MEETING YOUR LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ARE YOU FOR COMPUTER ACCESSIBILITY? Scottish Government Guidance: How? The school or local authority’s Some learners with ASN require stock of shared netbooks, technology to access the curriculum laptops or tablets can be successfully: the school or local authority booked out by pupils with should provide the ICT. Some students disabilities for specific learning only need the device for specific tasks tasks. or classes, but others will need a device personalised to their needs at all times. All school computers have Your school computers should have text- text-to-speech (TTS) software to-speech software installed for learners installed for reading documents with literacy difficulties. Visit CALL's and web pages. The computers text-to-speech web pages to find should have the free Heather and out more and to download free TTS Stuart voices installed. software. Get Heather and Stuart from the Scottish Voice website. Headphones are available for use Schools can provide headphones, with text-to-speech (TTS) where or learners can use their own. required. As well as headphones, schools should ensure that computer sound cards are installed and working. Control Panel settings can be All that's needed to enable access easily and quickly changed to for some pupils is to make small enable access for each disabled adjustments to the computer using the pupil. Adjustments can be saved built-in tools. Restricting access is not with the user’s profile. good practice - these tools should be made available on school computers. Specialist hardware and software ICT policies and procedures should required by learners with disabilities ensure that specialist software required can be easily and quickly installed for access can be installed in good and used on school computers. time. For example, one local authority gives highest priority to requests to install accessibility software. Computer refreshes or re-imaging ICT policies and procedures should are planned to accommodate record instances of specialist assistive software and hardware installations and adaptations so used by disabled pupils. They must that assistive technologies can be not result in existing technology re-installed following refresh. ICT becoming unusable. Replacement policies and procedures should or upgrades must not disadvantage ensure that assistive technologies disabled pupils. can be upgraded following a refresh. All teachers have a responsibility to support learners with additional support needs (ASN) and this includes learners who use ICT to access the curriculum: bit.ly/Scottish-Government-Guidance-Access CALL Information and Resources: Computer Accessibility Text-to-Speech Scottish Voices bit.ly/CALL-Computer-Accessibility bit.ly/CALL-Text-to-Speech bit.ly/The-Scottish-Voice Version 1, October 2016 CALL Scotland, The University of Edinburgh. CALL Scotland is part funded by Scottish Government..