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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Oct 15, 2018 7:55AM

Hi all,

A customer wants us to add speech synthesis to their website. They
want to be able to highlight a block of text on the page that could be
anything from a single character to a whole paragraph, and have it
read aloud.

I can't think how to implement this functionality using a keyboard,
apart from making the whole page into a contenteditable div, which
would be a big no-no.

Is there any dyslexia software that offers this type of keyboard
navigation? If so that would give me a starting point at least.

I'd really appreciate any thoughts you can come up with.

Cheers, Isabel