Chatham County is committed to ensuring that all residents have equal and inclusive access to online resources as part of the Digital Language Accessibility Plan. To support this initiative, the county has integrated Recite Me assistive technology into its website, empowering individuals to personalize their browsing experience.

Residents can benefit from the following features:

Individuals with limited English proficiency

Dictionary & Translation

• Dictionary: Highlight and click on this to view the definition of the word
• Translation: Translate text into more than 100 different languages

Individuals with vision impairments:

Play Audio

• Back: Rewind to the previous paragraph of text.
• Play: Click the Play button to read the text aloud.
• Forward: Skip forward to the next paragraph of text.

Color, Ruler, Mask, Magnifier and Download Audio

• Color: Change the background, text, and link colors
• Ruler: Click to enable the reading ruler
• Screen Mask: Will create a letterbox for focused viewing of a section of the page
• Magnifier: Click and drag the magnifying glass to magnify text on the screen.
• Download Audio: Highlight the text then click the button to download the text as an MP3 audio file for convenient playback.

Individuals with hearing impairments:

Text Options

• Decrease: This will decrease the text size.
• Font: You can change the font that displays on the page
• Increase: This will increase the text size

 Margins, Plain Text Mode, and Download Audio

• Text Mode: Remove images to view content in plain text mode
• Margins: Change the text dimensions by narrowing the width of the text column