In 1997, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) with its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and tutorials to help enable people with disabilities to participate equally on the Web. A visually impaired reader will typically need extra information to let them know where they are up to in a document and to make clear what type of text they’ve encountered or are interpreting. While many readers may not be conscious of these visual cues, they do important work. Hundreds of years of book design evolution have led to well-established rules about these visual cues - not only how they work best but also how they can be aesthetically pleasing.
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Stylistic cues such as the size and weight of a font provide additional information about how to read the text.įor example, chapter titles in a novel are often formatted differently from surrounding text - usually in larger font or a different typeface altogether. When an individual reads a book, article, or other document, they derive meaning from more than just the words alone. Over the last couple of years in particular, the publishing industry has recognized a growing need to improve accessibility for all readers, especially as self-publishing continues to gain momentum and increasingly more apps and e-reading platforms proliferate. As the market has grown and diversified, the wide variety of available ebook related technologies means that competing platforms and devices incorporate varying levels of accessibility and different methods of access.
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