ChromeVox
- Open source screen reader in the form of a Chrome extension
- Automatically installed on all Chrome devices
- Easy to install in the browser
- Recognizes the structure of the web page and reproduces it to the user in the form of speech
Advantages
- Easy to install and handle
Disadvantages
- Only available for the Chrome browser
- Most pages are not optimized for speech recognition
Why ChromeVox?
ChromeVox gives people with visual impairments in particular the opportunity to have any type of text simply read out as voice output. This makes their lives significantly easier. An introduction to the tool follows in the video.