Embedded Highlighting

Embedded Highlighting is an add-on for the ReadSpeaker® Enterprise™ solution “Expanding Player”. Embedded Highlighting is a useful add-on for text-rich websites where accessibility is of high importance for users with reading disabilities. The Embedded Highlighting features reinforce a better understanding of the text being read.

By clicking the Listen-button, the add-on enables the website visitor to see synchronized highlighting of the text that is currently being read, on a word by word and/or sentence by sentence basis depending on the setting that the website visitor has selected.

Screenshot of ReadSpeaker Expanding Player with Embedded Highlighting

Alternatively, when someone selects text prior to clicking on the Listen button, a mini player will show up providing immediate access to the listen function.

Screenshot of ReadSpeaker mini player

The setting that the visitor has selected is saved as a cookie so that the service will have the same behaviour when the visitor starts the app again. 

Embedded Highlighting can also be used on the iPhone/iPad by using an HTML5 player per default when Mobile Apple devices are used.

Screenshot of HTML5 player in iPhone

Other features that the Embedded Highlighting add-on offers are:

• Updated HTML code in the player which consists of 100% valid elements according to W3C's recommendations.
• Improved highlighting engine which highlights words and/or sentences even better than in the previous version.
• Support for reading dynamic generated content, such as AJAX or Javascript, can easily be switched on.
• Auto detection and support for HTTPS web sites.
• Support for multiple players on the same page.
• More stable style sheets that do not conflict with websites' existing CSS.
• New mechanisms that make it easier to customize default behavior and appearance.

You can try the Embedded Highlighting feature by clicking on the Listen button at the top of this page as well as on all other pages of this web site. Contact us to find out more.