Doncaster Council

Instructions for Using Browsealoud

 Visitors to Doncaster Council website can now choose to listen to the web pages being read out loud to them with the addition of BrowseAloud.

We have speech enabled our website so that the pages can be accessed more easily by people who have difficulty reading, have dyslexia, mild visual impairments or where English is not their first language.

The BrowseAloud software enhances website accessibility by allowing users to personalise the product to suit their own individual needs. BrowseAloud highlights each word as it is spoken which also helps people to read more fluently. Users can set the colours that are used to highlight the words as they are spoken, and the text size and speed of reading can also be altered to suit the user’s requirements.

If you would like to benefit from this additional tool, you will have to visit the BrowseAloud website at http://www.browsealoud.com (or use the link from the bottom of any webpage) and follow the easy steps to download the free software.

Once you have installed BrowseAloud on your computer you will be able to hear about all the Council Services, the latest news and have contact details including telephone, email and minicom numbers being read aloud to you.

Other key features of BrowseAloud that will enhance the visitor experience include text magnification and an option to convert the text to MP3 format. BrowseAloud will also read accessible PDF documents, hyperlinks and image descriptions. We aim to make our website as fully accessible as possible to all our visitors and the introduction of BrowseAloud goes some way to achieve these aims.