Accessibility on our website
If you need extra support reading our website, the ReachDeck toolbar offers speech, reading and translation support. 1 in 7 people have some form of disability and we believe that everyone should access our website easily and independently. The features include:
- Text to speech: select any text to hear it read aloud and download an MP3 audio file.
- Translation: translate content into over 100 languages.
- Picture dictionary: display pictures related to text selected on the page.
- Screen mask: reduce glare with a tinted mask.
- Webpage simplifier: remove clutter from the screen. Display only the main text.
- Text magnifier: enlarge text and hear it read aloud.
You can watch this short video which explains how to use the ReachDeck toolbar features or find out more about how to use the features below.
Text to speech
To hear the text on the page, use the play and stop icons. Playback starts from the beginning, or you can highlight a section to be read aloud. To download audio, select your text and click the MP3 icon on the ReachDeck toolbar.
Translation
To translate the page, select the symbols icon on the ReachDeck toolbar and a dropdown will appear. Select the language you require and it will automatically translate the page. If you need an interpreter, please contact us.
Picture dictionary
To use image search, highlight a word with your mouse and select the image icon on the ReachDeck toolbar. A picture dictionary will appear to explain what the word means in pictures.
Screen mask
To help you focus, the screen mask icon highlights a rectangular section of the screen. The ruler darkens the rectangular section and is like reading a page using a ruler to follow line by line.
Text magnifier
To make the text larger, when it is read aloud using the text to speech function, select the text magnifier icon on the Reachdeck toolbar. You can change the size of the magnified text in the settings menu.
Webpage simplifier
To help you focus, simplify mode removes distracting menus and boxes from a page and leaves just the article. It is useful for reading long pages of text as well as printing pages.
Website navigation
If you prefer to use a keyboard rather than a mouse to move around our website, you can:
- Use the arrowkeys to move up and down or left to right on a page.
- Press Tab and Enter to look at and click on menus or links.
Reading PDFs on our website
We use PDFs (Portable Document Format) on our website. To read a PDF, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. If you don’t have it already, it’s simple and free to download.
Feedback on our website
We want to make our website easy to use for everyone. If you have any feedback about our website, please contact us.
Our website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.