New OVF functionality - speech and font resizer

[robf]

Hi,

I'm trying to make OVF more accessible as I understand some users may need a clearer layout to be able to read content on the site.

As you may know, OVF is divided into the blog and the forum and these changes are being made on the blog first of all with a view to adding something similar on the forum too.

Text to speech

As a test, I have used a free tool to convert an article so you can hear the content as well as read it. I'd welcome your thoughts on whether this is a useful addition and will be used. You can read/listen to the test article here - 

https://www.onevalefan.co.uk/2021/03/four-thoughts-after-port-vales-goalless-draw-with-oldham/

You'll see a grey box at the bottom (see screengrab below) where you can play the audio of the feature (no, it's not me reading it 😉😞

Articles are not automatically converted to audio but if users like it I will certainly look at making certain features audio as well.

Text Resizer

I've also added a text resizer to the blog pages. This may be handy if you struggle to read the text or need it larger. It is on the top RH side (see screengrab):

Again, I welcome any comments about whether it's useful and I'm happy to change the font sizes available if anyone wants different sizes. 

I am committed to make OVF as accessible as possible so do let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. If these work on the blog then I intend to do something similar on the forum. However, there are far fewer addons for the forum so it's a longer and more complex job, hence why I've done the blog first. 

Thanks,

Rob

[Aussie Rules]

Rob,

Re. 'read/listen'...one word, three syllables - Brilliant 🙂 

[robf]

On 14/03/2021 at 15:57, Aussie Rules said:

Rob,

Re. 'read/listen'...one word, three syllables - Brilliant 🙂 

@Aussie Rules thanks, it's only on selected articles at the moment. That's because it only works on text articles, not ones with lots of images etc. 

I'm looking at a way of making it clear which articles have a listen option as well...