Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Visitors Can Now Listen to Your Website

Released on = June 28, 2005, 10:08 am

Press Release Author = Glenda Watson Hyatt / Soaring Eagle Communications

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Until now it has been difficult, if not impossible, for those with disabilities that affect reading to access and enjoy the Internet.
Browsealoud, an innovative new audio solution developed by TextHelp Systems Inc., is expanding horizons for users with disabilities while increasing reading retention levels for those without challenges. The subscription based application reads website content aloud for visitors.

Press Release Body = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Visitors Can Now Listen to Your Website

Surrey, BC – June 28, 2005 – Until now it has been difficult, if not impossible, for those with disabilities that affect reading to access and enjoy the Internet.
Browsealoud, an innovative new audio solution developed by TextHelp Systems Inc., is expanding horizons for users with disabilities while increasing reading retention levels for those without challenges. The subscription based application reads website content aloud for visitors. Early adaptors of the new service include Google, MSN, Yahoo, Canada.com, Canada Benefits, the Learning Disabilities
Association of Canada, and the Independent Living Resource Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland.

As an authorized Canadian reseller of Browsealoud, Soaring Eagle Communications' Principal Glenda Watson Hyatt says, "With the increasing need of creating websites that are accessible to people with disabilities, the needs of those individuals who
have difficulty reading, for whatever reason, are often overlooked. Browsealoud offers a simple solution by allowing these individuals to simply listen as web
content is read aloud to them. It means the web now opens up opportunities to them that didn't exist before. It is actually quite exciting, quite liberating."

Browsealoud reads aloud the actual content on the site, highlighting the text as it reads allowing the approximately 17% of the population who have difficulty reading to understand website content for the first time. The application also represents a
significant benefit to other users, since studies have shown that people remember only 10% of what they read, only 20% of what they hear, and remember 50% of what they both read and hear.

Having a physical disability and speech impairment herself, Watson Hyatt appreciates how the Internet has created exciting new opportunities for her and others with disabilities. Now, the Internet is being opened to others who have been overlooked
as being "disabled". Browsealoud is intended for website users who have a learning or cognitive disability, a mild visual impairment, low literacy skills or who are ESL.

Browsealoud is a subscription-based solution that uses accessibility techniques to access and speak content from websites. It is unique in its delivery concept in that there is no requirement for any additional software installation on an organization's website. The organization pays an annual subscription to speech enable the website and visitors download a free plug-in to listen to the website content.

Watson Hyatt adds, "To speech enable a site can be done in a matter of minutes. No coding or programming is necessary. Sites can be enabled to read aloud in English or French, depending upon the language of the site."

Soaring Eagle Communications specializes in web accessibility, enabling all users to utilize websites, regardless of personal capability or technology used.

To arrange an interview with Watson Hyatt or to learn more about web accessibility email Glenda@webaccessibility.biz. More information can also be accessed at www.webaccessibility.biz.

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For further information:
Glenda Watson Hyatt, Principal
Soaring Eagle Communications
Email: Glenda@webaccessibility.biz
Web: www.webaccessibility.biz

Web Site = http://www.webaccessibility.biz

Contact Details = Glenda Watson Hyatt, Principal
Soaring Eagle Communications
Email: Glenda@webaccessibility.biz
Web: www.webaccessibility.biz
Phone: 604-582-3428 (email preferred)
Suite 316, 13910 - 101st Avenue
Surrey, BC V3T 1L6