As my quest to understand technology continues, I have been wrestling with the text-to-speech capabilities of the internet. Foxvox is an "add-on" for Firefox that can be used to change any text on a website into an orated mp3 document. Well, if you are at all like myself, I will have lost you at the term add-on. Allow me to explain. An add on is a product designed to act as a counterpart to another product. In this case, Voxfox is designed to enhance Mozilla Firefox.
The purpose of the add-on is to read aloud any text found on the internet. In order to use it, you need to download the add-on, which you can do here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9759/. Voxfox is ideal for students with impairments that prohibit reading, text such as loss of eyesight or dyslexia. It allows teachers to continue using online resources while allowing students with reading disabilities access to the same resources. It opens up a world of opportunity for people that would otherwise be left out of the technological, text-heavy world.
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