Screen Masker

Typed text is more legible for those with cognitive or visual difficulties including dyslexia, dysgraphia, low vision, color blindness, and more. Variations in handwriting style, skewed text, writing that is too small or too big, block vs. cursive writing, and more can make handwritten text and math difficult to decipher. As such, it is highly recommended to work with typed text and equations over handwritten math.  

Microsoft Word has a powerful equation editor that produces accessible equations. Equations in Word can be read aloud in a natural tone using the Read Aloud document reader built into the software, a relatively unique function. Additionally, Word makes it easy to export accessible PDFs. Text, equations, drawings, and images can be combined in Word to create detailed documents. The various features of Word, as they relate to math, are detailed below.