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Peep and the Big Wide World is popular animated children's television series that revolves around the lives of Peep, Chirp and Quack. These whimsical...
PhET is a suite of research-based interactive computer simulations for teaching and learning physics, chemistry, math and other sciences. "PhET" was originally...
Preschoolers learn to group items into categories, starting with activities that group by color, shape or size. The content of what is being categorized...
Navigating Google Sheets with Jaws Lesson
Allotted time: 45 minutes
Group size: small group
Standards
Expanded Core Curriculum, Assistive Technology...
In recent discussions with college transition programs for students who are visually impaired, across the board, the main issue is the need for stronger and...
During recent discussions about what accessible math tools students are using, Desmos is always one of the first tools mentioned. Desmos, a graphing calculator...
"Anyone know of good accessible periodic tables, other than the APH one or the audio tactile from Touch Graphics? I have used both, but wondering if there's...
I like to say that now is a great time to be a blind person interested in STEM, as both accessing and presenting math and other STEM content is becoming...
Young students are embedding technology skills into daily classroom activities. Use these pumpkin-themed activities to reinforce concepts, reading/writing...
Temperatures are dropping, leaves are turning colors, school has started and classrooms are diving into fall themed activities! Here are some creepy crawling...
Teacher's Pet Online is a free, accessible tool to create and share practice materials, quizzes and tests. The tool works with your platform's screen reader...
Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. In a nutshell, sounds have meaning. For decades, sonification has been...
Digital math. (sigh) If you are a teacher of the visually impaired, your first experiences trying to teach math concepts with digital resources was probably...
All students are introduced to simple tables in general education kindergarten classrooms in paper/pencil (or tactile) formats which quickly transition to...
A new feature in JAWS 2021 is the native ability to read math content in Word documents. Below is what Freedom Scientfic writes:
JAWS and Fusion now supports...
The National Homework Hotline for Blind and Visually Impaired students (NHH-BVI) was created in response to the school closures due to COVID. (See Homework...
While looking for public fall-themed educational activities, I came across Kids Listen, podcasts for kids. Kids Listen is unique in that all the content is...
Updated August 2020
Using IPEVO for Remote Instruction
With many students starting the fall of 2020 with remote instruction, there is a critical need for...
HOW TO CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE FORMULA SHEET
In several of my math, statistics, and data science classes, the professor will provide a formula sheet for quizzes...
Updated 06.10.20 to include the recorded webinar!
About the Webinar
Are you a person with a visual impairment or blindness who would like to access online...
News by the Numbers: High-Contrast and Nonvisual Access to Data Representations
Remote-only workshop with Ed Summers, Director of Accessibility, SAS; and...
All students initially learn best through hands-on activities. Go into any early elementary classroom and observe students during math class using counting...
Are you interested in learning about accessible digital charts and graphs? SAS Graphics Accelerator is a free Chrome extension that enables users to access...
This semester, I discovered that I need some extra help with some of my data science coursework involving physics and statistics, so I went looking for online...
Update 9/4/2019
APH recently updated their APH Crossword web-browser game. There are several noteable updates, including:
Letters are larger - match the...
Sightlings - students with vision - are able to glance at a chart and instantly identify the trend and general information without exploring each data point....
The year is 2029 and global warming disaster scenarios have become real - temperatures have increased drastically, glaciers have melted and sea levels have...
Part of the SAS Accessibility Team recently taught this activity with students in the SAVVY Transition Program in North Carolina. This post is follows the...
Wolfram Alpha
According to the Wolfram Alpha website, “Wolfram Alpha is a unique online engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using...
In my short time as a vision teacher and assistive technology specialist, I have come to appreciate the vast lengths that developers have gone to in order to...
Periodic Table is defined as, "A table of the chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties;...
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The objective of this activity is to teach your student how to create a specific type of line chart called a time series chart. The ability to...
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The objective of this activity is to teach your student how to quickly determine the shape and trend of a line chart. We do that by scanning the...
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The objective of this post is to teach your student how to create a simple bar chart and share it with their general education teacher. The post...
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Bar charts are used to compare individual values or measures of categorical data. The objective of this activity is to teach your student how to...
Hi, my name is Esteban and I’m currently a senior in high school. Over the summer, I attended a STEM camp for the blind and visually impaired in North Carolina...
Hey it’s Esteban, and thanks for watching my video tutorial. This second video describes how to use customize the Accelerator using the “options” menu. Enjoy...
EquatIO is a math extension that makes math digital. Type, handwrite, dictate, or simply copy a printed math equation; EquatIO converts these math equations...
Level Up is a summer camp in Wichita, Kansas where middle and high school students with visual impairments learn to use screen readers, magnification software...
I’ll never forget the time I superglued my hand to my desk.
I was attempting to make a tactile map and, having run out of Wikki Stix, I was using yarn or...
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