Aprendizaje accesible para todos con Microsoft Educación

Every student deserves a solution to help them achieve great things. Learn in this article how Microsoft’s accessibility tools can support diverse learning needs.

More than 1 billion people across the world have disabilities. Yet only 1 in 10 have access to the tools they need to fully participate in society. It is a challenge that every organization has a responsibility to help solve.

Accessible technology can help bridge the gap, providing people everywhere with the tools they need to thrive. Nowhere is that more important than in schools and classrooms, where every student should have access to the resources and support they need to fully engage in learning.

Our commitment to digital inclusivity in education extends through all aspects of the solutions we offer, from product design to customer support. Our goal? To enable every student to fully participate in learning and life and empower every teacher to connect with each of their students, wherever they are, whatever challenges they face.

The accessibility solutions we offer have proven to enhance students’ learning experiences and environments, providing multiple ways for students to create, engage and participate. These tools are designed to help all students, regardless of ability, as outlined below.

Aprendizaje y habla

• Our Immersive Reader breaks down syllables, increases spacing between lines and letters, and reduces “visual crowding” to support students with different learning styles to both read aloud and listen to text. It’s a free tool that’s built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms, Flipgrid, Minecraft Education Edition and the Edge browser.

• Other integrated tools like Read Aloud support students with visual impairments by narrating web pages, news, documents, eBooks or your own custom contents. While Presenter Coach can help students prepare for presentations by evaluating pace, pitch and language used, helping to build confidence and improve students’ presentation style.

• Teachers can keep track of reading fluency by identifying accuracy rate and trouble words using Reading Progress with Insights. This tool helps students build confidence and reading fluency through personalized reading experiences built into Assignments in Microsoft Teams.

• Additionally, students can develop critical literacy skills using the reading practice tool, Reading Coach. The new offering, which complements other tools such as Reading Progress and Immersive Reader, automatically generates individualized exercises based on each student’s specific needs and provides guidance on the likes of pronunciation and syllabification.

Visión, audición y movilidad

• • El lector de pantalla integrado Narrador permite una navegación simplificada y proporciona descripciones de audio para que los estudiantes puedan interactuar fácilmente con todo lo que aparece en su pantalla con su teclado o dispositivo Braille.
  • Y para los estudiantes con movilidad limitada, la herramienta Dictar les permite usar el micrófono de su ordenador para dictar presentaciones o documentos.
  • We also provide captions on Microsoft Teams for students who are hard of hearing, have dyslexia, or need support focusing. Teams can detect what’s said in a class session or meeting and present real-time captions with speaker attribution.

Neurodiversidad y cognición

• Microsoft To Do es una aplicación de listas, tareas y recordatorios que puede ayudar a los estudiantes a organizarse y administrar su trabajo y actividades escolares desde un smartphone, tableta u ordenador.
• Para los estudiantes que necesitan ayuda para concentrarse, la vista Lectura elimina los anuncios molestos y el exceso de información para reducir la carga cognitiva mientras usan el navegador Edge, de modo que cada estudiante pueda permanecer concentrado.

Salud mental

• We’ve made it easier to check on your students’ social-emotional wellbeing with tools within Microsoft Teams. Reflect helps students recognize and navigate their emotions by providing regular opportunities to share and be heard, broadening learners’ emotional vocabulary and deepening empathy for their peers. And there’s support for teachers too with Insights, which provides valuable feedback to help educators build a healthy classroom community.
  

• Teachers can encourage everyone to learn and share their thoughts using Flipgrid. A safe video expression tool, Flipgrid encourages students to informally share details of their successes, interests and weekends – especially good for quieter and shier students.

Todos los estudiantes

• Para los estudiantes que no están aprendiendo en su idioma nativo, la aplicación Traductor, el Traductor de presentaciones de PowerPoint y Teams se pueden configurar para traducir el contenido a su idioma preferido.

• Regardless of the challenges that students may face,The Ease of Access Center in Windows allows everyone to personalize their computer to best support their needs. By making it possible to customize mouse actions, trackpad options, keyboard preferences and more, every student can define a digital experience that matches the way they interact with the world.
• Antes de compartir documentos y hojas de cálculo, o enviar correos electrónicos, tanto los docentes como los estudiantes pueden ejecutar el Comprobador de accesibilidad para garantizar que el contenido sea fácil de leer y editar para las personas con discapacidades.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for accessibility tools in education, so it’s more important than ever to empower every student with technology that facilitates personalized learning. Because when educators adopt a technology-driven approach to learning and teaching, anything is possible for students of every ability.