2. There are many laws concerning assistive technology and students with special needs, one of which is The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 section 508 required that all federal agencies’ electronic and information technology services be accessible to persons with disabilities. Another law is the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 that provides programs and grants to help states develop permanent, comprehensive, programs of technology related assistance. This act helps individual states develop the needed infrastructure to deliver assistive technology. More recently is the Assistive Technology Act of 2004 that redirected the funding from the states to individuals by providing direct aid to persons with disabilities. This act also focused on the delivery of assistive technology to disabled person rather than the development of delivery systems.
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4. You can turn on visual notification for sound (Sound Sentry) and the computer uses visual cues to replace sounds cues.
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6. Display you can change the size of text and other items on your screen by enlarging the screen to medium 125% or large 150% you can also use the magnifier tool which zooms anywhere on the screen and makes everything in that area larger.
7. Turn on Clear Type text which is software technology from Microsoft that improved the readability on LCD screens.
9. After in the Ease of Access Center you go to the “Make the computer easier to see” section. From there you can:
10. Turn on Narrator; where the narrator reads aloud any text on the screen.
11. Turn on Audio description; you can hear descriptions of what is happening in videos.
12. Turn on magnifier which can zoom anywhere on the screen, and makes everything larger in that area.Word and other documents let you change the size of the document you are viewing making it easy to adjust the settings and make the document appear larger.<br />