What reading tools can I use with a switch?
Many of our reading tools are switch-compatible, including Bookshare Reader for Web. It has keyboard shortcuts to start and stop the Text to Speech and navigate through the book:
- Open Table of Contents (Alt + C / Control + Option + C)
- Open List of Bookmarks (Alt + Shift + B / Control + Option + Shift + B)
- Bookmark (Alt + B / Control + Option + B )
- Back to My Bookshare page (Alt + Back arrow / Control + Option + Back arrow)
- Where am I. (Alt + W / Control + Option + W)
- Go to page (Alt + P / Control + Option +P)
- Open Settings panel ( Alt + T / Control + Option + T)
- Play TTS (Alt + R / Control + Option + R)
- Stop TTS (Alt + Shift + R / Control + Option + Shift + R)
- TTS Skip forward (Alt + R + Right arrow / Control + Option + R + Right arrow)
- TTS Go back (Alt + R + Left arrow / Control + Option + R + Left arrow)
- Section/Page forward - Right arrow (It will be page in paginated mode and section in Scrolling mode)
- Section/Page back - Left arrow
Switch users can also read Bookshare books with Voice Dream Reader on compatible mobile devices.