[Athen] ExamSoft/Examplify and Text-to-Speech

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Hi Kamran,

That was a solution I offered to the student but they felt that NVDA was too much - it read too much and overwhelmed them. I'm re-looking at the preferences to see if I can turn off a lot of that verbosity. Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm now exploring NaturalReader with a screenshot reader option....


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Hi Dawn,



I'm not sure if this will be helpful; if the student has access to a PC, they can install NVDA and use its text-to-speech feature by hovering over the text using a mouse device. It worked in an Exemplify secure environment – at least it did several years ago; I'm not sure if anything has changed since then.



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Hi all,



I've hit a roadblock in making sure we can provide access to exams hosted in Examsoft's Examplify platform. In the past, we had the Speechify Windows desktop application and that would read an unsecured Examplify exam. Now that desktop application no longer exists and everything I look at appears to be based in a web browser, which does not work for reading another desktop application.



We tried to have a Word document for TTS and have the student respond to the questions in Examplify but the department is not happy with this solution as they believe it provides the student with additional access.



What have you found to be successful for these types of exams?



Thank you!



Dawn



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