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If you call or meet with someone at a State MND Association, we can provide a free interpreter. Call the MND Info Line on 1800 777 175 to find out more.
Language and accessibility
We are making information about motor neurone disease (MND) and support services easy to find, easy to use, and open to everyone. This is known as accessibility.
Choose how you read or listen
Recite Me helps you read, hear, and follow the information in a way that works for you. It also gives information in different languages.
Some language translations may not be correct. Please talk to your doctor or another healthcare professional before making decisions about your care.
Desktop users: click the language and accessibility icon in the top right of the screen."
This toolbar will open:
Mobile users: click the language and accessibility icon.
You can also open the tool from the menu icon in the top right-hand corner, then click the language and accessibility icon:
The toolbar lets you use:
- text to speech so you can listen instead of read.
- audio download to listen later, even without internet.
- translation to read or listen in another language.
- short summaries to make information easier to understand.
- text size, colour, and spacing choices to make reading easier.
- reading tools like screen masks and rulers to help you stay focused.
How to use the tool
- Back: Rewind to listen to the last paragraph of text.
- Play: Click the play button to read the text aloud.
- Forward: Skip forward to the next paragraph of text
- Download Audio: Choose a section of text and download it as an audio file to listen offline.
- Adjust the voice and reading speed: Change the voice from male to female and change reading speed through the Text to Speech drop-down menu.
- Language: Translate text into a different language.
- Play: Click the play button to read translated text aloud.
Note: The term MND (motor neurone disease) is set in this tool. In some languages, this may cause small translation issues. Thank you for your understanding. - For more examples, see the Recite Me user guide (Australia).
- Decrease: This will decrease the text size.
- Font: Choose from a range of fonts and choose line height, spacing and size.
- Focus Text: Uses darker coloured text to highlight parts of words, to guide the eyes through the text.
- Increase: This will increase the text size.
- Colour: Customise the colour of background, text and link colours on the website.
- Ruler: Use the reading ruler to stay focused on the information.
- Cursor options: Choose the cursor size and colour to help focus on its location.
- Screen mask: Blocks content with solid colour to help you focus on the information you want to read.
- Text-only mode: Removes all images, video and design leaving text and links only.
- Margins: While in text-only mode, reposition text on the screen to aid ease of reading.
- Dictionary: Highlight a word and see the meaning.
- Page summariser: Get only the most important information.
- Magnifier: Makes words bigger in a chosen section
- Settings: Change your Recite Me toolbar settings.
- Reset: This will restore the default settings.
- User Guide: Gives an overview of the Recite Me toolbar features.
Frequently asked questions
Click on the “Language and accessibility” button. This will launch the toolbar, which will appear at the top of the page.
Click this button.
Untick the boxes marked ‘Text to Speech (On/Off)’ and ‘Play Automatically’.
Click this button.
You will see a list of languages. In the search bar, type the language you want or find it in the list, and click on it. The information will then be changed to that language.
Click on the icon marked “X” to the right of the toolbar.
Tell us what you think
Or email us with your ideas and feedback: [email protected]
If you are not happy with how we have responded, you can make a formal complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
Tell us how we can make our information better
We want our information to be available and useful to everyone who needs it.
If you have problems getting the information you need, please contact us and we will do our best to give that information to you in another way or format.