By: Reese Zapata

Text-to-speech can help in so many ways. It can help students gather their thoughts as a rough draft to see their thoughts, or it can help students who speak different languages understand their classmates. You can translate different languages and open doors for communication that wouldn’t take place elsewhere.

Captions allow viewers to visually see what you are saying by following along with the captions. This helps students who struggle to learn auditorially. It provides different options to learn and listen for different types of learners.

Writing fonts: You can change the writing fonts and spacing of the letters to help students who have difficulties reading. Some students struggle with dyslexia and having more spaced out letters allows them to differentiate the letters easier and improve their reading skills.

Visor: This feature puts a visor of your color choice on the screen. This can help students with visual impairments. It can also help emphasize certain parts of the texts to improve the focus on the students.

Mercury Reader: This tool gets rid of all advertisements and non-related pop-ups. This is extremely helpful for students who struggle to stay focused and tend to fall off track. There are no distractions, and the only content is the article.

Print-friendly: this removes all of the pictures and only prints out the article itself. It is helpful when you strictly want to focus on the text and not outside information and images.

Finder: This tool allows you to type in a word and find it within the article instead of having to search through the entire article. This is extremely useful when there is a large article and you are wanting to find a specific section.

Here is a short video with additional information about tools that could benefit your career!