Students with disabilities are able to use helpful universal design features to help facilitate computer access. These features provide screen magnification that can be beneficial to users with visual impairments. Sticky keys allows students to press keys sequentially to execute functions that typically require pressing the keys simultaneously. Slow keys can increase the amount of time a key must be depressed before registering a keystroke so that brief keystrokes will be ignored. Lastly, MouseKeys is accessibility feature that allows users to direct the mouse pointer and execute all mouse functions using the keyboard's numerical keypad. These accessibility features will help students with disabilities access computers.
Dell, Amy. Assistive Technology in the Classroom. Pearson, Boston. 2012
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