As part of our commitment to ensuring that information is accessible to everyone, we’ve just enabled a facility on our web site that could be of benefit to people who have reading difficulties.

‘Browsealoud’ is a website speech enabling service provided by a company called TextHELP Systems Ltd., which makes web content accessible to anyone with reading difficulties. It is designed to be simple for Users, requiring only a short download of the free program.

‘Browsealoud’ not only speech enables website content, it also speech enables the menus and hyperlinks to ease navigation of the website. Simply by scrolling your mouse over the text that you want read to you, ‘Browsealoud’ will speak what is written and also thereby help you navigate websites more easily. Users also have a choice of voice, pitch and speed, making navigation of websites easier and more meaningful than ever before for anyone with reading difficulties.

An increasing number of organisations are enabling their web sites with Browsealoud, including the BBC, Yahoo, Google to name but a few. The software is Microsoft Certified and will work on any PC with Internet Explorer 4.0 upwards or Netscape Navigator.

If you would like to download this FREE software, please click on the logo below which will take you to their download page.