User Guide

A comprehensive guide to the Recite Me Accessibility Toolbar, featuring a breakdown of its functions, FAQs, and keyboard shortcuts.

Recite Me is an innovative cloud-based software that lets visitors view and use our website in a way that works best for them. You can access the Recite Me Assistive Toolbar by selecting <ADD YOUR BUTTON NAME> in <BUTTON LOCATION>. 

Text-to-Speech

285 million people worldwide have a visual impairment, providing Recite Me's text-to-speech feature will help our website visitors to perceive and understand our digital content by reading aloud website text, which can be customised to suit the viewer.

Back: Rewind to the previous paragraph of text.
Play: Click the Play button to read the text aloud.
Forward: Skip forward to the next paragraph of text.
Download Audio: Highlight a section of text and download it as an audio file to consume offline.

Translation

One in ten people don’t speak English as their first language. Recite Me web accessibility technology quickly and easily translates our web content into over 100 languages, including 65 text-to-speech voices.

• Language: Translate text into a different language.
• Play: Click the play button to read translated text aloud.

Text Styling & Customisation

15% of the world’s population is neurodivergent. Recite Me assistive technology allows our website visitors to change the way a website looks. Users can customise the website’s colour scheme as well as the text, font style, size, colour, and spacing.

• Decrease: This will decrease the text size.
• Font: Choose from a range of fonts and customise line height, spacing and size.
• Increase: This will increase the text size.
• Colour: Customise the colour palette of a website, including the background, text and link colours.
• Focus Text: Emphasise the most critical parts of words, to guide the eyes smoothly through the text.

Focus Tools

While reading content it can sometimes be hard to focus on one area. To simplify use and support our website visitors, the Recite Me web accessibility toolbar provides five main tools; ruler, screen mask, text-only mode, margins, and cursor options.

• Ruler: Use the reading ruler to stay focused on lines of content.
• Cursor Options: Customise the cursor size and colour to help focus on page location.
• Screen Mask: Filter out unnecessary distractions to focus on the content you want to read.
• Text-Only Mode: Removes all images, video and design leaving text and links to consume.
• Margins: While in text-only mode reposition text on the screen to aid ease of reading.

Reading Aids

774 million people in the world cannot read or write, and 10% of people have a learning disability, so reading content online can be a challenge for some people. To simplify use and support our website visitors, the Recite Me web accessibility toolbar provides three main tools; a magnifier, a page summariser and a dictionary.

• Dictionary: Easily highlight a word and find the definition on the page.

• Page Summariser: Eliminate unnecessary content, to surface core information to easily understand at different reading ages.

• Magnifier: Like the offline world, zoom x2 onto a section of the website page to aid reading.

Settings

Edit the user settings of the Recite Me toolbar, including reading speed and voice type, reset the toolbar to factory defaults, and explore in-depth how to use it.

• Settings: Adjust your Recite Me Toolbar settings.
• Reset: This will restore the default settings.
• User Guide: This will give you an overview of the Recite Me Toolbar Features.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Tab – to move to the next toolbar button.
• Shift+Tab – to go backwards
• Spacebar – to select a button and to change toggles
• ctrl+right – play next element
• ctrl+left – Play previous element
• ctrl+alt+p – play the current element
• ctrl+alt+f – show font menu
• ctrl+alt+c – show theme menu
• ctrl+r – Enable/Disable ruler
• ctrl+d – Enable/Disable dictionary
• ctrl+l – Show translation languages
• ctrl+x – Enable/Disable text-only mode
• ctrl+m – Show page margin settings
• ctrl+shift+o – Show/Disable settings menu
• ctrl+s – Save settings

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need to download anything to enable Recite Me?

A: No. Recite Me is cloud-based software so there is no need to install anything on your computer.

Q: How do I launch the Recite Me Toolbar?

A: To Launch the Recite Me Web accessibility toolbar you will need to click on the Recite Me button. This will then launch the toolbar, which will appear at the top of the page.

Q: How Do I Disable the Auto Read?

A: To disable the auto read you need to click on the button marked “Settings”. This will give you a list of 3 functions to choose from. You need to click on the bottom to the Right of the option marked “Autoplay” This will then disable auto-read.

Q: Does Recite Me work across different operating systems and mobile devices?

A: Yes. Our software works on multiple devices and operating systems including Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, and Windows devices.

Q: Can I save my Settings?

A: The Recite Me toolbar uses cookies to save user settings.

Q: How do I change the Language?

A: To change the language of the website that you are viewing you need to select the button marked “Languages”. This will then produce a drop-down list of all the languages that Recite offers. Find the language that you want from the list and press on it, the site will then be converted to that language.

Q: How do I create an MP3?

A: To create an MP3, first turn off the Autoplay option located within the settings button. Highlight the section of Text that you wish to create into an MP3. Once highlighted select the Download Audio button from the toolbar. You will then see a message telling you that your file is being created. Once created you will see the file appear ready at the bottom of the web page. You can now either listen to the file created or save it to a location of your choice.

Q: How do I Turn Recite Me Off?

A: To Close the Recite toolbar simply click on the icon marked “Close” to the right of the Toolbar.

If you have any questions about Recite Me you can contact them via email at info@reciteme.com or call 0191 432 8092.