What are the Accessibility Features Available in Roku Device?

Roku, one among the best streaming service is now available to stream your favorite videos and movies online. Customer satisfaction becomes the major objective and the Roku devices have its best features to help people with visual and hearing impairments.

Here are some of the accessibility features you can find for your Roku devices.

Voice search:

Voice search, the best and amazing feature is available on your Roku devices. You can speak the name of the movie; actor, the director you are looking for and the device will start the search by 

• If you are using an ios or android smart phone, install a Roku mobile app to use this feature.
• Roku Ultra, Roku 3 and Roku 4 devices have the voice search option available on their remote controls.
• The feature is also available on the remotes of Roku devices like Roku Ultra, Roku 3 and Roku 4.

Closed captioning:

The option displays dialogue, back ground noises and sound effects of a TV show or movie as text on your TV screen. If the dialogues are difficult to understand or if the volume cannot be turned up too loud, then the closed captioning option becomes more useful.

• The option helps people with hearing impairment to a greater extent.
• You can go to the Accessibility settings to turn on the closed caption feature.
• If you find this option useful, you can go for the popular streaming channels like Netflix or Hulu that supports closed captioning

Activating your Roku device

• To use the accessibility features, the first step is to activate your Roku device by creating a Roku account.
• Go to the website roku com link to enter the respective Roku activation code and your account will be automatically activated. Once you click on the roku com link, a page will be displayed on which you can enter the respective activation code.

Audio guide

• The audio guide is a text to speech screen reader which will read out texts and onscreen menus. The feature is developed exclusively for the visually impaired people.
• Press the * button which is located just below the directional pad at the right-hand side of the Roku remote to turn on/off the Audio guide.
• Accessibility settings are also available using which you can adjust the speech rate, text to speech volume or to disable the Audio guide option.
• Power on the audio guide button now to automatically start reading the texts, menus and other onscreen items.

Roku devices that support Audio guide feature

Roku ultra 4640x, Roku premiere +  4630X, Roku premiere  4620X, Roku express +3710X, Roku express 3700X, Roku streaming stick 3600 X and Roku TV are the models that support the Audio guide feature.

Roku devices provide these features with better stability and quality when compared to other streaming services.

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