Strategy: TextHelp Read and Write and colour changes
7 Keywords: Colour Changes, Background Colour, Text Colour, Texthelp Read And Write, Visual Stress, Meares-Irlen Syndrome, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
"Sometimes I find reading on the screen easier, like the [Texthelp] Read and Write software that I have, highlights it yellow, when it’s reading it and sometimes I find that's easier to read if I’m tired because my eyes go a bit funny."
"Sometimes words just go a bit blurry in different colours, but with more stark contrasts like bright colours I sometimes see easier.... I have made a PowerPoint presentation (download 2.4Mb) that shows how I have changed my desktop and Word documents with instructions in the speaker notes. " Here is a video of the same slides or there is an HTML version
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"I play around with colour occasionally. Sometimes it is easier to read if I’m tired... I put yellow with blue for things but it depends on the day!"
- Sarah DTip
WordTalk is a free toolbar addition for Microsoft Word. It reads back text and highlights words as it goes. The program includes a dictionary with text to speech to help with vocabulary and spelling.
