Accessible Classroom Board

Teaching from the front of a classroom is busy enough. Building something visual your pupils can actually follow? That should not require being able to see it yourself. Accessible Classroom Board gives you a live classroom display you can build, edit and control through a clean, keyboard and screen reader friendly interface. Add text, tables, timers, images, questions and more, place them where you want them, then send the finished board to a projector while keeping the teacher controls on your own screen.

Build the board you actually want.

Start with a blank board and add what the lesson needs. Accessible Classroom Board currently supports:

Rich text blocks.
Tables with accessible grid editing.
Visual timers, including sand timers.
Images.
Question blocks.
Bullet and numbered lists.
Clocks and automatically updating dates.
Traffic lights.
Progress bars.
Reveal and hide cards.
Scoreboards.
Random pupil pickers.

You are not forced into a fixed template. If you want a big question across the top, a table underneath and a timer in the corner, build exactly that.

Designed for blind teachers.

Most presentation tools assume you can look at the screen and check whether everything is where you think it is. Accessible Classroom Board does not. Select a component and the program can tell you where it is, how large it is, whether it is fully visible and what it overlaps. Press F8 and the program describes what pupils can currently see. Run the visibility checker and it can warn about clipped text, table content that no longer fits and components colliding with one another. The aim is simple: you should not need somebody standing beside you just to tell you whether your own board still makes sense.

Move and resize without guessing.

Components can be positioned through named areas such as top left, centre and bottom right, or nudged around the board with the keyboard. Use Properties for accessible position and size controls. Use Alt plus the arrow keys to move something. Use Alt+Shift plus the arrow keys to resize it. If you are working with several components, the Layout menu also includes alignment, matching-size and distribution tools. Sighted users can still work visually with the board preview, but the accessible workflow is not an afterthought layered on top.

Edit while the class can still see the board.

The pupil view is a separate window from the teacher interface. Put it on the projector or classroom display, keep Accessible Classroom Board on your own screen and continue teaching. Text and table edits can update the pupil view live while you work, with a short delay so the display is not redrawn on every single keystroke. Press F5 to show or bring forward the pupil view. Press Shift+F5 to hide it. Press F6 for the private presenter console, containing teacher-only information and notes that pupils never see.

Stop content disappearing off the board.

Typing too much text or adding one row too many to a table should not quietly make half your lesson vanish. Accessible Classroom Board includes an editing overflow policy. You can choose to:

Prevent overflow.
Warn but allow overflow.
Allow overflow silently.

With prevention enabled, the program can stop an edit before it makes content disappear and offer sensible next steps, such as changing the component's Properties, continuing text on another board or splitting overflowing table rows onto the next board.

Tables that work with a screen reader.

Tables use an accessible grid editor rather than a pile of unrelated text fields. Move through cells with the arrow keys. Press Enter or F2 to edit. Press F9 if you want the current cell described. Press the applications key or Shift+F10 for cell actions. If the table is about to become too large for the board, Accessible Classroom Board can warn you before the pupil view becomes unusable.

Visual timers without the PowerPoint nonsense.

A classroom timer should be easy to see and easy to control. Accessible Classroom Board includes visual timer styles such as:

Sand or hourglass.
Shrinking bar.
Draining circle.
Digital countdown.

Start or pause a selected timer with Space and reset it with R. Control+Alt+T can report the remaining time globally, even when you are working elsewhere. Private timer announcements are designed not to constantly talk over your lesson.

Lessons, not just one screen.

A lesson can contain multiple boards. Create, duplicate, rename, reorder and delete them as needed. Use Page Up and Page Down to move through the lesson while presenting. Common board templates are available for things such as starters, independent work, discussion and plenaries. Private teacher notes can be stored alongside each board. Undo and redo operate across the whole lesson rather than only the current screen.

Export what pupils see.

Need to share the board afterwards? Export the current board as:

PNG.
JPEG.
PDF.

Exports use a clean pupil view, without teacher controls, selection handles or window clutter. You can also export a text outline of the lesson.

Who is it for?

Accessible Classroom Board is ideal for:

Blind and visually impaired teachers.
Teaching assistants and classroom support staff.
Teachers who want a simpler live classroom board rather than a full presentation package.
Schools looking for classroom display software that does not treat accessibility as an optional extra.
Anyone who wants to build a board quickly, present it separately and keep editing while it is live.

You do not have to be blind to use Accessible Classroom Board. It is simply designed so that being blind does not stop you using it properly.

Download today.

Ready to spend less time fighting presentation software and more time actually teaching? Download Accessible Classroom Board today and build the board you want your class to see.

Installable: Accessible Classroom Board v1.0 setup.exe (13.4MB) Version downloads: 1. total downloads: 1.

Portable: Accessible Classroom Board Portable.zip (15.8MB) Version downloads: 1. total downloads: 1.