Rubin Enhances Accessibility Features for Emerge and Aspire Products

rubin accessibility updates for employability skills curriculum and career exploration platform

Rubin Enhances Accessibility Features for Emerge and Aspire Products

In both our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration video platform, we added new accessibility features. Teacher now have:

  • 7 different American voices for text-to-speech
  • “Page mask” to highlight lines while darkening the rest of the page
  • The ability to read aloud and highlight text on a PDF or Word doc

See screenshots below and then dive into Emerge or Aspire to try these exciting features!


Click the box highlighted in red to launch the accessibility features from any page.


The new page mask feature.


Click on the icon circled in red to launch the accessibility portal for PDFs and Word docs.


A look inside the accessibility portal for a Rubin PDF about email etiquette.
rubin accessibility updates for employability skills curriculum and career exploration platform

In both our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration video platform, we added new accessibility features. Teacher now have:

  • 7 different American voices for text-to-speech
  • “Page mask” to highlight lines while darkening the rest of the page
  • The ability to read aloud and highlight text on a PDF or Word doc

See screenshots below and then dive into Emerge or Aspire to try these exciting features!


Click the box highlighted in red to launch the accessibility features from any page.


The new page mask feature.


Click on the icon circled in red to launch the accessibility portal for PDFs and Word docs.


A look inside the accessibility portal for a Rubin PDF about email etiquette.
Marketing teacher Anna-Lisa Wanack from Nacogdoches Independent School District in Texas stands by her Rubin poster about the power of strong writing. Wanack relied on Rubin when she taught in Virginia Beach City Public Schools in Virginia. As soon as she landed in Texas, the Rubin posters and employability skills products returned.