Now available free of charge to UK schools, more than 100 Schools have already applied for ROKTalk
Leading text-to-speech service for websites to be given free of charge to
5,000 schools across the country in a £600,000 website accessibility and
usability initiative.
As you may have read last week, ROKTalk, the text-to-speech service for websites designed to
‘make websites talk’ through converting written text on websites into
real-time, real voice, audible speech, announced it is to gift the
service to up to 5,000 primary and secondary schools across the UK this year
through it’s not-for-profit organization, The ROK Foundation.
Under the terms of the plan, the first 5,000
schools to apply for the free service before 31st July will have it installed
and operational on their websites in time for the next school year in
September.
Schools may apply for the free
ROKTalk service to be added to their websites by completing the online
application form www.roktalk.com/school-signup.html
Approximately 10 million people, or 15% of the population, in the UK suffer
from some form of disability which presents them with a challenge, to a greater
or lesser extent, to internet access – resulting in a barrier to the
socio-economic benefits of being ‘web-enabled’. These disabilities
include dyslexia and cognitive and learning difficulties through to visual
impairments, including blindness.
ROKTalk has been specifically developed to take website accessibility and
usability to the next level through providing website owners with usability
functions to include cap-height adjustment and colour-contrast changers, in
addition to text-to-speech, as well as enabling website visitors to
download text as audible MP3 files.
“The enormous development in website accessibility and usability that
ROKTalk delivers is obvious, particularly for those with a learning disability
such as dyslexia and those who are visually impaired, but so is the fact that
most schools are hard-pressed financially with little or no budget to license
new technologies.” Said Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROKTalk. “This is why we have taken the
decision to give ROKTalk free of charge to as many schools across the country
as we can.”
ROKTalk, available free of charge to UK schools, is usually priced at between £120 and £2,500 per year depending on the
nature of the customer (whether they be Commercial, Governmental or
Charitable), the services they license and the number of visitors to their
websites.
The full ROKTalk service, currently being licensed to website owners worldwide,
includes a multi-language text-to-speech translation service.
Bruce Renny
Marketing Director
: bruce.renny@rokent.com
: +44 (0) 1902 374896 (T)
: +44 (0) 7774 005005 (M)
: +44 (0) 1902 374603 (Fx)
Rok Talk Limited, Rok House, Kingswood Business Park, Holyhead Road, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, WV7 3AU
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