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The British Dyslexia Association is delighted to have a talking website through the innovative and user friendly Talklets toolbar. This simple to use toolbar enables all website visitors with poor reading ability or visual impairment full access to the information available throughout the site.

We have been delighted with the Talklets toolbar. Having the opportunity to make our website speak its message is a boon to dyslexic and other visitors. The toolbars make our website more accessible and show our users that we care about them and making getting information from us a positive experience.

The web site for the Adult Dyslexia Centre (Thames Valley) aims to enable all readers access to the information presented on the site. We have been using the TEXTIC Talklets tool bar on our site to help us achieve this aim.

Dyslexic (and non-dyslexic) readers often need a different colour background to read from due to a difficulty sometimes known as Scotopic Sensitivity – difficulties reading black print off a white background. This preference is met by the toolbar’s function of changing the background colour of text. Difficulties with tracking text from left to right and down the page are minimised by the use of the highlighting function, one line or several. One of our members commented how relieved he was to have text also read out to him in an understandable voice using the toolbar.

The toolbar’s strengths? Improved readability, definitely, but also a read aloud function, using a natural-sounding voice, that allows even a non-reader access to the information on the site.

I must tell you how delighted I am to have both the Textic Talkbar and Toolbar on my website (www.brainhe.com). My site is about neurodiversity in higher education, and a key theme is that universities should make everything accessible to diverse students. We therefore need to model accessible practice on our own website, and the Textic products allow us to do that. More importantly, they work! I have looked at many other websites and tried many other systems which aim to allow users to alter the appearance of a site and to hear the text. None of them is as good as your products, and I am proud to be able to offer them. Many neurodifferent people (those who are dyslexic, for example) prefer hearing text to reading it. The internet is very text-heavy, and my site is no exception. I believe it is a fundamental principle of web accessibility that sites should offer easy-to-use speech options. The same applies to simple ways to change the way a site looks. It is becoming more common for sites to offer limited help with this, but nothing beats the Textic Toolbars!

We have added the Talklets toolbar facility to our website to make it more accessible to visitors with visual impairments. As the trade organisation for the UK printing industry we strongly support any developments that will assist people individuals to access and enjoy the written word - regardless of whether it appears in printed or electronic form