Image and figures extracted from Recite Me website.

Thursday, May 19, 2022, marked the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone discussing, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.

The ARC NWC website user group met for the first time in April and voted to renew innovative cloud-based software Recite Me to ensure the ARC NWC website is inclusive and accessible to all users and lets visitors view and use our website in a way that works best for them.

The pioneering tool bar helps the one in five people in the UK who have a disability, including those with common conditions like sight loss and dyslexic. It also meets the needs of the one in ten people in the UK who don’t speak English as their first language, by being able to translate the ARC NWC web content into over 100 different languages.

How does Recite Me help me access the ARC NWC website?
Recite Me helps people to access our website to find information they need like accessing publications, reading blogs or news articles and exploring more about ARC NWC themes, Public Advisors and research projects.

The Recite Me toolbar has a unique range of functions. You can use it to:
• Have the text on our website read aloud (including PDFs)
• Download the text as an MP3 file to play it where and when it suits you
• Change font sizes and colours
• Customise background colour
• Translate text into more than 100 different languages
• Access a fully integrated dictionary and thesaurus
You can find out more about how Recite Me works from the Recite Me user guide.

Can I get support with Recite Me?
If you are having issues turning Recite Me off, please change your settings to reflect the picture below, your web browser should remember your settings.