This section provides information regarding expected behaviors within TestNav. These behaviors relate only to the Tools and Accessibility Features that are available to students. Tool or Feature (Forms Affected) If You Are Experiencing… What you can do… While magnifying, a question cannot The magnifier is best utilized when Magnifier (All Forms) be answered if the magnifier tool temporary magnification of artwork or covers the answer choice. text is needed. Magnifier will not magnify the display If general magnification or on the TI-84 Graphing Calculator enlargement of the screen is needed, Magnifier does not always magnify all the system zoom (Control+ and parts of an item. For example, there Control- on the keyboard) should be are limitations to the use of the used to enlarge all content on magnifier on equation editor, screen. extended text entry (essay writing), and drag and drop item types. Zoom (All Forms) After zooming in using Ctrl++ the is a limit to how much data can screen appears distorted, and it is be shown on the screen and how far difficult to read or answer the TestNav can expand when using the question. zoom feature. PARCC recommends not exceeding 300% magnification to avoid most issues with distorting items. There are several item types that will No action required. As needed, Contrast not be completely affected by color instruction can be provided to (Accommodated contrast settings. The color contrast students to detail this outcome with Forms) setting will display a box or an outline Color Contrast. around the item that will not be filled The PARCC Test Administration and in with the selected color contrast Accessibility Accommodations and setting. These items include: Fairness Working Groups created the Fraction Model following document for reference: Equation Editors Rich Text Editor box for constructed response items Bar Graphs Coordinate Grids Using the text highlighter in No action required. As needed, Text-to-Speech conjunction with TTS can make it instruction can be provided to (Accommodated hard to distinguish between the text students to use highlighting carefully highlighted by the tool compared to and primarily use a non-yellow text highlighted as it is read to the highlighter if necessary to avoid student. confusion.
This section provides information regarding expected behaviors within TestNav. These behaviors relate only to the Tools and Accessibility Features that are available to students. Tool or Feature (Forms Affected) If You Are Experiencing… What you can do… Magnifier (All Forms) While magnifying, a question cannot be answered if the magnifier tool covers the answer choice. Magnifier will not magnify the display on the TI-84 Graphing Calculator Magnifier does not always magnify all parts of an item. For example, there are limitations to the use of the magnifier on equation editor, extended text entry (essay writing), and drag and drop item types. The magnifier is best utilized when temporary magnification of artwork or text is needed. If general magnification or enlargement of the screen is needed, the system zoom (Control+ and Control- on the keyboard) should be used to enlarge all content on screen. Zoom (All Forms) After zooming in using Ctrl++ the screen appears distorted, and it is difficult to read or answer the question. is a limit to how much data can be shown on the screen and how far TestNav can expand when using the zoom feature. PARCC recommends not exceeding 300% magnification to avoid most issues with distorting items. Contrast (Accommodated Forms) There are several item types that will not be completely affected by color contrast settings. The color contrast setting will display a box or an outline around the item that will not be filled in with the selected color contrast setting. These items include: Fraction Model Equation Editors Rich Text Editor box for constructed response items Bar Graphs Coordinate Grids No action required. As needed, instruction can be provided to students to detail this outcome with Color Contrast. The PARCC Test Administration and Accessibility Accommodations and Fairness Working Groups created the following document for reference: Text-to-Speech (Accommodated Using the text highlighter in conjunction with TTS can make it hard to distinguish between the text highlighted by the tool compared to text highlighted as it is read to the student. No action required. As needed, instruction can be provided to students to use highlighting carefully and primarily use a non-yellow highlighter if necessary to avoid confusion.
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