ReadSpeaker

Read speaker is an accessibility tool for blackboard. It is for use by lecturers and students and has a number of accessibility features:

It will read text out so you can listen to it
Translate text into a number of languages
Reformat text
- Make text bigger
- Change the fount
- Simplify the text
- Change colours
Allow you to highlight areas of the screen to make reading easier

ReadSpeaker has two interfaces webReader and docReader

webReader will work on all native Blackboard content including the Blackboard interface

You activate webReader by clicking on the orange play button.

This can be found at the left of the window, or if you make a text selection it will appear near your selection. (Note: If you have edit mode turned on you may have problems selecting text)

Watch the video below to learn how to use the webReader