- From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 21:56:29 +0000
- To: W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAJeQ8SC8PPNpK3cs0GVc92RTgVCZB8fDDpiY2p=RpL1v8SgX6g@mail.gmail.com>
Dear List, Dolphin has an EPUB reader (Easy Reader) that enables a realistic framework for understanding the impact of the WCAG 2.1. For EPUB docs that provide reflow, you can enlarge to 600% with reflow. Note: if you want to see the font-size you will get with with the Reflow Criterion just set your resolution to 1280 width and pick a height that fits your screen. Then 400% will give you the WCAG 2.1 effect from the Reflow Criterion. The app gives you letter and line spacing, but no word or paragraph spacing. You have good control of margins. Beyond WCAG the app has a the ability to choose from 16M colors. For text and background. The app also gives you a choice of font family. You can choose the books font, or one of six other fonts, 3 serif , 3 sans serif. Finally, the app has a read-aloud that will track your place as you read. You are given two color choices: one for sentence highlight, one for word highlight. If you set them to different colors you have sentence and word tracking as you read. If you set them to the same color you just have sentence tracking. If you set sentence tracking to the background color you only have word tracking. If you set background, sentence and word highlights all to the same color you have no tracking. This is not a plug for Easy Reader it is just an observation of a place where you can see the things the LVTF placed in our requirements and most of what was implemented in WCAG 2.1. If you download your free trial you can use the Gutenberg Project for text. EPUB is a download option. If you have low vision, just go to Bookshare they have a better selection of books. The app lets you choose from several public libraries. For those of you with low vision who spend your time fighting horizontal scrolling, this will give you a good idea of what it is like to read print that is big enough with reflow. Best, Wayne
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