Sora & Accessibility

Read to Me is a Sora feature that provides text-to-speech support. Students can select a word, phrase, sentence, or paragraph in an ebook and then choose Read to Me to hear the selected text read aloud. They can also customize Read to Me’s speed and volume settings.

Students can hear pronunciations of the words they define while reading ebooks and anywhere else they see defined words in Sora.

Students can use their keyboard’s Tab and Enter keys and spacebar to navigate the entirety of the app. Sora also supports keyboard shortcuts for easy ebook navigation and quick access to frequently used features. With these shortcuts, students can page forward and backward in books, search a book’s content, start and stop audiobooks, add bookmarks, and more.

Sora’s design helps screen reader users understand its structure so they can navigate it quickly. Sora properly identifies important images with alt text and tells screen readers to ignore decorative images. Headers and landmarks identify standard regions of the site, and skip links let students skip recurring sections to easily access what they need. Sora also labels specific components, so students know when they’re engaging with text fields, checkboxes, drop-down menus, and more.