Cheltenham Borough Homes welcome BrowseAloud…

Oct. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- They have a strong and effective Board of Directors and currently manage and maintain around 5,000 council-owned and leasehold properties within Cheltenham.

As part of their ongoing commitment to reducing accessibility barriers, CBH have enabled an innovative new product on their website called BrowseAloud.

BrowseAloud is a text to speech solution that reads all accessible content aloud in a high quality human sounding voice which can be altered to suit the individual’s specific needs. As text is read aloud, words are highlighted; a useful tool which aids literacy and comprehension.

Online visitors simply click the BrowseAloud icon in the ‘making this site easier to use’ pages of the CBH website www.cheltenham.gov.uk to download the product free of charge.

Tracy Riley, Head of ICT at CBH comments,
"At CBH we always put our customers at the heart of what we do and we found that the BrowseAloud software fitted our requirements very well. We have been impressed by the support and attention demonstrated by the BrowseAloud team and the easy integration of the software."

BrowseAloud has undergone some exciting new changes since the last release; Users can now access all the features using a floating toolbar, as well as a Translation tool which has been added allowing for single word translations in English, French, Spanish, German or Italian. Translations are read aloud in the corresponding languages, improving word recognition, pronunciation and comprehension.

For further information email d.thomson@browsealoud.com, alternatively for a free 14 day trial email freetrial@browsealoud.com to see the benefits of BrowseAloud.

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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. With a choice of 17 high quality voices covering 9 international languages and a number of unique features, BrowseAloud is quickly being adopted worldwide.