ATbar is a toolbar which provides users with a way of customising how they can view and interact with web pages. It allows users to increase the accessibility of a webiste by allowing users to increase and decrease font sizes, use coloured overlays, use a dictionary to aid reading and perform spellchecks when writing.

It is designed for those who may not have their assistive technologies to hand and need a quick way of accessing text on the screen with magnification and/or text to speech etc. It can help those with low vision, dyslexia and other reading difficulties, as well as those who may wish to just reduce the glare of black text on bright white backgrounds.

Instructions

To use ATbar look out for the logo on a web page and click it. Once clicked the toolbar below will appear.

This icon represents the Fix the web plug-in, which allows users to report problems to help sort out web accessibility issues.

Maximise and Minimise text These icons are used to increase or decrease the size of text.

Font changes This icon allows the font and line spacing to be changed.

This is the spell checker icon which can be used when writing in a plain text. Disable the checker by selecting the button once more.

The dictionary icon can be used after highlighting a word in the web page and a definition from Wiktionary will appear.

This icon activates the text-to-speech functionality. You need to highlight a portion of text before selecting the Text-to-Speech button to have only that text read out.

This icon is the Readability service that allows the user to read web pages without much of the usual clutter.

This is the word prediction icon which can help with spelling, word finding and may even speed typing.

This icon allows the user to change the look and feel of the toolbar and the web page. The options give to the user include changing the colour of the ATbar toolbar, changing the web page colours (background, text and links).

This icon allows the user to provide a colour tint over the entire web page. You will see a choice of colours – cream, pink, pale blue and pale green.

return Select the return menu if you wish to restore the web page to its original style.

Select close to exit ATbar.