Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Recite Me Website Accessibility Software

How accessible is the accessibility function on the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Library website? Clicking on 
Screengrab of https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/ (26 May 2020)

Clicking on the "Accessibility" buttons loads the "Recite Me" (https://reciteme.com/) web service onto the active page. Hover your pointer over any block of text to hear it recited.
The top of the page is populated by a toolbar containing a suite of icons that activate different services as needed.
The Recite Me toolbar controls

The toolbar controls are used for:
  • (green) Play/recite or describe selected content or tab forward or back to adjacent webpage elements to recite/describe the content. 
  • (blue) Configure display font and font size.
  • (colour wheel) Configure font colour and background for contrast/readability.
  • (orange ruler) Display a horizontal guide to aid readability.
  • (grey letterbox) Limit the view of the current page through a horizontal letterbox to aide readability.
  • (purple) Display a popup dictionary to show definitions for cursor selected text.
  • (national flags) To change the language used to display and recite. This provides an instant translation of the page and content.
  • (aqua) To display an x-ray view of the webpage, the webpage textual structure and text content.
  • (orange) To download the most recent recited speech as an audio file (in .ogg format)
  • (blue) To display a magnifying glass, click-drag to reposition on the page, to aid reading.
  • (grey) The settings menu cog.
  • (grey) The restore default settings button.
  • (red) A link to the Recite Me user guid.