Mac Software
ClaroRead Mac 8 Release
Written by Michelle McArdle, developer of ClaroRead Mac.
ClaroRead Mac 8 is out now! If you’re thinking of upgrading to macOS 11 Big Sur, then you will need to update ClaroRead Mac too!
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ClaroRead 9: IT Admins and non-English users
ClaroRead 9 is now out! This is the last of our blog posts on new features and changes. We’ve made some tweaks to how ClaroRead 9 works to make it easier for hard-working admins to deploy and use. If you are using multiple languages in ClaroRead you had to use Read more…
Windows Software
ClaroRead 9: Support for Microsoft Outlook
ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the second of three posts about our new version. Most of our users are in education, but we have many in the workplace, and it’s hard to get away from Microsoft Outlook for your email. In ClaroRead 9 you can now read Read more…
Windows Software
ClaroRead 9: Spellcheck and Prediction
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…
Mac Software
ClaroRead Mac 7.2 Release
Written by Michelle McArdle, developer of ClaroRead Mac.
ClaroRead Mac 7.2 is out now! If you’re thinking of upgrading to macOS 10.15 Catalina, then you will need to update ClaroRead Mac too!
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Windows Software
Create Accessible Files with Auto Converter
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…
Windows Software
Reading Web Pages with ClaroRead 8
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…
Windows Software
ClaroRead 8: Dragon Speech Recognition
ClaroRead 8 lets you start and stop dictation using the world-class Dragon speech recognition program, all from the ClaroRead toolbar. The software is often supplied with Dragon from Nuance, but running two toolbars at once can be too complicated. Dragon is also a complex program because it is so very Read more…
Windows Software
ClaroRead 8 – Echo Letter Sounds
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…
Chromebook Apps
ClaroRead Chrome Update
Chromebooks are getting more and more popular, especially among the students around the world. The reasons why people are becoming users of this technology are simple: Chromebooks are cheaper, easier to use, long battery life and most important access to Google Apps for Education. It provides students with free cloud-based Read more…