ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the first of three posts about our new version. Spellcheck and word prediction are super techniques for helping you get your writing just right, especially where speech recognition isn’t an option. What’s new? Spellcheck and homophone check People with dyslexia find Read more…
Many people with dyslexia struggle to organise their thoughts, notes and research: ClaroIdeas lets them do all these things visually. ClaroIdeas lets you organise your thoughts, notes, and research visually, which is super-useful if you struggle with big linear bits of text because you are dyslexic. You can stay on Read more…
We now have ClaroRead for the Microsoft Edge web browser! Our ClaroRead Chrome extension is a great hit, with hundreds of thousands of installs. But of course, it only worked in the Google Chrome browser and on Chromebooks. Now Microsoft has changed how their Edge web browser works, so Edge Read more…
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…
The process of taking pictures of absolutely everything has become a very important and popular activity. People are taking pictures to eternalize special moments – and things like last night’s dinner and another picture of their cat – and events they’ve been to. These are then shared on popular social Read more…
Spelling is the art of connecting several letters to form a word. The recognition that letters and sounds are connected is one of the important skills for children to develop in their early school years, and is a skill that we constantly develop as we grow and learn. It is Read more…
We have always tried to make the mainstream, standard applications that everyone uses accessible to our users. Microsoft Word and Adobe Reader, for example, support all our reading and highlighting options. For many years we supported Internet Explorer: you could click in a web page, click Play in ClaroRead, and Read more…
ClaroRead 8 includes a shortcut button to allow you to start and stop dictation using the world-class Dragon speech recognition program so you don’t have to open it separately. Many users have purchased both ClaroRead and Dragon software so this is an easy way to access Dragon form the text-to-speech Read more…
Early readers and writers may struggle with remembering the sounds of each letter. Grade school or primary school children learning their phonics have to understand that each letter has a name (like “em” for M) and a sound (like “mmmmm” for M) that is sometimes different. In Scandinavia ClaroRead has Read more…
Microsoft Word has hundreds of millions of users and is a vital writing tool. If you have ClaroRead for Windows or Mac you can use our powerful features to help you compose essays, documents, and reports in Word for Windows or Mac. But Word is now available through Office 365 Read more…
