Posts tagged with 'Accessibility'

For many dyslexics such as myself, reading can be an arduous task. I was unable to read a book until I was 15, I can still remember walking through the London Underground with my parents, not having a clue what any of the writing on the posters said.  Even now! I find large amounts  of … Read more about ‘Let the computer read for you’

At university, the one thing more time-consuming than writing essays is writing the Bibliography for the essay.  Thankfully, long gone are the days when during an essay you  had to write your Bibliography manually,  which meant writing the author’s name, the year of publication in brackets, next to  your quote the go all the way … Read more about ‘Bibliographies’

As part of my second year university course, we have to do a Careers module. The motives for this course  are good as it is obviously to encourage us to start thinking about and planning for the future.  Part of the first assignment required us to do a personality test (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) which they … Read more about ‘Online should really mean ‘online’’

Regular readers of my blog will know I have a lot of difficulty with sustained reading.  I can read a few pages okay, or more if the subject matter is quite light.  However, I am studying Philosophy at university and the subject matter is seldom light. The effort it takes for me to read is … Read more about ‘How to ’screen read’ a locked PDF’

Due to my dyslexia, reading large amounts of text can be very difficult. To get round this problem, I usually use a text reader on the computer which reads aloud  to me. There are two main text readers I use, ClaroRead and the text reader built into Dragon Naturally Speaking. Both text readers are good … Read more about ‘ClaroRead and Dragon text readers’