Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader is a Chrome extension that converts webpage text to audio. It’s intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading. To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu once… Continue reading #734 Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader
PowerPoint have recently updated their PowerPoint checker and it is so much easier to use now. It clearly shows you areas on your slides that need fix them to make them easily accessible to people using assistive technologies. In this video guide I give you a very quick run through of how to use the… Continue reading #731 Not sure your PowerPoints are accessible? Check them!
The free* Microsoft Clip Champ video editor has some fantastic features, including the Text to Speech facility. In this video, we’ll demonstrate this and also show you how to add it to your videos.
Continuing with Clip Champ (we’ll be experts soon!) Adding captions is easy and has the added benefit that it is actually embedded within the video (eg not reliant on the browser or platform that you use). We’ll show you how to add and edit captions – we even throw in a bit of text-to-speech too… Continue reading #724 ClipChamp: How to add and edit captions
In this post, we show you how to take a transcript from YouTube and use ChatGPT to remove the line breaks and add punctuation, which saves you the manual task of doing this.
In this video walk-through, we show you how you can use Word online to dictate your written feedback. Once dictated, you can then copy and paste the feedback into your feedback tool. Perfect for if you prefer talking to typing! You can even set it to do your punctuation automatically too.
Visor is a browser extension that enables you to overlay colours onto webpages and adjust the contrast if you need to for reading purposes. Recently we had a short course with an accessibility requirement to provide materials on pastel-coloured backgrounds. Using Visor in the browser enabled the student to access the online materials without having… Continue reading #704 Visor: Coloured overlays for reading webpages
In this video, we show you how to add new fonts on a Windows computer. It’s really easy. You download the font you want and then drag and drop it in Settings.
If you have created Closed Captions for your video in Camtasia, but you want the captions to always be visible and cannot be turned off by the viewer, then you have the option to select Burned In Caption. Watch this video to show you how…
Helperbird is a browser extension (available in the Chrome store). It is geared to help with accessibility issues and dyslexia, allowing the user to quickly make adaptations to how text and data are presented on web pages to make it more accessible to people with various data perception difficulties. An easily accessible panel allows you… Continue reading #687 Helperbird
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