Case Study: Los Angeles Pacific University enhances course accessibility with ReadSpeaker

Los Angeles Pacific University improves accessibility for 3,000 students with ReadSpeaker

Los Angeles Pacific University (LAPU), an online institution serving non-traditional adult learners, faced a challenge in ensuring course accessibility to drive student engagement and prevent dropouts, particularly for students with impairments or learning disabilities. To remove these barriers, the university sought a solution and partnered with the vendor ReadSpeaker to implement its text-to-speech (TTS) service.

The solution involved embedding ReadSpeaker’s TTS tools directly into the university's LMS, making lifelike voice capabilities available for all digital course content. This required no extra effort from instructors beyond uploading properly tagged materials. As a result, ReadSpeaker helped LAPU make accessibility a core institutional value, leading to greater student engagement and success. The university now offers fully accessible courses that students can listen to on any device.

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