Over one billion people worldwide experience difficulties with reading and understanding content online. At the National Autistic Society, we are constantly looking at ways to make sure our website is as accessible as possible. 

Recite Me web accessibility toolbar

The Recite Me toolbar offers an extensive range of support tools, which can be launched by clicking the 'Accessibility options' link at the top of our webpages.

Key features include:

• a screen reader which reads out text content on webpages and in PDFs

• an interactive dictionary

• a tool which translates webpage and PDF text content into 120 different languages, 60 of which also have the screen reader feature

• an extensive colour palette which users can set and save to their own personal preferences

• a wide range of fonts, including the Open Dyslexic font

• options for increasing and decreasing the text size, line height, and the spacing between characters 

• a screen ruler and screen mask to support with reading webpage content

• a plain text mode which shows the text on a webpage, without the usual visual elements

• a magnifying glass.