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BrowseAloud
BrowseAloud
Features:
- BrowseAloud is a software program that reads aloud all website content
- As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud
- BrowseAloud is free to the end user
- Websites pay a yearly charge to be BrowseAloud-enabled
Benefits:
Letting users have your site read out loud to them using BrowseAloud will make your site easier to use for large numbers of people. In the US and Canada there are:
- 45+ million people with literacy problems (source :U.S. Nat'l Literacy Survey 1992)
- 10-15% of the population with a learning disability (source: National Institutes of Health)
- 8% of the population over age 5 for whom English is a second language (US Census Bureau 2002)
- 13+% of children aged 3-21 who receive special education (source: www.nces.ed.gov)
- 12% of the Canadian population with some type of disability (source: Statistics Canada)
- 22% of Canadians who are functioning at the lowest literacy level (source: Statistics Canada)
BrowseAloud-enabling your site will also help you keep up with the competition and comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act that states that all citizens must have equal access to information online (source: US Rehabilitation Act). Today, most governments (local, county, state, and federal), government agencies, and large US and Canadian companies are improving their websites´ accessibility.
BrowseAloud on your site can also 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.
