St Elizabeth Hospice has taken a significant step forward in its commitment to digital inclusion by making our website fully accessible with the Recite Me Toolbar.
This addition ensures that every website visitor, regardless of their individual needs, can browse, engage, and access online content without barriers.
Below is a user guide on all the features and how to access the toolbar.
To activate the toolbar:
Please note, we make every effort to ensure that any written translation is as accurate as possible, but cannot guarantee that there won’t be some small errors or mis-use of words with similar meanings in different languages.
| Icon | Assists with | What it does |
|---|---|---|
 | Text-to-Speech | Helps our website visitors to perceive and understand our digital content by reading aloud website text, which can be customised to suit the viewer. Enable/disable: Check or uncheck the Text-to-Speech option to turn the feature on or off Play automatically: Enable this option to have text read aloud when you hover over it Read whole page: Select this to play and read all content on the page continuously Player controls: Click the Text-to-Speech icon to open options. Play/stop: Use the play or stop icon to start or pause the speech playback. Rewind & fast forward: Use these controls to skip through large sections of text Play previous/next section: Use these to play the next or previous section of text. |
 | Text & Styling Tools | Change Font: Change the font of the text on page |
 | Text & Styling Tools | Focus Text Mode: Highlight half of a word in bold to improve readability |
 | Text & Styling Tools | Increase Size: Increase text size |
 | Text & Styling Tools | Decrease Size: Decrease text size |
| Text & Styling Tools | Language Options: Translate content into any language |
 | Text & Styling Tools | Colour Options: Customise background colour and text colour |
 | Focus Tools | Enable Ruler: Adds a ruler to the page to make reading easier |
 | Focus Tools | Cursor Options: Increase or decrease cursor size and edit colour |
 | Focus Tools | Enable Screen Mask: Focus on a specific section of the website |
 | Focus Tools | Page Options: Includes pause animations, hide images, view image text and plain text mode |
 | Focus Tools | Page Structure: Allows you to navigate the site via landmarks, headings and links |
 | Reading Aids | Use Dictionary: Search for definitions of words on the page |
 | Reading Aids | Page Summary: Summarise all content on a page into a paragraph |
 | Reading Aids | Simplified Content: Making content easier to read whilst keeping the key messages |
 | Other | Download Reader Audio: Download sections of the text to speech audio |
 | Other | Reset Toolbar: Reset the website to its default state |
 | Other | Accessibility Statement: View our accessibility statement, launch this tutorial and see more about ReciteMe. |
No. Recite Me is cloud-based software, so there is no need to install anything on your computer.
To launch the Recite Me Web Assistive Toolbar, you will need to click on the launch button.
To activate the toolbar:
This will then launch the toolbar, which will appear at the top of the page.
Yes. The software works on multiple devices and operating systems, including Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, and Windows devices.
The Recite Me Toolbar uses cookies to save user settings.
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, and the site will then be converted to that language.
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.
To close the Recite Me 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 [email protected] or call 0191 432 8092.
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