Features

• Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out all website content
• As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud
• Browsealoud is free to the end user
• Websites have to pay a yearly charge to be Browsealoud-friendly

To make your site Browsealoud-friendly, get in touch:

• UK freephone: 0800 328 7910
• E-mail: info@Browsealoud.com

Benefits

The Disability Discrimination Act states that all services should be made accessible to people suffering from disabilities. Letting users have your site read out to them using Browsealoud will make your site easier to use for large numbers of people

It will also help you keep up with the competition - most large UK companies are improving their websites' accessibility

Making your site Browsealoud-friendly is done remotely, so you don't need to make any changes to your site

In the UK there are:

• 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)

To make your site Browsealoud-friendly, get in touch:

• UK freephone: 0800 328 7910
• E-mail: info@browsealoud.com

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.

• UK freephone: 0800 328 7910
• E-mail: info@browsealoud.com

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-friendly?

• Making your site Browsealoud-friendly 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