Listen to the Hull City Council website with BrowseAloud

Visitors to the Hull City Council website may listen to the content by using BrowseAloud. BrowseAloud is a free tool which is used to speech enable a website. It may assist the following -

• people with low literacy and reading skills
• people for whom English is not their first language
• people with dyslexia
• people with a mild visual impairment

To read more about BrowseAloud visit the website at www.browsealoud.com

To install the software, please follow this link BrowseAloud downloads and choose between BrowseAloud (PC) and BrowseAloud Plus versions.

BrowseAloud Plus

BrowseAloud Plus is free and you don't need to download anything - simply select the green button on the image below. BrowseAloud Plus works on PC, Mac and mobile devices (including smartphones and tablets).

BrowseAloud Plus delivers high quality speech to help those with dyslexia, literacy difficulties, mild visual impairments and where English is a second language when browsing the web. Its features and options are accessed from an easy to use, floating toolbar. They include -

• play by 'Hover highlighting'
• play by 'Text selection'
• pause
• stop
• power on/off

Recommended browsers and platforms for BrowseAloud Plus

• Internet Explorer 9 or 8
• Firefox 4 or above
• Chrome
• Safari
• Safari on iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
• Android

BrowseAloud (PC)

• text to speech
• dual-colour highlighting of text
• personalise voice
• text magnification
• talking dictionary
• talking translator
• screen mask
• MP3 maker
• reads secure web pages
• reads PDF documents
• freephone support
• user guide
• video

Recommended browsers and platforms for BrowseAloud (PC)

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox

Using BrowseAloud (PC)

BrowseAloud (PC) will install a floating toolbar which allows you to choose from the different available functions. For more information please visit the BrowseAloud website - BrowseAloud (PC) details.

Uninstalling BrowseAloud

Should you wish to uninstall BrowseAloud, full instructions are available on how to do this from the uninstall section of the BrowseAloud website.