By Jeff Petty and Lauren Pittman. 7 Steps to Help Teachers Improve Learning Outcomes and Accessibility.

1. 7 Steps to
Help Teachers Improve
Learning Outcomes and
Accessibility

2. Help us understand our audience…
• General special education?
• Adaptive special
education?
• In the classroom?

3. Agenda – Microsoft Culture

4. MicrosoftMission
Microsoft Mission
Empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more

5. Empowering People

6. How we think about Disability
Disability Disability

7. ~70% of disabilities…

8. are invisible.

9. Over 1 billion people
with disabilities.

10. 8 million experience situational exclusion

11. Agenda – Office Accessibility

12. Empower All Students with Office 365 Accessibility
Learning Tools
Comprehension,
fluency and
decoding aids
Word, OneNote,
Outlook Web
Access, and Edge
Office Lens
Take content from
the analog to the
digital world
Immersive Reader
available for Office
Lens on iOS
Dictate
Use voice to get your
best thoughts into
your documents
Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OneNote,
Outlook
Editor
Write easy-to-read
documents, with more
confidence
Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OneNote,
Outlook
Read Aloud
Read your content
with simultaneous
word highlighting
Word, OneNote,
Outlook Web
Access, and EDGE

13. Free Seeing AI app on iOS
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/

14. Free Office Lens on iOS with Immersive Reader
http://aka.ms/officelens

15. Free Learning Tools for OneNote
http://onenote.com/learningtools

16. Free Dictate for Office
http://dictate.ms

17. Free Editor (built into Microsoft Word)

18. Learning Tool is Improving
Student Outcomes

19. State Measured Reading Speeds are Increasing

20. “Our pupils all pretty much without exception hate writing.
The learning tools transformed writing for our pupils.”
- Jan Lusty, Head of School at Knowl Hill

21. Supported by Research
British Dyslexia Association & Knowl Hill School Study

22. A story planning sheet for a 9 year old boy…

23. …and his independently created story in OneNote.

24. A story planning sheet for an 11 year old girl…

25. …and her independently created story in OneNote.

26. Developed with Experts, e.g.
Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, Dyslexic Advantage

27. Learning Tools Availability

28. “No one should have to ask for
access, it should just be there.”
Marlee Matlin
Academy Award Winning Actress
Outside In Talk at Microsoft
December 2016

29. Office 365 enables accessible communications

30. Meet Veronica
“I’ve introduced Word’s
Accessibility Checker to a
lot of my professors
when creating accessible
materials, and showing
them that it takes less
than a minute to make a
document accessible.
Why wouldn’t you do it?”

31. Agenda – Windows Accessibility

32. Windows 10 Accessibility
vision
Make your device easier to
see or use with or without a
screen
hearing
Make your device easier to
hear or use without sound
cognition
Make it easier to focus and
get things done with
Windows
physical
Make your device easier to
use of you have limited reach
or strength

33. Ease of Access
Make accessibility easier to
discover, learn and use
Coming Soon!

34. Vision
Make your device easier to see or
use with or without a screen
Recently Added!
Greyscale Deuteranopia Protanopia Tritanopia

35. Hearing
Make your device easier to hear or
use without sound
Recently Added!

36. Physical
Make your device easier to use
if you have limited reach or strength
Recently Added!

37. Cognition
Make it easier to focus and
get things done with Windows
Recently Added!
Recently Added!
Coming Soon!

38. Partner Solutions
Windows has a growing number of
accessibility apps and extensions
Recently Added!

39. Agenda – Announcements & Resources

40. Announced this week!
• Dictation in Office—this tool will help students write by using only their voice.
Starting in February, Dictation will be available in Word, Word Online,
PowerPoint, Outlook Desktop, OneNote Windows 10, and OneNote Online—
and in more than nine languages.
• Read Aloud— allows students to hear the contents of an email while each word is
highlighted in sync. It will soon be available on Outlook Desktop in more than 30
text-to-speech languages.
• Immersive Reader— to further support students of different backgrounds,
Immersive Reader now supports an additional 10 new languages. It is also
coming to even more platforms in 2018 and will soon be available on Word for
Mac, iPhone, and Android, as well as Outlook Desktop and OneNote for iPhone,
iPad, and Mac.

41. 5 free Microsoft tools to try today
1. Communicate and collaborate seamlessly with Office 365
aka.ms/OfficeEducation
2. Engage your diverse audience by presenting with subtitles
aka.ms/TranslatorForEducation
3. Create assignments that are accessible by design
aka.ms/AccessibleTemplates
4. Go paper-less with Office Lens and Seeing AI
aka.ms/OfficeLens & microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/
5. Encourage independent reading and writing
onenote.com/LearningTools

42. 5 Microsoft sites to bookmark and share
1. Educator Training on Inclusive Content
aka.ms/AccessibleContentTraining
2. Educator Training for Personalizing Learning
education.microsoft.com/GetTrained/accessibility
3. Training on Creating a Digitally Inclusive Learning
aka.ms/AchievementForAll
4. Answer Desk for Accessibility Support
aka.ms/Edad
5. Microsoft Accessibility Overview
microsoft.com/Accessibility