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Re: Best website plugin/embedded accessibility tool to read out text, change contrast etc?

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From: Jim Byrne Accessible Web Design
Date: Feb 3, 2022 8:11AM


Hi Dave,

It is good to have a competing view. So thanks for you input. I guess it's a trade-off. I've never been a fan of plugins that can potentially get in the way of the access tools that people already use. They may well help some people but hinder others.

Jim

> On 3 Feb 2022, at 14:58, Andrews, David B (DEED) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> You may be confusing so-called "overlays," that promise to make a web site accessible with the insertion of a line of Javascript, with various tools that allow the end-user to change things like read aloud or text size. The second category is not necessarily bad, and shouldn't be summarily dismissed.
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> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 5:36 AM Jim Byrne Accessible Web Design < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have been asked to install a website accessibility tool that
>> visitors can use to have the text read out to them (and change
>> contrast, text size etc). Regardless of whether these tools are a good
>> idea or not, what would you say are the best of the bunch?
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>> Thanks,
>> Jim
> > > > About Jim Byrne
With over two decades of experience Jim Byrne is one of the UK's most experienced practitioners in the area of accessible web design. Jim provided feedback during the development of WCAG 2 as part of the Guild of Accessible Website Designers. He is the author of a number of technical books, training courses and accessibility guides. Jim was a winner of the equal access category of the Global Bangemann Challenge.

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