 * **AppWriter Cloud** || Assistive speech-and-language components, word prediction, text-to-speech. ||
 * **Doctopus** || Teachers can manage documents of students. Each student must have a gmail/google docs account ||
 * **ChromeVox**
 * ChromeSpeak** || ChromeVox is a screen reader for Chrome which brings the speed, versatility, and security of Chrome to visually impaired users. ||
 * **ChromeVis** || This extension magnifies any selected text on a webpage. The magnified text is displayed inside of a separate lens and preserves the original page layout. You can change both the lens text color and the lens background color. ||
 * **ChromeShades** || Simply install the Chrome extension and everything in your browser is reformatted as text-only, organized more like how a blind user would perceive the page with a screen reader. Your page should still be totally functional - you can still click on links, buttons, and other controls. Don't just look at the page - test workflows just like you'd test the app normally. ||
 * **JAWS and NVDA** || Blind and visually impaired users can use Google Drive on the web with JAWS and NVDA on the Windows platform. Here are some of the ways that you can use Google Drive with your screen reader: Navigate Google Drive ,Download a doc, file, or folder,Upload a doc, file, or folder, Share a doc, file, or folder, Organize files into folders ||
 * **Evernote**
 * Evernote Clipper** || Use the Evernote extension to save things you see on the web into your Evernote account. It even lets you search through your notes.
 * **Ginger** || Install and watch your spelling typos, grammar errors and misused words disappear from your Chrome browser in one simple click. Ginger proofreads your writing in popular websites such Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others. ||
 * **Smooth Gestures** || This Mouse Gesture extension allows you to move the mouse while holding the right mouse button to trigger actions, such as page navigation or tab management. Supports click-and-drag (mouse gesture), click-and-scroll (scroll gesture), click-and-click (rock gesture), and keyboard shortcuts. ||
 * **Read&Write for Google** || Make Google Apps for Education accessible for those with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, or English Language Learners. Includes read aloud with dual-color highlighting, word prediction, translator, talking and picture dictionaries, fact finder, highlighters and collect highlights, vocabulary builder, annotations, navigational tools ||

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__Google Chrome Extensions:__ In short, you have to both "enable" and "activate" the extension.
 * Open Chrome's Extensions page (on a Chromebook: click icon with three horizontal lines at far right of menu bar, then go to More Tools > Extensions).
 * Make sure "Enabled" is checked for the extension.
 * Scroll to bottom of Extensions page and click "Configure Commands" (lower right).
 * Find AppWriter and enter a shortcut to "Activate the extension" (which means to turn it on so you have access to its features). To avoid co-opting another extension's shortcut, choose something with two modifier keys like "Control + Shift + (some key)".

ATbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help users customize the way they view and interact with web pages. The concept behind ATbar is simple: One toolbar to provide all of the functionality you would usually achieve through the use of different settings or products.
 * Separate Programs || Web Address || Description ||
 * **eType ** || www.etype.com || Word prediction, spell check, alternate phrases and translation can be used in Google Docs. ||
 * **Bookshare Web Reader ** || https://www.bookshare.org/portal/solution/first-time-reader || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read books directly from your Internet browser without having to download files or install special reading tools. You must have an Individual Membership to use this feature. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CruxLight ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">www.cruxlight.com || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Automatically summarizing the article and highlighting summary on page. It also gives you the important keywords around which the whole article revolves. You can select a particular keyword and view the summary from that point-off-view. Not only this, you can change the length of the summary on basis level of information required and time to hand. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ATBar ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">www.atbar.org || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ATbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help users customize the way they view and interact with web…

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, have text read aloud and spell check forms. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers. There are three versions of the ATbar toolbar. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Webspiration Classroom ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">www.webspirationclassroom.com || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brainstorm, develop ideas and express your thinking with visual mapping techniques such as webs, bubble diagrams, concept maps and idea maps. Use Webspiration Classroom's powerful outlining tools to organize work and expand ideas into clearly written documents. Co-create documents and collaborate online easily. Invite others to work on the same document-contributing, posting comments and viewing changes. ||