Accessibility

About Browsealoud

What is Browsealoud and how can you get it FREE?

Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out the words on this website. As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud. The Homes for Islington website now has this facility.

To use it, you have to download Browsealoud software by clicking the icon near the bottom of the home page on this website. You can download this software for FREE. There is no charge.

Once you have downloaded Browsealoud, it will put a small icon on your desktop (3 blue concentric circles). You can switch Browsealoud on or off and you can make various adjustments to the vice and sounds by clicking the icon.

Why has HFI has added this feature to this website

Browsealoud will make this website easier to use for large numbers of people, which is in line with the Disability Discrimination Act and Homes for Islington’s website accessibility objectives.

It will help the following people:

• With literacy problems (over 7 million in the UK)
• With learning difficulties (Over 1 million in the UK - source: The Cabinet Office)
• With severe dyslexia (An estimated 6% of the population - source: Dyslexia Institute 2003)
• Who are registered disabled people (8.6 million,14% of the population - source: Disability Rights Commission)
• With a sight problem (Two million UK residents, 4% of the population - source: RNIB)
• Aged 60 or over, who may have developed sight issues (12 million people, 21% of the UK population - source: National Statistics)