Recite Me accessibility toolbar
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How Recite Me can help you access this website
Recite Me is a website accessibility toolbar helping you to customise your experience of barnet.gov.uk, allowing you to choose how you interact with content and services.
The Recite Me toolbar has a range of functions, you can use it to:
- read aloud the text on the website including PDFs and other documents
- download the text as an MP3 file to play it where and when it suits you
- get focused viewing of a section of a web page using screen mask options
- magnify text on the screen
- change font style, size and colours
- customise your background colour
- translate text into more than 100 languages and read aloud translated text in 65 languages
- access a dictionary and thesaurus
The user guide will give you an overview of the Recite Me toolbar features.
Check the Recite Me user guide
Launch Recite Me accessibility toolbar
Recite Me toolbar features
Screen reader tools
To simplify and help your reading experience on the Barnet website you can use Recite Me screen reading tools:
- play button, use the play button to hear the text aloud
- back button, rewind to the previous paragraph of text
- forward button, skip forward to the next paragraph of text
- download audio button, highlight the text to download text as an audio file
Text reading options
Select text reading options using the:
- decrease button, this will decrease the text size
- font button, you can change the font that displays on the page
- increase button, this will increase the text size
- screen mask button, will create a letterbox for focused viewing of a section of the page
- magnifier button, click and drag the magnifying glass to magnify text on the screen
- margins button, change the text dimensions by narrowing the width of the text column
- ruler button, click to enable the reading ruler
- dictionary button, highlight and click on this to find the definition of the word
Translation tools
Use the translation feature to change the words into your chosen language and have that read out aloud.
Customise the information with style tools
Customise the style of webpage with your preferred font type, font size and colours, using the:
- colour button, change the background, text and link colours
- text mode, remove images and view in plain text mode
Contact us about Recite Me on Barnet's website
If you have any questions about Recite Me you can contact us by email at webmaster@barnet.gov.uk