{"id":75873,"date":"2021-06-26T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75873"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:30:02","slug":"new-accessibility-features-for-students-and-teachers-using-chromebooks-educatorstechnology-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/06\/26\/new-accessibility-features-for-students-and-teachers-using-chromebooks-educatorstechnology-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New accessibility features for students and teachers using Chromebooks [educatorstechnology.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educatorstechnology.com\/2021\/06\/new-accessibility-features-for-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New accessibility features for students and teachers using Chromebooks<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educatorstechnology.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">After the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.educatorstechnology.com\/2021\/06\/new-interesting-google-meet-features.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Meet updates<\/a>, Google introduced new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/education\/the-anywhere-school-chromebooks-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">features<\/a>\u00a0in Chromebooks, ones that will definitely enhance the overall usability and accessibility of the device. Starting with the new PIN logins&#8217; feature for education users, students, teachers, and educators will now be able to log in to their assigned devices using a six digit pin code. This new feature will be standard on all new Chromebooks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Students with special needs will particularly benefit from the introduction of new accessibility features. There is the novel Live Caption functionality which allows students to caption videos. There is also the Switch Access feature which allows users to control their cursor either using the built-in keyboard or through connecting an external USB or Bluetooth.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New accessibility features for students and teachers using Chromebooks &#8212; from educatorstechnology.com Excerpt: After the new\u00a0Google Meet updates, Google introduced new\u00a0features\u00a0in Chromebooks, ones that will definitely enhance the overall usability and accessibility of the device. Starting with the new PIN logins&#8217; feature for education users, students, teachers, and educators will now be able to log [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,286,32,63,46,382,66,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-google","category-k-12-related","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-student-related","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75874,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75873\/revisions\/75874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}