By: Kaytlin Czeslaw

1. Glean: Glean is a great accessibility tool that can be used in many classrooms! Glean was created to help students organize information much more effectively and help immensely with note-taking assistance. With this element, students are also able to record lectures and take notes simultaneously, helping students keep up at their own pace. One feature I find really interesting the transcription and keyword search features Glean offers that can adhere to students with hearing impairments and those who need to go back and review specific parts of the lecture.
2. FM Systems: FM Systems are wireless devices that help students with hearing impairments hear the teacher more clearly. While the teacher wears and speaks into a microphone, the student receives the audio through this tool and directly into their hearing aid or cochlear implant. This is a great way for students with hearing impairments to keep up with everyone at the same time.
3. Kurzweil: Kurzweil is a fantastic tool that has many accessible features to it. Kurzweil offers many features like text-to-speech, writing support, translation and is customizable to fit the learning needs of any student.
4. Writable: Writable is a writing platform that works to support students in developing writing skills through practice and receiving feedback. Writable offers a range of writing prompts, peer review, and feedback that helps make it easier for teachers to stay organized and manage writing assignments that will help students improve their writing skills. Writable contains a text-to-speech feature to help support students with different learning needs.
5. Edpuzzle: Edpuzzle is a great tool that allows teachers to integrate their lessons into videos with questions, comments, and quizzes all embedded into the videos. Not only is Edpuzzle a great tool to ensure the engagement of students, but it is also a great accessible tool. With Edpuzzle, it allows students to work at their own pace and has features such as subtitles and video playback to help aid student comprehension.
6. C-Pen Reader: C-Pen Reader is a great accessible tool with many features that adhere to students with different learning needs. These features range from text-to-speech, portability, language support, and dictionary function. The feature that sticks out to me the most is the language support, covering various languages and helping students stay at pace with everyone else.
7. JAWS: JAWS is a tool that contains many accessible features. JAWS has a feature called screen reading, which allows comprehensive screen-reading capabilities that allow visually impaired students to hear the text being displayed. JAWS also allows many features like braille support, keyboard shortcuts, and customization to suit the specific needs of any student.