Assistive Technology

Software Licence: ClaroRead Cloud

Dyslexia support cloud service which provides reading tools over a web browser.

• Type of Licence: University Site Licence

University Owned Machines

This software service is centrally funded. There will be no recharge to Schools for use. 

The service is accessed via an internet browser from https://teaching.ncl.ac.uk/claro and does not require any installation. 

• Please complete the application form.

Staff and Students' Personal Machines

The service is available for use from any PC, laptop, or mobile device.  If you are off campus you will be asked to provide your username and password via the university's standard logon gateway.

• Please complete the application form.

Important Information

ClaroRead Cloud provides a number of web apps:

• ClaroRead Cloud OCR:  conversion of documents (including photographs) to create plain text, accessible PDFs or Word format
• ClaroSpeak Web: reads text, and also offers dictation
• ClaroIdeas Web: mind mapping tool
• ClaroPDF Web: Reads accessible PDF files
• Speaking Calculator Web