Mac User Guide
Reading text using the toolbar
You can use the Speech buttons on the Browsealoud toolbar to read text aloud.
To use the Browsealoud toolbar, first make sure the website you have currently open works with Browsealoud. The Speech buttons on the Browsealoud toolbar are as follows:
-
– Play (Control
+ 
+ S).
Click on this button and then hover your mouse over an area of text on the
web page to hear the text read aloud. You can hover your mouse over
sentences, captions, images and so on. An image name will only be read aloud
if the person who created the website has included a name -
– Rewind (Control
+ + P). Click on this button to speak the previous text
aloud -
– Fast-forward (Control +
+ N). Click on this
button to speak the next text aloud -
– Stop (Control
+ + S). Click on this button to stop the system from
reading the text aloud.
The Shortcut
keys that you press to perform the above actions are specified in brackets.
You can only see the button when the
button is enabled, and vice versa.
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