This site is speech enabled!

This website is Speech Enabled. You can download the free Browsealoud software that will read out our website using the link below:

• Download Browsealoud Software

Features

• Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out all website content
• As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud
• Browsealoud is free to you, the customer

Benefits

The Disability Discrimination Act states that all services should be made accessible to people suffering from disabilities. Allowing you to have the site read out to you using Browsealoud will make this site easier to use and will benefit a large number of people.

In the UK there are:

• 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)

Voice-control

You can change:

• The voice that will be used to read out your site.
• How the voice pronounces words
• The language used when a Browsealoud user visits your website