Unit 1: Introduction to Accessible Technologies for Reading

The self-study activities in this unit will give you an overview of the key assistive technologies. You will be introduced to more details in the following units.

Please read the case studies first, before beginning the first module.

Study methods

You can either work through each module via our webpages, or you can download the materials as Word documents.

Webpages

• Case studies for Unit 1
• Module 1: Introduction to Print Disabilities and Assistive Technologies
• Module 2: Introduction to structured Word documents
• Module 3: Modifying Word documents
• Module 4: Text-to-speech (TTS)
• Module 5: DAISY versus WordTalk
• Module 6: Speech recognition
• Module 7: eReaders

Word documents

Case studies for Unit 1

• Case studies - Word DOCX (80.4 KB)
• Case studies - Word DOC (92.5 KB)

Module 1: Introdution to Print Disabilities and Assistive Technologies

• Module 1 - Word DOCX (89.4 KB)
• Module 1 - Word DOC (132 KB)

Module 2: Introduction to structured Word documents

• Module 2 - Word DOCX (85 KB)
• Module 2 - Word DOC (127 KB)

Module 3: Modifying Word documents

• Module 3 - Word DOCX (83.1 KB)
• Module 3 - Word DOC (112 KB)

Module 4: Text-to-speech (TTS)

• Module 4 - Word DOCX (83.7 KB)
• Module 4 - Word DOC (104 KB)

Module 5: DAISY versus WordTalk

• Module 5 - Word DOCX (85 KB)
• Module 5 - Word DOC (105 KB)

Module 6: Speech recognition

• Module 6 - Word DOCX (81.6 KB)
• Module 6 - Word DOC (89.5 KB)

Module 7: eReaders

• Module 7 - Word DOCX (83 KB)
• Module 7 - Word DOC (94.5 KB)

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