Screen magnifier assistive technology enlarges the content displayed on a device’s screen to assist a student with visual impairments. Although the TDS supports some non-embedded screen magnifier resources from third parties, CAI strongly recommends students use the zoom resources embedded in the TDS. These embedded resources were designed to magnify test content in the most intuitive and user-friendly manner for a student.
Zoom resource assignment can be tracked by the CAASPP and ELPAC programs when gathering data about student test settings.
The embedded zoom resources in the secure browser allow a student to magnify test content to the following levels:
1×
1.5×
1.75×
2.5×
3×
5×
10×
15×
20×
Table 1 provides a list of third-party screen magnifier tools that can be used in the TDS. The non-embedded screen magnifier tools listed in this table come with an increased risk of interoperability issues, require a student to manually pan the magnification resource across the screen, and can include unwanted features that should not be used while testing.
Magnification resource assignment can be tracked by the CAASPP and ELPAC programs when gathering data about student test settings.
ZoomText includes a SpeakIt TTS feature that could be used to read aloud passages (which is not permitted on CAASPP ELA, CSA, or ELPAC Reading domain assessments), and has other reading modes that are functional in the secure browser.
It is recommended that a student who requires TTS support use the secure browser’s embedded TTS resources, and that a student who requires a screen reader use JAWS or Fusion.
