The Readable Toolbar is the visible front of Sensory Readable — a small floating bar of buttons that gives one-click access to all the most-used features. This section explains how the toolbar works and how to position, resize and customise it.

The Readable toolbar in colour mode: a green Play button, amber Speak Selected, orange Voice/microphone, a blue group (font, AV spacing, and the dictionary/Word Check globe), then a grey group (abc, Settings gear, the More menu, and Save to audio). The same Readable toolbar in black-and-white mode, with the same buttons drawn as monochrome outlines.
The Readable toolbar in colour mode (top) and black-and-white mode (bottom). Switch between BW, Blue and Colours styles on the Toolbar tab of Settings.
The Readable toolbar shown in its vertical orientation with each button labelled — Play, Speak Selected, Hover Read, Voice, Settings, Stop, Save MP3, and Quit.
The Readable toolbar in vertical orientation, with each button labelled.

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What the toolbar does

The toolbar is the launching point for almost every Readable action — Play and Stop for speech, Hover Read Modes, Settings, the Word Information popup trigger, the Stop button, and dropdowns for hover, prediction and "more" features. When Microsoft Word is in focus, additional Word-specific buttons appear automatically.

You can place the toolbar anywhere on screen, dock it to the top via Settings, switch between the standard and small toolbar, and choose between BW, Blue or Colours visual styles — see the individual topic pages for details.