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Accessibility
1 B4 ALL as a group of companies is committed to making its online services as accessible as possible to all members of society, in line with commercial best practice and the current Disability Discrimination Act.
These ASSISTED ACCESS pages have been designed to make our website easier to use for Five main groups of people:
- People with sensory impairment, e.g. partial or complete blindness, colour blindness or who have difficulty when viewing certain types of graphical image - if you are such a person we have provided text only summary pages of our services - please access by clicking on the link for the service area you require. We have also speech enabled this website - to enable your computer to provide this facility for you please go to the section below marked BROWSEALOUD.
- People with other disabilities, e.g. arthritis, which makes it difficult to use a mouse or other pointing device - We have speech enabled this website to reduce the input required from you to access the contents of the site - to enable your computer to provide this facility for you please go to the section below marked BROWSEALOUD.
- People with special educational needs who may find lengthy or complicated websites hard to use - if you are such a person we have provided text only summary pages of our services - please access by clicking on the link for the service area you require. You may also find it helpful to access the site through the speech-enabled facility - to enable this please go to the section below marked BROWSEALOUD.
- People without access to the latest specification, computer hardware or software - if you are such a person we have provided text only summary pages of our services - please access by clicking on the link for the service area you require. We have also speech enabled this website - to enable your computer to provide this facility for you please go to the section below marked BROWSEALOUD.
- People for whom English is not their first language - If you are such a person and have difficulty in fully understanding the English text content of our website we have equipped this site with the ability to have the English text translated into a number of other languages through an external translation program - we hope that by having a translation available in a language with which you are more familiar alongside the English text you find our site easier to understand. To access a translated version of our site please click your mouse on a national flag that you recognise - you'll find these at the bottom of any page. If you find it easier to understand spoken rather than written English then we have speech enabled this website - to enable your computer to use this facility please go to the section marked BROWSEALOUD.
WE DO HOPE THAT OUR EFFORTS TO ASSIST YOUR ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE ARE HELPFUL.
Our work on assisted access has enabled us to gain an accreditation as it achieves Bobby Level A Approval for accessibility - to find out more click on the logo below
BROWSEALOUD
This website is now speech-enabled, which means that you can download free software onto your personal computer and have the site read aloud to you. The free software is called Browsealoud, and is used on over 2000 websites in the UK and USA. Browsealoud is a Windows browser plug-in designed for use with Internet Explorer 4 upwards or Netscape Navigator. If you install the Browsealoud plug-in onto your PC, you can have the web pages on the 1 B4 ALL website (and other sites that are speech-enabled) read to you.
Downloading Browsealoud
Click on the image below and you will be taken to an external site where you will find full instructions to carry out the download and installation. A Browsealoud icon will be placed in your system tray which is at the bottom right of your browser.
Why speech-enable our website?
Speech enabling our website provides an additional way of accessing our content for people who find it hard to read. This includes those with dyslexia or learning difficulties, those for whom English is not their first language, or anyone with a mild visual impairment. It is not designed to replace other screen readers.
What is Browsealoud?
Browsealoud is a solution that allows you to have website content read to you. As you move the cursor over text, it is spoken aloud. Browsealoud is free to download and you have control over the voice, word pronunciations and speech highlighting.
How does it work?
You download a free, small browser plug-in. Once the plug-in has been installed, content on this site can be spoken aloud.
Does it work on all pages?
Browsealoud will read every webpage on our site. It can also read pdf files in Adobe Reader Version 6.0 onwards. This meets the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) Level A guidelines for accessibility. Can I customise Browsealoud?Yes. Once plugged in, look for the Browsealoud icon in your system tray, which is usually at the bottom right hand corner of your screen (beside the system clock). Right click on the icon and choose 'open Browsealoud settings' from the menu. The speech tab on the settings window enables you to choose a male or female voice, and change the speed, pitch and volume of the reader. To read the entire page from where your cursor points, check the 'Continue reading from pointer' box. Otherwise Browsealoud will only read the individual sentences you point to. For further help and assistance with the Browsealoud product take a look at the Browsealoud FAQs on their website.
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