ABOUT BROWSEALOUD
  • Features: what is BrowseAloud & how does it work?
  • Benefits: why should I BrowseAloud enable my website?
  • Security: will my site's security be maintained?
  • Voice-control: can I control what my site sounds like?
  • Easy to do: what do I have to do to enable my site with BrowseAloud?

Features

BrowseAloud is a computer 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.
  • Website owners pay a yearly charge to Browsealoud enable their site.

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Benefits

European laws state that all services should be made accessible to people with 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 European companies are improving their websites' accessibility.

BrowseAloud enabling your site is carried out remotely, so you don't need to make any changes to your site.

In the European Union there is:

  • over 10% people with literacy problems.
  • an estimated 8% of the population with severe dyslexia.
  • population grows old. In 2050, 40% will be over 60.
  • 12 million people with learning difficulties.

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Security

BrowseAloud has been designed with your website's security in mind. BrowseAloud enabling your site is carried 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.

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Voice-control

BrowseAloud allows the webmaster to specify how BrowseAloud reads their site:

  • 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 .

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What do I have to do to enable my site with BrowseAloud?

  • BrowseAloud enabling your site 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.

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