Heya Fedi,

I have a question for you all regarding accessibility specifically when talking about E-Books.

Does one here have to use screenreaders or such stuff in order enjoy a book?

How is accessibility with an E-Book?

Are there any challenges disabled persons stumble upon when trying to read an E-Book?

Is there something I would need to look out for that makes an E-Book especially accessible?

I would like to gain some perspective on this in order to do some research on the topic regarding a especially light novel E-Books.

Please share your thoughts and testamonials with me.

Boosts are of course welcomed as well.

@stefan
I'm a bit confused about what exactly you're asking. An ebook is, after all, just a specially formatted text document. It's just a file. Any accessibility features that a disabled person might need comes from the app or device you use to open that file.

The only thing I can think of, is that if the ebook in question also features some images, what would be useful is that the images are accompanied by a description of is in it. This way, if a disabled person relies on text-to-speech (screenreader) to "read" the book, it can also read them the description of the image.

@stefan
Something else that maybe you can account for in an ebook file, is to assume that the reader will use a very large font, to make reading easier, and to try to adjust the way you format the text, to make sure thinks are still legible.

For example, maybe you have a bullet point list, and you need to make sure the reader can still easily understand and follow the list, even with a very big font.