If you do this, you can control the quality of the notes that are passed around to some degree. What types of technology is available to faculty and to students with disabilities. We are quickly moving into an age when technology will enhance the learning of all students, but, specifically, students with sensory impairments and learning problems based on disabilities will find many technological improvements. For visually impaired students, there are kits that change graphics to tactile materials. Auditory information can be embedded into text using software programs.
Readers change text to voice quite easily and the voices used have become more natural.
For hearing impaired students, voice to text software is improving. Digitizing voice to text is being tested to see if it can provide a more cost effective way of collecting notes from class and even have real-time captioning capability. For students with learning and attention problems, where it is especially important to use multimedia approaches to enhance learning, Blackboard and other multimedia formats help create more accessible learning experiences.