Thanks to a new initiative between Claro and our friends at Citizens Advice Wigan Borough (CAWB), our Website Reader accessibility tool is now available on their website. Go to cawb.org.uk to try it out! CAWB have important guidance and support on their website, which is crucial in helping their service Read more…
PDF is a powerful document format that is versatile and used everywhere, and you likely use it yourself every day. Many Claro Software products work with PDF files. In our blogs and on our website we often talk about inaccessible and accessible PDF. What do we mean by this? In Read more…
With Dragon for Mac being discontinued, we have been looking into using the built-in Mac dictation feature as an alternative. So what’s the difference? On Apple’s latest operating system, Mojave, there are a few missing features compared to Dragon, such as the ability to correct your dictated text if the Read more…
ClaroRead Cloud gives you access to apps through your web browser. This includes ClaroRead Cloud OCR, ClaroSpeak Web and ClaroIdeas Web. You can also access software downloads, voices and links to unreleased, retired prototype and unfinished programs with Claro Labs. ClaroRead Cloud is a great tool that allows you to access Read more…
Create mind maps, record lectures straight into your handouts and organise your references with ease using ClaroIdeas, ClaroCapture and Claro AudioNote. These study tools help you with research, planning, outlining, studying and presenting. You can use them to capture your ideas, pictures, research notes, web page links and audio or Read more…
Neither Reading Nor Writing We have lots of programs for lots of users with disabilities, though nowadays we concentrate on print impairments like dyslexia with our ClaroRead range and Apps. Below is a run-down of our software for other needs. You can always check out Labs (www.clarosoftware.com/labs) for other software Read more…
All our Claro Software products are packed into exe files using a tool called IExpress. IExpress handles the installation and extraction of the product for us and does so automatically. This ensures that users don’t need to understand or know where the files are temporarily stored during installation or the Read more…
Sometimes a site licencee will need to change the licence key under which ClaroRead is deployed, typically for software audits. Of course, we are happy to work with customers to make this as painless as possible. One thing we’ve been asked is for the ability to change the licence key Read more…
We are excited to announce that as of today, we are now Cyber Essentials certified. Not sure what Cyber Essentials is? Cyber Essentials helps to guard against the most common cyber threats and demonstrates our commitment to cyber security. Our systems and software meet the following requirements under five technical control Read more…
PDF is a surprisingly complicated format: a PDF file can contain almost anything. Some PDFs work well with assistive technology like ClaroRead, some don’t: how can you be sure you have made or been given a PDF that will read properly? (more…)