Features
- BrowseAloud is a
speech-enabling solution designed to enhance the accessibility of your website.
- BrowseAloud reads all
accessible website content aloud, with a high quality voice.
- Zero Impact for the
webmaster.
- BrowseAloud is free to the
end user.
- Websites pay a yearly
charge to be BrowseAloud-enabled.
- BrowseAloud on your site can increase traffic and improve search
engine rankings and subscriber sites are automatically added to a Member
Directory of Speech-Enabled Websites.
Benefits
By enabling your site with BrowseAloud, it can help people with
literacy problems, visual impairments or dyslexia to view your website.
In Canada:
- 1 out of 10 Canadians have
a learning disability (source: International Adult Literacy and Skills Service)
- 22% of adult Canadians are
functioning at the lowest literacy level (source: Dyslexiability.com)
- 24% only have basic
read/write skills (source: Dyslexiability.com)
- Dyslexia is estimated to
make up 15% of the population (source: International Adult Literacy and Skills
Service)
- 84% of Canadians are
internet users (source: International Telecommunications Union)
BrowseAloud on your site can also increase traffic and improve
search engine rankings and subscriber sites are automatically added to a Member
Directory of Speech-Enabled Websites.
Making your site BrowseAloud-enabled is done remotely, so you
don't need to make any changes to your site. Updates to the program are handled
automatically via the Texthelp servers.
Security
- BrowseAloud has been designed with your website's security in
mind. Making your site BrowseAloud-friendly is done remotely, so you don't need
to make any changes to your site and it won't affect your website's security.
- The BrowseAloud program does not connect with your web servers at
any time. All text to speech processing is carried out on the visitor's own
computer. All updates of the program are handled by downloads from our servers.
- BrowseAloud has been rigorously tested and has been accredited
with the Microsoft Gold Certification.
Voice-control
- BrowseAloud allows the webmaster to specify how BrowseAloud reads
their site, including specifying:
- The voice that will be used to read out your
site
- How the voice pronounces words
- The language used when a BrowseAloud user visits
your website
Easy to do - what do I have to do to make my
site BrowseAloud-enabled?
- Making your site
BrowseAloud-enabled is done remotely, so you don't need to make any changes to
your site
- BrowseAloud's client
plug-in technology ensures a webmaster has no software to install on a
webserver
- BrowseAloud is an
'immediate solution', it requires no technical changes to be made to your website
if it is already designed with accessibility in mind (e.g. to W3C standards)
- We just need to be
provided with the website, intranet or extranet URL. Speech-enabling your site
is seamless and handled remotely, there doesn't have to be any downtime on your
website and there are no management overhead costs
- BrowseAloud will be able
to automatically speak new content when you update your site