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Chrome Apps/Extensions

Read & Write by Text Help: toolbar that inserts into Google Docs, the web, and within PDF/ePub file.  Also,  provides an array of supports for writing.

Snapverter: take a picture of a document with a smartphone; converts it to an accessible PDF

Speak it: highlight text and click the speak it button to provide text to speech support

Readability: streamlines the presentation of web pages for easier reading

TLDR (Too Long Didn't Read): summary of reading material; offers long, medium, or short summaries.

Evernote Clearly: reduces visual clutter on screen; save pages to Evernote

Ginger: grammar and spell check support while writing

Co:Writer Universal: word prediction tool by Don Johnston

Awesome Screenshot: capture image from screen; annotate; save to drive

Connected Mind: brainstorming tool

Dictanote: voice recognition

Speech Pad: voice recognition, plus has ability to transcribe audio

High Contrast: change view of webpages

Announcify: screen reader support that reads items on the screen

Bookshare Web Reader: For students with print disabilities, access to an extensive collection of digital books that can be read with text-to-speech directly in browser

My Ebook Maker: Create digital books that can be exported to other compatible mobile devices

Gliffy Diagrams: create flowcharts, brainstorming tool

Typing Club: educational games as typing training, takes data

GeoGebra: free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics, and calculus in one easy-to-use package

Livebinders: organize, share resources

Symballoo- symbol driven home page to launch favorites

Extensity: helps manage all of your other extensions/apps

LegoBuilder: Create lego designs

Skiblz Cam: Screencast application- no audio yet!

Snag It from TechSmith: Screen Capture application (Download extension & app)

EdPuzzle: allows teacher to build a UDL type assignment with video, embedded audio and quizes
 

*Please note: Some of the extensions will say they are free but you will need to complete outside purchases for the extensions to work.  For example, the CO:Writer Universal extension is free.  However, it will not work unless you have a CO:Writer Universal account.

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