Reading Assistance

Reading assistance refers to technologies and strategies that help people understand written text more easily. This includes tools like text-to-speech, automatic text simplification, screen readers, reading rulers, and dictionary lookups. For accessibility, reading assistance is critical for people with dyslexia, cognitive disabilities, low literacy, and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals for whom the written language may be a second language. These tools can operate at the lexical level (simplifying vocabulary), syntactic level (restructuring sentences), or both.