webpage text to speech options

[AHarvey]

Hi all,

I've been asked to look at making some signs accessible to visual impaired people. I've images of the signs and can use windows text to speech to read it while recording it as an avi. Then hosting this online and linking to it.

However, the videos are large, look a little pap and i'm trying to make them as mobile (data) friendly as possible.

I can hope that they have a text to speech app installed on their phones and chances are they will, but does anyone know how it is possible to take a basic html page with no styling, and then get it to somehow launch the text to speech that is already built into mobiles?

 

[AHarvey]

yeah screenreaders read all the text and alt images, I was just wondering what the best option would be if they didn't have a screen reader installed on their phone.

I've spent the afternoon messing around with it and managed to get a couple of ideas running.

One uses speechSynthesis.speak, this works to around 300 characters on a PC and then stops, but oddly works fine on a mobile.

The other was to launch an mp3 on page load, which worked perfectly on the desktop but doesn't on mobile.

Next step for me is to work with a mobile framework like bootstrap