From the course: Microsoft Office Accessibility for Beginners

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Have content read out loud

Have content read out loud

- [Instructor] In the last video, I showed you how to use the Immersive Reader to change font properties. And one of the things that you could do in the Immersive Reader was have your text read out loud to you. There's two other ways that you can access this feature besides getting into the Immersive Reader. In Microsoft Word, on the Home ribbon tab, you could click the Read Aloud button. You can also use the keyboard shortcut, Alt + Control + Space, to start it. The Read Aloud feature is going to highlight each word as it reads your document to you. Once you click the button, it's going to start reading. - [Reader] Slogan: digital goods for make-- - [Instructor] I'm immediately going to hit the pause button. If I click the speaker with the gear icon in it, it's going to go into settings. The two things that you can change here are the reading speed in which you can drag the slider to make the reading speed…

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