Vocations · Job Skills

Your tools,
ready on any machine.

A screen reader tuned just right, captions that come on by themselves, a dictation setup that knows your words: these take time to build and a single update or a new laptop can undo them. Record each tool’s settings, shortcuts and backup, and the organizer flags what needs attention before it costs you a deadline.

Add a toolWhat you get
$5one-time · every device you sign in on
Buy · $5

Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Job search kit, $29 for 34 items.

Your toolkit

The worked example is made up: a screen reader set up at home with settings from last year and not yet on the work laptop, and live captions the school provides. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Vocations · Job Skills$5

What you finish with
A record per tool: the kind, the devices it runs on, who paid, when settings were last updated, settings in words, shortcuts and what they do, a backup plan and six ready checks. Counts shortcuts and months since an update; flags a missing backup, stale settings, a tool not yet on the work or school computer, telling HR or disability services and funding sources.
Who it is for
Students and workers who use assistive technology, and the people who support them.
Format
Browser organizer with a saved record per tool. Prints one tool’s card, the whole toolkit in a table or a blank sheet; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Job search kit ($29) and the Vocations Suite pass ($99), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Job Skills space in Caveat Vocations.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Add each tool and the devices it runs on.
  2. Write your settings in words and list the shortcuts you use.
  3. Write a backup plan.
  4. Work through the ready checks.
  5. Update the record after every major system update.

Add a tool

Paying for it

Where help with the cost comes fromFor workState vocationalrehabilitationThe employer, as anaccommodationTicket to Work servicesFor schoolThe school, under an IEPor 504 planCollege disabilityservicesFree built-in toolsTo try firstAssistive Technology Actprograms lend devicesDemonstration centersFree trials of softwareWhere help with the cost comes fromFor workState vocational rehabilitationThe employer, as an accommodationTicket to Work servicesFor schoolThe school, under an IEP or 504 planCollege disability servicesFree built-in toolsTo try firstAssistive Technology Act programs lenddevicesDemonstration centersFree trials of software
Every state and territory has an Assistive Technology Act program; at3center.net lists them.

A new computer

Before you switch computers, export or write down settings, dictionaries and custom commands. Many screen readers and dictation programs can save settings to a file that moves to the new machine.

At work or school

Software installs on a managed computer usually need IT approval. Asking early, as part of an accommodation, avoids a first week without your tools.

Sources

  1. Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended in 2004 and 2022; state AT programs listed by the Center for Assistive Technology Act Data Assistance (at3center.net).
  2. Job Accommodation Network. Accommodation ideas by limitation and by technology (askjan.org).
  3. Rehabilitation Services Administration. State vocational rehabilitation agencies (rsa.ed.gov).
  4. U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. Students with disabilities: Section 504 and the ADA (ed.gov/ocr).

The worked examples are made up. Funding rules differ by state and program. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.