Turn photos into stories a child can read with one switch.
Build a story here, mark the spots that speak, and save it as a
.oastory file for the free
Open Adaptive
Reading app for iPhone and iPad - or read it right on this page with
the same scanning. Stories stay in files on your device; nothing is
uploaded.
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One photo makes a page. Two to four photos can share a page as a collage.
Drag on the photo to make a spot: a box, a circle, or draw around something by hand. With Move, drag a spot to shift it. The numbers show the reading order.
The highlight visits spots in this order. Use the arrows to change it.
Monarch Reader - the new home of Tar Heel Reader - has thousands of free picture books under Creative Commons licenses. Pick one and it becomes a story: one page per picture, with the caption as a spot that reads itself aloud. This search is the only part of the page that talks to the internet.
Works with a switch that types F13, F14, F15, Space, or Enter - the Open Adaptive Switch's keys and the usual switch defaults. Automatic scanning: any of those picks. Step scanning: F13 or Space moves, F14 or Enter picks, F15 goes back. Tapping a spot always works too.