Assistive Technology
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Accessibility features within the Microsoft 365 apps ensure everyone can create, communicate, and collaborate on any device.
Assistive technology available in the Office 365 apps consists of the following features:
- Learning Tools for OneNote
- Immersive Reader
- Dictate
- Editor
- Office Lens
Accessibility and Microsoft EDU Website
Microsoft Learning Tools are free tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability. It improves comprehension and independent reading with tools that read text out loud, break it into syllables, and increase spacing between lines and letters.
Learning Tools Website
Interactive Reading Demo
Learning Tools Availability Chart
Dictate is an Office feature for Windows Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams that converts speech to text using the state-of-the-art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator.
How to Use Dictate (Video)
Interactive Writing Demo
Microsoft Educator's Website for Dictate
The Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms, Flipgrid, Minecraft Education Edition and the Edge browser, which implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.
How to Use Immersive Reader (Video)
How to Use Immersive Reader in Teams (Video)
How to Use Immersive Reader and Office Lens (Video)
Using Immersive Reader with PDFs
Microsoft Editor is a service that offers advanced grammar and style refinements like clarity, conciseness, formality, vocabulary suggestions, and more. It's a browser extension for Edge and Chrome, and it's being added to Word and Outlook app.
Microsoft Editor Website
How to Use Editor in Word (Video)
Similarity Checker (Video)
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All about the Immersive Reader.pdf
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Assistive Technology in Office 365.pdf
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Immersive Reader Quick Guide.pdf
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iPad_Optimizing_Tip_Sheet.pdf
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Live Captions Quick Guide.pdf
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Speech to Text Quick Guide.pdf
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Translate Quick Guide.pdf
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Windows 10 Cheat Sheet for Accessibility.pdf
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LST Student iPad customization.pdf
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iPad_Guided_Access_V2.0.pdf
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LST Student Laptop customization.pdf