Have your website read aloud

For those who are looking at providing accessible solutions for the disabled, especially the visually impaired, there is a website that allows you to automatically turn your RSS feeds into a fairly acceptable audio clip. It is read aloud by a pleasing-to-the-ear female voice too!

What this means is that you will be able to invite the visually impaired to your site and have them keep abreast of your news content. Here at Integricity, we are currently integrating this functionality with The Nut Graph, a Malaysian news site that employs the slogan “Making sense of news and politics“.

After a fair amount of R&D and looking for a web-based screen reader, this solution seemed the most viable for their needs. You can check out the site that is aptly called, Talkr.com. The core of this site is to enable publishers to convert their text content into podcasts automatically, but we at Integricity have decided that it’s good enough to aid the disabled and have endeavoured to test it out.

Here’s a sneak preview (or rather, sneak listen) for an article that is published on The Nut Graph.