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.