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Raspberry Pi Foundation: Coding Courses (Free)
Subject Community of Practice, Computer Science Accessibility Feature Magnification, VoiceOver/Screen Reader Platform Android, iOS, Website Age Range Secondary, Teachers Learn coding at your own pace with free online courses. Beginning with Python, teachers and students can learn text coding. Raspberry Pi offers free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers. It also trains educators to guide others to learn. Includes some paid features.
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Read Aloud (Free)
Subject Community of Practice, ILS, Reading, Utility Accessibility Feature Text to Speech Platform Microsoft Age Range Elementary, Preschool, Secondary ReadAloud is a text-to-speech app that can read aloud web pages, news, documents, e-books, or custom content. The app has a simple and intuitive interface and extracts readable content from web pages. Supports EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, and TXT file formats. Also allows for direct sharing from other apps, sentence highlighting, and customizable fonts and colors. For use with Windows 10. Includes free and paid features.
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Read Me Stories (Free)
Subject POHI/CI, Reading, Visual Skills Accessibility Feature Magnification, VoiceOver/Screen Reader Platform iOS Age Range Elementary, Preschool This app provides audio versions of children’s books. It helps develop children's love for books as well as a daily reading habit.
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Read Mode (Free)
Subject Communication, ILS, Leisure/Recreation, POHI/CI, Reading, Utility Accessibility Feature Text to Speech Platform Android, Website Age Range Elementary, Preschool, Secondary, Teachers This Google Chrome extension puts your browser into "read mode" for a pleasant reading experience. Just click on the glasses icon in the address bar, and the current page will turn into a black-on-white page, allowing you to read without straining your eyes. Ads and Flash animations are also removed while in read mode. Click the glasses icon again and everything will go back to normal.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-mode/nagcaahojecfeopbghgihcabgiepploa -
Read&Write (Free)
Subject Reading, Writing Accessibility Feature Magnification, Speech to Text, VoiceOver/Screen Reader Platform iOS Age Range Elementary, Preschool, Secondary, Teachers Word prediction makes typing on your iPad fast and friendly, with ‘Speak As I Type.’ The spell checker, dictionary, picture dictionary, and other study tools provide extra assistance with essays, assignments, or general reading and writing. If you’re using your Safari browser, just touch on-screen text to hear it read out loud with on-screen highlighting.