BACKGROUND
The new County of Lennox & Addington web site was officially launched at the June 23rd meeting of Council. Information Services staff continue to actively work on the site, not only updating information, but also adding new material and enhancing the site through a number of special features.

Accessibility Assistive Technology
The County is committed to providing a web site that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. To that end, a new feature called “Browse Aloud” is being added to the web site. The County subscribes to the service and there is no cost to the user. This feature will be officially launched at the Joint Meeting of Lennox & Addington and Hastings Accessibility Advisory Committees, on September 29, 2010.

Browse Aloud is an assistive technology tool which is designed to help the “print disabled community” to read and understand web pages and interact online. This feature is particularly helpful to users with mild visual impairments, literacy difficulties, such as dyslexia, and for users for whom English is a second language.

FUNCTIONALITY

Browse Aloud functionality includes:

Read Aloud/Hover Highlighting – Browse Aloud allows web site visitors the option of having web site content read aloud. The user can hear web pages and have words highlighted as spoken. The user has control over the voice, speech highlighting, and word pronunciations; user moves mouse pointer over text to hear it being read aloud; words are highlighted as spoken

Text Selection/Magnification – Browse Aloud can be customized to read whole web pages or select specific text; allows users to magnify text to selected font size and style

Translation – Browse Aloud can translate word-for-word between English, French, Spanish, Italian and German and translations are read aloud in corresponding languages

Dictionary –accurate definitions are provided

Screen Masking – user can add combination of filter colours to either the whole screen or a letterbox reading window or use as an “electronic ruler”

MP3 Maker – The County can make MP3 files to host and stream directly from the web site or visitors can convert online text to MP3 and listen to it on the move

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