Some people with cognitive disabilities may struggle with written text and may prefer to hear the text being read out loud. Some assistive technologies, particularly screen readers, can be used to read out a webpage but it can be helpful to also provide a spoken version of any text content.
Provide a spoken version of any written text. This may be a achieved by recording human speech or by generating synthetic speech (e.g. using text-to-speech software). The spoken version should be provided in a common audio format used on the internet, such as MP3. Provide a clearly labelled link to the audio alternative immediately before or after the video content.
//A link to a spoken version of text is provided immediately before the content.
<p>
<a href="description.mp3" />Spoken version of the text on this webpage (.MP3).</a>
</p>
<p>This is the text on the webpage that is read out in the audio alternative. The text is all about how...</p>