Every now and then, like everyone else, I come across websites that do useful stuff. Just last night I found PDFmyURL thanks to cnet.
Simply put, it converts websites into PDFs making it handy for reading offline, putting on an e-book reader or just filing away. Updated versions of Adobe reader have a ‘Read out loud’ function (click on view at top of the PDF, it’s located at the bottom (for my non tech readers)) This means that the blind and visually impaired can listen to websites, blogs etc. being read out without having to install software to do so. I think that’s pretty good.
Best of all PDFmyURL is free and extremely easy to use. So off you go now and convert this blog (not the whole thing, just whatever posts appear on the main page) into a pdf and read at your leisure.
My son, who is legally blind, uses this all of the time. He also uses his IPhone to take a picture of what it so be read and then reads it as a PDF file.
Lindsey Petersen
http://5kidswdisabilities.wordpress.com
Derry, this is brilliant, thanks for that.
Also very good site for converting PDF to Word http://www.pdftoword.com/ and PDF to Excel http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/
Online versions are free
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of those sites.