About Recite Me

We’ve added the Recite Me Assistive Toolbar to Health for Kids and Health for Kids: Grownups, enabling our website to become digitally inclusive by allowing visitors to customise our content so that you can consume it in ways that work best for you.

By clicking on the blue circular icon on the bottom right hand corner of the page, you will launch the Recite Me Assistive Toolbar that will dock to the top of the screen and stay there as you scroll down the page.

You will then have access to the many accessibility features offered by Recite Me, including:

Text-to-speech

285 million people worldwide have a visual impairment, providing the text to speech feature will help website visitors 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. Through Recite Me, you can translate 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.

 

Customisation and text styling

15% of the world’s population is neurodivergent. Recite Me allows you to change the way our website looks. You are able to customise our 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 you, the Recite Me 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 you, the Recite Me web accessibility toolbar provides three main tools; magnifier, 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.

 

Recite Me has created a comprehensive user guide featuring a breakdown of the different functions you will find on the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts as well as answers to some frequently asked questions. Click here to view the Recite Me Toolbar user guide.