Reading Supports

Google Chrome Browser Extensions:

• Read & Write for Google: Accessibility toolbar includes text-to-speech on the Web and in Google Drive.
• ClaroSpeak: Speak any text on a website by selecting it, point with the mouse to hear text and links and captions, or click Play to hear sentences read out with highlighting to let you keep track of where you are. Will also give text-to-speech feedback as you type (character, word, & sentence).
• Magic Scroll Webreader: Simplifies web pages and turns every page on the site into a MagicScroll book.
• Reader View: Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability.
• AlphaText: Customize and change the appearance of online articles to enhance text readability.
• 3asyR: An interactive online tool that will help to read online by underlining and highlighting material on online texts, with dyslexic font option.
• Easy Reader: Allows the user the ability to customize and improve the readability of long web articles. Color, size, fonts and more are fully customizable.
• Helper Bird: Provides the ability to change the font and style of a website to help with dyslexia by making it easier to read.
• Mercury Reader: Reduces clutter on a web page.
• Announcify: Text-to-speech web reader. It will read websites, but requires you to install a Text-to-Speech voice from the Google Chromestore to work. It also simplifies the page and opens it in a new window and blurs out the paragraphs above and below what is currently being read to reduce more distractions.
• Speechify: Just highlight the text you want to read and listen/read at the same time. The user can also text entire pages from the browser to a phone number as mobile mini-audiobooks.
• Beeline Reader: Uses a color gradient to guide your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. The BeeLine extension works on millions of news websites and blogs, and you can even use it to read Kindle books, Google Doc, and Gmail. You can also get the PDF extension which works on any text-based PDF.
• Dictionary: Highlight words to get definition and read out loud.

Websites:

• Rewordify: Copy and paste text to this free website. It will simplify difficult text.
• Textcompactor: Copy and paste text into this free online automatic text summarization tool.
• Wikipedia Simple English: The Simple English Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written in basic English. Articles use shorter sentences and simpler words and grammar than the English Wikipedia.
• Summarize This: Copy and paste text to summarize.
• Smmry: Paste in text or URL for concise summary.

iOS Apps:

• Claro Scanpen: Use this app to take a photo of your printed text document, letter, test paper - then select the text with your finger (or stylus), and hear it spoken straight back to you. Instantly! No internet connection required. It combines Claro speak and pdf into one seamless app.