Assistive software
There is a range of assistive software to support students with dyslexia and visual impairments. Please ask an IT Advisor for help accessing and using this software.
- Mindview (mind mapping software)
- Texthelp Read & Write Gold (spell checking text to speech software)
- High quality scanning devices suitable for OCR.
There is also a height adjustable table available.
IT accessibility
You can resize text via your web browser:
- Chrome: Settings > Appearance > Font Size
- Edge: View > Text size > Larger - Smaller
- Safari: View > Make text bigger – Make text smaller
By default, computers display fonts at the normal size of 100%.
You can set a Windows computer to display larger fonts 125% to 500%. Go to: Start > Settings > System > Display > Scale and Layout > Change the size of text, apps and other items
To enlarge screen data without changing the screen resolution on Mac OS X, you can use simple keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out, select the following keys to operate this function:
- Turn on zoom: cmd + option + *
- Zoom in: cmd + option + +
- Zoom out: cmd + option + -