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Hi Wink,</div>
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We have Beeline Reader as a part of the A11y for Brightspace tool for alternate formats. It offers different screen displays with different color options for reading text on the screen. It offers the user a different visual display but does not have text
to speech. There also is a <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en" title="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en">
Chrome extension</a> that may give at least a partial experience. The <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en" title="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifjafammaookpiajfbedmacfldaiamgg?hl=en">
website </a>will also give some additional information. </div>
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Hope this helps!</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What can you all tell me about Beeline Reader? Who is the target consumer? Advantages? Drawbacks? Purpose? A legit text-to-speech reader? All the info that I could find online says it offers a color gradient
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I am responding to someone who contacted me off list about how to solve a different accessibility matter and they indicated that they were using Beeline Reader.<br>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Any information – good, bad, indifferent, scathing – is welcome.<br>
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Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production<br>
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The Foreign Type<br>
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