All Minuteman students can borrow e-books and audiobooks with Sora for free on your phone, mobile device, or computer. 

Learn about accessibility options in Sora.

Use your ClassLink account to access and log in. 

Bookshare is an online library of accessible ebooks for people with print disabilities. Books include textbooks and independent reading materials.

Check with a teacher, librarian, or guidance counselor to see if you qualify. Learn more about who qualifies for Bookshare. 

Reach out to Ms. Gleason in the library to set up a Bookshare account.

NoodleTools research management system allows students to keep digital research notes and source citations all in one place.

Sign in with ClassLink or your Office 365 account.

Accessibility supports in our Gale databases include options to translate, adjust font size, listen, highlight text, and use a built-in dictionary.

UDL is a framework for designing learning environments that are accessible, inclusive, equitable, and challenging for every learner.

Explore the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines from CAST.

Source: CAST (2024). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0. Retrieved from https://udlguidelines.cast.org

Word makes listening possible by using the text-to-speech (TTS) ability of your device to play back written text as spoken words.  There are multiple tools for listening to your Word documents: 

• Read Aloud reads all or part of your document. You can use Read Aloud on its own or within Immersive Reader for Word in Windows and MacOS.

• Immersive Reader is a set of tools that help improve reading fluency and comprehension. For more information about Immersive Reader, see Learning Tools in Word.

Dictation lets you author content in Office using speech-to-text technology.

With a microphone and internet connection, you can use your voice to quickly create documents, emails, notes, presentations, or even slide notes.

See the Dictate in Microsoft 365 guide for more information.

Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint:

PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 can transcribe your words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language you are speaking, or as subtitles translated to another language. This can help accommodate individuals in the audience who may be deaf or hard of hearing, or more familiar with another language, respectively.

Read Aloud is a Firefox extension that uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio.

Use this video tutorial for how to add & use Firefox Read Aloud extension.

Click settings / voice to translate into multiple languages.

Read Aloud is a tool in Microsoft Edge that reads the text of a web page audibly. There are several ways to access Read Aloud in Edge:

• Click on the Read Aloud icon to the right of the URL bar. 

• With your web page open, select and hold (right-click) anywhere on the page and choose Read aloud. 

• Use the keyboard shortcut: CTRL + SHIFT + U 

• Go to Settings and more and then select Read aloud.

Google Translate is a free language translation tool from Google. It allows users to translate words, phrases, texts and entire web pages between different languages. 

Speed up or slow down videos (YouTube)

• Go to a video.
• Hover over the player and click Settings .
• Click Speed.
• Select the speed at which you'd like the video to play.

Turn captions on or off (YouTube)

• Go to the video that you'd like to watch.
• If closed captions (CC) are available,  will be visible on the bottom right of the video player.
• To turn on Captions, click .
• To turn off Captions, click  again.