Before
“link · link · link · button · graphic · graphic · edit text · button · clickable · clickable”
Your screen reader is fine. The sites are broken.
You install it, you open any site, and the page reaches your screen reader repaired — labelled buttons, real headings, a focus order that makes sense. You configure nothing.
I am paying for someone else · Or just keep going — both parts are below, in full.
Thirty seconds: the same page, before and after
This is a recording of a real site, read aloud by a real screen reader. Nothing is staged and nothing is sped up.
After
“Pay for your order, button · Amount due, 480 · Card number, edit text · Help with this payment, link”
The recording is being prepared. The transcript below is exact.
Hear it in forty seconds
What the browser does, what it never does, and what happens after you install it. Nothing plays on its own — this page will not talk over your screen reader.
Read it instead
This is Legato — a browser that repairs sites for your screen reader. Inside it is an artificial intelligence of our own, trained on thousands of live pages: it names buttons and images that have no name, adds headings where the developer never made any, and clears windows that steal your focus. It runs on your computer — your pages go nowhere. It does not read aloud itself: your VoiceOver, NVDA or JAWS does. Ask it what is on this page, what this form wants, read this table. Install it — bookmarks, history and open tabs move over from Chrome with one button.
What changes on the sites you visit
Legato repairs the page on your own computer, before it reaches your reader. Buttons get names, headings appear, focus goes where it should. Free, no account — and your bookmarks come with you.
Your screen reader gets a page it can read
Buttons get names, headings become headings, the focus order follows the page instead of the source code. The repair happens before the page reaches your reader.
You find out what is in a picture
An image with no description gets one, out loud, on request — including the ones that carry the actual information, like a scanned letter or a price table.
Zoom that does not break the page
Text gets larger and the page reflows to fit — no horizontal scrolling, no overlapping columns, no menu that swallows half the screen.
A calm version of a noisy page
Animation stops, banners fold away, line length and spacing settle down. What is left is the text you came for.
Everything reachable from the keyboard
Targets get bigger, custom controls answer to the keyboard, and a stray click is easier to undo than to make.
No more being trapped in a dialog
Pop-ups announce themselves, Escape closes them, and the focus comes back where it was instead of the top of the document.
Sound you can see
Captions where a site has them, visible signals where the site only beeps, and the browser’s own motifs mirrored on screen.
Twelve motifs instead of long sentences
The browser tells you what happened with a short sound on top of the speech, so your reader is not interrupted. Turn them off in one switch.
The second visit is instant and free
A repaired page is remembered. Coming back — or someone else coming after you — costs nothing and happens immediately.
Ask the page a question
- What is on this page?
- What does this form want from me?
- Read me this table.
- Say that in plain words.
- Describe this picture.
The answer comes in your reader’s voice. It never agrees to anything for you — it closes a cookie banner, it does not accept it.
Everything you already have moves over
Changing browsers is expensive when you listen to the web: the geography of every page has to be learned again. So the move takes one button, on first launch.
- Bookmarks, history and the tabs you have open right now come across from Chrome.
- Nothing is retyped and nothing is lost.
- The settings you tuned travel with you to another computer.
The browser speaks in more than words
“Page updated, twelve fixes applied” takes your screen reader three seconds and interrupts whatever you were listening to. The same meaning as a short motif takes 180 milliseconds and interrupts nothing. Legato is a musical term; these are the browser’s twelve motifs. Press a row to hear it, or use the number keys.
When you hear it: a site has just been fixed
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Page repaired, 12 fixes”
When you hear it: you have been here before — fixed instantly, free
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Familiar page, repaired”
When you hear it: a long job has started — the browser heard you
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Repair in progress”
When you hear it: the AI repair is done
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Done, page repaired”
When you hear it: the page was already fine
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “This page is already fine”
When you hear it: a search or an element found nothing
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Not found”
When you hear it: something failed
What the screen reader says at the same moment: the error itself
When you hear it: the browser needs a decision from you
What the screen reader says at the same moment: the question itself
When you hear it: a form went through
What the screen reader says at the same moment: the site’s own answer
When you hear it: a window took the focus
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Dialog, focus inside”
When you hear it: the focus came back to the page
What the screen reader says at the same moment: “Dialog closed”
When you hear it: the daily AI repairs are used up, or there is no network
What the screen reader says at the same moment: what is unavailable, and until when
180 ms of sound instead of 3 seconds of speech — on top of the speech, not instead of it.
It works with your screen reader, not instead of it
Legato does not read pages to you and does not replace anything you already use. It repairs the page so that the reader you already know — with your voice, your speed, your shortcuts — can do its job.
- NVDA and JAWS on Windows
- VoiceOver on macOS
- Orca on Linux
- A braille display, through your reader
This is not an overlay widget
Overlays sit on a website and promise the site owner that accessibility is handled. They are not on your side, they cannot be turned off by you, and they often make things worse. Legato is the opposite: it runs on your computer, it answers to you, and the site never knows it exists.
Installing it
- Download Legato for your computer — macOS, Windows or Linux.
- Open it. Your screen reader picks it up like any other window; there is nothing to switch on.
- The language follows your system, because the voice does too.
- That is it. The free repairs work immediately, with no account and no key.
A two-minute walkthrough opens on first launch. It is a suggestion, not a wall — Escape leaves it, and it can be replayed any time.
Everything happens on your computer
Pages are repaired locally. We do not collect your browsing, we do not keep a history, and the sites you visit are not sent anywhere. AI repair, when you ask for it, sends the structure of that one page and nothing else.
Paying for someone else
A parent, a veterans’ association, a rehabilitation centre, a library, an employer. You are not buying a browser; you are buying what the person can do afterwards.
What actually changes for them
They can pay a bill, book an appointment and read their own mail without asking anyone for help. Play the recording above — it is the clearest thirty seconds on this page.
You pay, they use it
The key goes to the person, not to you. Nothing is tied to your card, and nothing renews by itself.
Seats, not computers
One seat is one person and up to two of their devices. Grants count people; a reinstalled computer should never cost someone their access.
Paperwork that a fund accepts
An invoice and a receipt from our own checkout, plus a simple report of how many seats are actually in use — the line a grant report needs.
Handing it over
A short printable page: how to install, how to activate with a key that can be dictated over the phone, and what the person will hear the first time.
Their privacy stays theirs
Pages are repaired on their computer. Their browsing does not come to us, and it does not come to you either.
Prices
The accessibility repairs are free and stay free — they run on the person’s own computer and cost us nothing. Only the AI repair is paid, because that one genuinely costs money.
Legato
Free forever
The whole browser, the rule-based repairs, the sound map, the walkthrough, ten languages. No account, no key, no expiry.
Care
$49 per year
or $6 per month
AI repair on demand for the pages rules cannot fix, spoken image descriptions, shared recipes, support.
Care for someone else
$49 per year
The same thing, paid by you, used by them. Sets of 3, 5 or 10 seats. One payment; nothing renews on its own.
Organisation
from $22 per seat / year
Seats plus a place to hand them out, take them back, and see how many are in use. From 10 seats.
- 10–24 seats — $39
- 25–99 — $29
- 100–499 — $22
- 500+ — let’s talk
Pay for a stranger
$49
One year for one person from the waiting list. We publish how many seats are paid for and how many people are still waiting.
If you cannot pay, write to us
You will get a seat from the shared pool. One line is enough — we will not ask you to prove that you are poor.
Prices are in US dollars, one payment per term. Nothing renews automatically and no card is stored. When a term ends the browser does not lock — it goes back to the free repairs, which never expire.
Two people, one page
The hardest part of this is usually the conversation. Both sides of it are written for you here.
Send this to someone who could pay
A short message that explains what Legato is, what it changes and what it costs, with a link straight to this page.
Send the instructions to the person who will use it
The same in reverse: what to download, how to start it and what happens the first time.
Questions
Do I have to stop using my screen reader?
No — the opposite. Legato exists so the reader you already use can do its job. Your voice, your speed, your shortcuts.
What happens when I stop paying?
The browser goes back to the free repairs and keeps working. We will never lock a browser: for many people it is the only door to the internet.
Is it another accessibility overlay?
No. Overlays are installed by website owners and work for them. Legato is installed by you and works for you; websites cannot see it or switch it off.
What if I have no internet for a while?
The rule-based repairs are local and work offline. A paid licence keeps working for 30 days without a connection, and then falls back to free rather than stopping.
Can I install it for someone else?
Yes, and there is a printable page for exactly that — including a key short enough to read out over the phone.
Which languages does it speak?
Twelve. The interface follows your system language, because your screen reader chooses its voice the same way.