BrowseAloud is a computer program that reads aloud all website content including PDF and MS Word documents.
As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud.
Website owners pay a yearly charge to Browsealoud enable their site.
Main Benefits:
- Over 7 million people with literacy problems
- Over 1 million people with learning difficulties (source: The Cabinet Office)
- An estimated 6% of the population with severe dyslexia (source: Dyslexia Institute 2003)
- 8.6 million registered disabled people (14% of the population) (source: Disability Rights Commission)
- Two million UK residents with a sight problem (4% of the population) (source: RNIB)
- 12 million people aged 60 or over, who may have developed sight issues (21% of the UK population) (source: National Statistics)
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