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.

Benefits

By enabling your site with BrowseAloud, it can help people with literacy problems, visual impairments or dyslexia 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 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 5 has been designed with your website's security in mind. Making your site BrowseAloud-enabled is done remotely, so you don't need to make any changes to your site and it will not 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 the Microsoft Gold Certification.

Voice-control

BrowseAloud 5 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 certain 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 5's client plug-in technology ensures a webmaster has no software to install on a webserver.
• BrowseAloud 5 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.