For a long time computers can have been able to read aloud text on web pages, documents, PDFs and even scanned images. The computer voices […]
dyslexia
This document looks at the various presentation options for text on modern computers. It can be used as a method for self-assessment or to […]
Reading Computers can provide great benefits for those that have difficulty reading. Here are some ways in which they can help: Optical Character Recognition […]
Mears Irlen Syndrome / Visual Stress (MISVis), also known as Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome (SSS), describes distortions in vision sometimes experienced by people with dyslexia, attention […]
WordQ offers help when writing documents by providing word prompts and sentence-by-sentence proofreading. When bundled with SpeakQ it also allows individual words to be […]
I recently stumbled across a new set of text-to-speech voices produced by CereProc in Edinburgh. They have a fantastic collection of realistic voices covering […]
A university student who I met through a DSA assessment recently got in touch to say that she was having difficulties reading PDF documents […]
On Friday I went to my first Disabled Students’ Allowance Workshop day at Assistive Solutions in Dalston. First of all a big ‘Thank You’ […]