Customise your online experience
The Recite Me toolbar lets you tailor your browsing experience with tools like text to speech, font and colour adjustments, and translation into multiple languages.
Key features include:
- Listen to text read aloud
- Change font size, style, and background colours
- Translate content into different languages
- Adjust layout for easier reading
You can watch the quick video guide or learn more about the tools below.
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Introducing the Recite me Toolbar.
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Recite Me is a software company
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that provides an innovative suite of on-demand,
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accessibility, and language tools
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that make websites more accessible
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and inclusive for a diverse range of people online,
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including users with disabilities
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and varying language needs.
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Screen reader. Once you've launched the toolbar,
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simply hover over our website content to have it read aloud.
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This feature can also be controlled
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by three green buttons on the left side of the toolbar.
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Click the play button to read the text aloud.
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Click the back button to rewind to the previous paragraph
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of text, and click the forward button to skip forward
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to the next paragraph of text.
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You can also download the audio of the website
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by highlighting the text and clicking
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the download audio button.
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The content will be downloaded as an audio file,
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which you can listen to wherever and
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whenever you want reading aids.
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To simplify, use and support your website visitors.
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The Recite Me Web accessibility toolbar provides five main
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tools, ruler screen mask, magnifier,
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margins, and a dictionary.
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Click the ruler button to enable the Reading ruler.
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By clicking the screen mask, you can create a letter box
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for focused viewing on a section of the page.
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This can help those who may get distracted
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by other elements on the page.
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When reading, the dictionary tool
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allows you to highlight a word to receive the definition.
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You can also have this definition read aloud.
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The magnifying tool allows you
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to drag a magnifying glass onto the screen
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to magnify text and images.
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The Settings Cog allows you to adjust various settings
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of the Recite Me toolbar.
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Click Reset to restore the default settings of the toolbar
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styling and customization.
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Recite me. Assistive technology allows people
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to change the way a website looks.
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Our website users are able to customize the color scheme
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as well as the text, font style, size, color, and spacing.
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Select the font button to change the font
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of the text displayed on the page.
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You can choose from a range of fonts
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that best suit your needs.
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A font in particular to note is Open Dyslexic,
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which is designed to mitigate some
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of the common reading errors caused by dyslexia.
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The minus sign decreases the size of the text,
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and the plus sign increases the size of the text.
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You can use the color wheel
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to change the background text and link colors.
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You can use various presets or customize them on your own.
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Text mode allows you to remove images
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so you can focus on the text without distractions,
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and the margins button changes the dimensions of the text
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by narrowing the width of the text column
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Translation, one in 10.
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People do not speak English as their first language.
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The Recite Me Web accessibility technology on our website
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quickly and easily translates all web content
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by selecting the translate button.
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You can choose from over 100 languages, 65
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of which can be read aloud.
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Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy trying out the
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inclusive tools on our website.
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For more information, please visit recite me.com.
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Recite me believing in accessibility for all.
Using the Recite Me toolbar
Click the 'Accessibility tools' button in the top left corner. This launches the following accessibility tools along the top of your screen.
Text to speech
Recite Me's enhanced text to speech tool lets you listen to website content read aloud, making it easier to browse without reading.
Playing audio
Use these tools to listen to the text on our website.
From left to right, these buttons let you:
- Go back to the last paragraph of text
- Read the text aloud
- Move on to the next paragraph of text
Changing the style
Change the look of our webpages to make the text and links clearer for you.
From left to right, these buttons let you:
- Reduce the size of text
- Change the font
- Add focus to the beginning of words
- Increase the size of text
- Change the colour of the page background, text and links
Change the language
Translate web content into over 100 languages, with 65 of those languages available for text-to-speech reading.
Reading support
These controls simplify the text on our pages to make it easier to read.
From left to right, these buttons let you:
- Enable the ruler to read line by line
- Change the size and colour of the cursor
- Mask the page to focus on an area of text
- Pause animations and video, hide images, and view image descriptions
- Display key elements such as headings, landmarks, and links
- Open the integrated dictionary
- Automatically condenses webpage content into easy-to-read summaries
- Download an audio file to listen to content offline
Reset and help
From left to right, these tools:
- Reset all preferences to default
- Open further guidance and more information about Recite Me.