City of London Police Force website gets vocal with BrowseAloud

Visitors to the City of London Police website can now have the pages read aloud to them, thanks to a specialist computer program called BrowseAloud.
 
July 19, 2010 - PRLog -- The BrowseAloud software aims to improve the accessibility of a site by reading web pages aloud in a high quality, human-sounding voice. As the text is read aloud, words are highlighted, which aids literacy and comprehension.

The software can be downloaded for free. Once downloaded, visitors to the force website can simply point the cursor at any text, and hear it read aloud. The software can also translate individual words to European languages, offer dictionary definitions, convert pages of text into spoken MP3 files and provide support for those with dyslexia.

The same software is used on the websites of the National Policing Improvement Agencies and the Independent Police Complaints Commission as well as many Polices Forces and Authorities across the UK.

Beryl Cooper, Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Unit Project Officer at the City of London Police, said: “People can experience difficulties reading text for a number of reasons, whether because of a condition such as dyslexia or indeed through deterioration of eyesight as part of the ageing process. We have a duty to the public to make our services accessible to them whatever their disability, and this software helps us to achieve that.”

Download BrowseAloud for free by clicking on the BrowseAloud logo on the City of London Police website at www.cityoflondon.police.uk.

For more information on BrowseAloud visit www.browsealoud.com.  Alternatively, contact Donna on 028 9442 8105 or email d.thomson@browsealoud.com.

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BrowseAloud is the world leading text-to –speech solution from Texthelp Systems designed to improve website accessibility for those with literacy difficulties, dyslexia, mild visual impairments or where English is a second language.
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