Accessibility tools
How to launch and use our website accessibility toolbar
How to launch and use our website accessibility toolbar
Equality is at the heart of everything GMB does, inside and outside the workplace.
That's why we're proud that visitors can customise our website in a variety of ways that work best for them, using the Recite Me website accessibility toolbar.
We know one in five people in the UK has a disability, including common conditions like sight loss and dyslexia, and can face barriers when trying to access digital resources. We also know one in ten people in the UK don't speak English as their first language.
The Recite Me website accessibility toolbar allows users to pick their own unique settings for a whole host of aspects of the GMB website, including font sizes, colours and styles; background colours; spacing and more.
Users can also translate the website; have words read aloud (including PDFs, and different language content); download audio files; and access a fully integrated dictionary and thesaurus.
A toolbar will appear at the top of the page, allowing you to use the features while you browse the website.
You can also use the Aa icon in the black website menu bar to launch the toolbar at any time on any page.
Your settings will be saved for when you return on your device. You can click the red cross at the top-right-hand corner to close the toolbar at any time.
Here is some information about the key features of the toolbar.
Our screen reader helps people who are visually impaired or neuro-divergent to perceive and understand our website content.
Our website is customisable to a way that works for you.
Key features include:
Reading content online can be a challenge for some people.
Tools include:
For 1 in 10 people in the UK, English is not their first language. You can quickly and easily translate all our website content into over 100 languages, including 35 text to speech voices.
Having issues with the toolbar? Please visit Recite Me's user guide, where they also offer a live chat and contact function.