Official documentation
Using Accommodations on Digital Tests (SAT Suite of Assessments)
College Board, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The College Board's description of how approved accommodations work on the digital SAT, including dictation and writer/scribe, and which tools are part of the test application.
- How much weight it carries
- Official, written by the test owner. Approval depends on each student's request in SSD Online and the test-day setup, and the page can change between test cycles.
Facts taken from this source
- On the digital SAT, approved dictation runs on the device's own speech-to-text, not on a tool inside the Bluebook testing app.
“This is not a tool within the Bluebook application; it is the same functionality that a student uses with other applications.” (Writer/Scribe, Dictation for Digital Tests)
- A student who cannot test with dictation may only rarely be approved for a human scribe on digital SAT tests.
“In rare circumstances, a student who is unable to test with dictation may be approved in SSD Online” (Writer/Scribe, Dictation for Digital Tests)