Browsealoud 1.2

BrowseAloud is a computer program that reads aloud all website content including PDF and MS Word documents.

As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud.

Website owners pay a yearly charge to Browsealoud enable their site.

Main Benefits:

- Over 7 million people with literacy problems

- Over 1 million people with learning difficulties (source: The Cabinet Office)

- An estimated 6% of the population with severe dyslexia (source: Dyslexia Institute 2003)

- 8.6 million registered disabled people (14% of the population) (source: Disability Rights Commission)

- Two million UK residents with a sight problem (4% of the population) (source: RNIB)

- 12 million people aged 60 or over, who may have developed sight issues (21% of the UK population) (source: National Statistics)