This page contains videos and guides that we hope will be helpful as you learn about your accommodations. We will continue adding to this collection. Captions are available on all videos.
For information about specific assistive technology available in the ODS Testing Center, please visit the Text-to-Speech in the ODS Testing Center & Speech-to-Text in the ODS Testing Center webpages.
Please contact Accessible Media if you have any questions at alt-media@jmu.edu.
Topics – Click a link below to visit the video/guide for that topic:
Request Your Books
Instructions for finding and using the online Accessible Media Request Form.
Introduction to Kurzweil 3000: Upload your own readings
Kurzweil 3000 reads text aloud while highlighting text on screen. You can load your own articles, papers, etc. into your Kurzweil 3000 account. Here's how:
Text-to-Speech and other tools in Kurzweil 3000
Learn how to customize Text-to-Speech in Kurzweil 3000 and explore some of the built-in writing and studying tools.
Using Bookshare books with Bookshare Reader or Kurzweil 3000
Bookshare is a library of electronic books. Both Bookshare Reader and Kurzweil 3000 allow you to read them using text-to-speech.
