Excellent suite of helpful tools to increase productivity and access for all.
Updated May 28, 2025

Excellent suite of helpful tools to increase productivity and access for all.

Janet Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Read&Write

Our district use Read&Write for Google Chrome to support students in reading and writing. We have a district wide license which supports a large variety of purposes including: supporting our students who struggle with reading and writing, our EL students and students who want to use productivity tools to make their reading and writing more expedient and efficient.

Pros

  • Excellent customer support.
  • Works well within the Google Suite.
  • Tools are customizable to meet a wide variety of needs.
  • Quality of voices for TTS.

Cons

  • The only tool that is sometimes difficult is the screenshot reader tool. It freezes at times, but this has been happening less often.
  • When I began this position 11 years ago, we had another product installed on only 5 laptops in the entire school district. Students never wanted to use those 5 laptops (they looked different), and the support tool that was installed had a sharp learning curve that allowed them to understand how to use it. Whereas last week I trained our entire 8th grade on how to use the tools. Students were excited to learn how to use speech-to-text to help with productivity, spelling, and text-to-speech to help with reading when needed. The Read&Write tools are widely used by ALL students including those targeted users: students who have print based disabilities and students for whom english is a second language. We have improved our AT delivery exponentially as a result.
Read and write for Google chrome along with Orbit Note has helped us to be able to provide a comprehensive AT solution for our students. There is a solution available within the suite to assist them in any area that they are working on from inaccessible PDFs to web browsing.
I recently trained an 8th grade transfer student on how to use the text to speech tool and he was so excited to have this ability. As a long time struggling reader he did not know that a support like this was available to him. As a result of this universally available text to speech tool he was able to get the support that he needed immediately to access the curriculum.
They are great. I have made inquiries a few times in the past few years, and the support team has been very helpful.
This is key to the success of our District AT plan. The support tools must be available to all students across all content areas and integrated within our learning management system to be most effective. I no longer have to sit at the copier for hours scanning documents to make student content accessible for our students. We rarely have access problems using the Read&Write tools. Prior to this it was our biggest challenge.
Read&Write is a much more comprehensive tool option. We can offer a wider range of support for all students. Read&Write has had Google Classroom compatibility for a while, which was not the case years ago.

Do you think Read&Write delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Read&Write's feature set?

Yes

Did Read&Write live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Read&Write go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Read&Write again?

Yes

Read&Write works beautifully as a universally designed support tool for all of our students to access the curriculum. It supports student productivity, allowing for them to complete their work quicker and easier (i.e. fewer keystrokes with word prediction, voice typing and ability to listen to text read back). It provides embedded support for students who need some assistance with reading and writing and productivity tools for others.

Read&Write Feature Ratings

Writing and Proofreading
9.9
Spelling and grammar check
10
Machine translation
10
Integrations
10
Browser extension
10
Text-to-Speech
10
Speech-to-Text
9
Screen masking
10
Picture Dictionary
10
Dictionary
10
Highlighters
10
Audio maker
10

Using Read&Write

I am giving this an 9. Not a perfect score because working on PDFs is better but not yet as easy as I need for it to be. Working with many students who have executive function challenges, I need a smooth simplistic access method. We are not quite there yet for writing on PDFs. Overall the toolbar on Read&Write is super easy to access and I love that the suite includes several tools on the toolbar providing a solution to many accessibility challenges.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Text to speech - reading text aloud on the web, in Google suite on PDFs
  • Study tools: highlighting is a favorite amongst our students. Easy, with multiple colors and the ability to sort and capture highlights is a time saver.
  • Word prediction: the new Word Prediction tool is even better now with the ability to highlight words from a specific topic.
  • Access to PDFs continues to be the challenge for the users in my school district. TTS for reading is good. Writing not so much. Many students have executive function challenges and multiple cumbersome steps can be a barrier.
Yes - It works well yet is different to operate. Users will need exposure and practice to understand the difference.

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