← Blog · 15 July 2026

A news site is for everyone — including people who can't, or can only with difficulty, read a screen. Low vision, dyslexia, eye strain, or simply busy hands: in all these cases, an audio version isn't a comfort, it's a way in. And accessibility is no longer just good intentions: France's RGAA, and the European Accessibility Act at the EU level, make it an increasingly binding direction for publishers.

What audio changes for your readers

A visually impaired person uses a screen reader, but it reads the interface monotonously, without the prosody of real reading. A quality voice reading the article, with its breaths and intonation, offers comfortable listening — not a fallback. For a dyslexic person, hearing the text while seeing it removes much of the decoding effort.

Synced text: read and listen at once

The real accessibility lever isn't just sound: it's sound aligned with the text. With synced text, each word lights up the instant it's spoken, and clicking a word places the audio there. Guided reading — seeing and hearing at the same time — is a recognised aid for dyslexia, and a comfort for everyone in noisy or silent settings.

Subtitles, no studio

The same word-level timing produces SRT or VTT subtitle files, at no extra cost and with no new generation. Useful for your videos, they also serve accessibility: audio content paired with readable text reaches deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

Accessibility shouldn't be a project

The classic trap is treating accessibility as a separate module, bolted on afterwards and quickly forgotten. The value of audio generated on publish is that it applies to every article, automatically — not just the ones someone remembered to voice. Inclusivity becomes a property of the template, not a box to tick article by article.

None of this replaces a full accessibility audit of your site — contrast, keyboard navigation, page structure. But giving your articles a voice, with synced text and subtitles, is one of the most useful moves, and among the simplest to put in place. See how on the pricing page, or test it right away on the free trial page.