Digital accessibility: Writing

Free grammar checker, approved by the university for use in your studies
⦁ How to set up your account
⦁ Getting started
⦁ How to improve your writing
⦁ Troubleshooting

Gmail users:
Dictate notes into Google docs or Google Slides speaker notes

Use Microsoft 365 for free on up to five devices, using your student login credentials.
Start using OneDrive and download the Microsoft package

Make your documents, presentations, and worksheets accessible with Word, PowerPoint and Excel:
Improve writing quality
Type with your voice
Transform printed text into searchable, editable, digital content

Download Microsoft software for free onto up to 5 personal devices, including Visio, Project, Visual Studio, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Plus more...

For iPhone and iPad.

Create podcasts, radio journalism, or other professional voice production work — lectures, speeches, voice-overs and more.

Combining a “voice memo” audio recorder, with a versatile multi-track editing studio for streamlined recording.

Keyboard that lets you type at unparalleled speed in total privacy - officially the fastest keyboard in the world

Apple Watch free keyboard also for iPhone and iPad
Auto-Correct, Swipe Typing, customization features and more

Overview of newspaper and magazine sources that are available from Library Search

Choose a template from Canva’s mind map maker customize the labels, and collaborate using the online whiteboard tools adding branches of information to build new concepts

Create diagrams and allow others to view or edit
From the side menu in Teams, find the three dots after OneDrive
Click here to reveal more Apps, including Visio

This app is free for iPhone and iPad
Build beautiful diagrams, graphic organizers and outlines with ease

Use templates to create a chart or diagram in minutes. Transform data into beautiful visuals and powerful insights with this online graph maker

Login to your university LinkedIn Learning account and serach for Canva training

How to reference your work to support your academic and research practices

NB Check with your course or module leader which referencing style is used

These citation or bibliographic managers can help you to gather, store and manage your data for references, and bibliographies

Referencing tools are not easily accessible for screen readers

Use MS Word's built-in Reference Tab with NVDA and JAWS for EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero
Guidance by Ros Walker and Samuel Kacer, University of St Andrews

This free text to speech extension for Chrome reads selected text
Listen to any email, webpage, google doc, PDF and kindle book

This is also good for having your work read back to you for editing

For Android only
Make simple text notes, tick lists; share shopping lists, take pictures and record short voice memos.

Location-based reminders;
Set a note to notify you when in a specific location
E.G. Your shopping list can ping when you are in town
Or the question you noted to ask a lecturer will ping when you are on-campus.