Compensatory Skills

A list of free fonts for print disabilities, including the best fonts for low vision readability with serif and sans-serif options

What to know about Virginia Standards of Learning SOL test accommodations for low vision students, from a student with low vision that uses large print

Learn how to create an informal personal accessibility checklist for low vision and determine if an app or website is accessible for a specific student

Practical and positive creative prank ideas for introducing low vision assistive technology concepts with humor on April Fool’s Day and beyond

Mostly free resources and strategies for implementing Universal Design for Learning/UDL for data science and statistics lessons, curated for EDAT 524.

Tips for pre-planning student access needs in programming and coding courses, and proactively addressing accessible coding barriers through pre-teaching programming languages

Digital doesn’t always mean accessible! Learn more about file formats for low vision and print disabilities for the classroom and beyond

Tech skills and strategies for using a laptop in high school with low vision, great for Expanded Core Curriculum lessons or learning to use technology independently

Creating audio narrated images for low vision students is great for Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) lessons! Here is a mix of paid/free apps for annotating and adding narration to images

A list of OCR scanner apps for low vision students, useful for extracting text that can be read out loud with text-to-speech or displayed in large print.

How I use alternative formats menus like YuJa Panorama and Anthology Ally with low vision for accessing content in my online and hybrid college classes

A quick overview of how to make online learning accessible for visually impaired students and sharing accessible course materials, written by a student with low vision