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Monday, 7th December 2009

ebrary Launches New Technology for People with Physical Disabilities

From the Announcement:

ebrary today announced that it has shipped new features that significantly increase accessibility for people with physical disabilities. All ebrary products and services are now substantially compliant with the world’s major accessibility standards, including Section 508(C) in the U.S. and the W3C WCAG 2.0 Level AA international standard.

“Improving accessibility continues to be a top priority for ebrary,” said Kevin Sayar, President of ebrary. “We are very pleased that our technology can make it easier for people with physical disabilities to easily find, use, and manage the information they need online.”

Available today, ebrary’s new accessibility features include the following:

+ Simplified interface for Advanced Search
+ Showing the Table of Contents in search results in its own browser window, allowing detection by screen readers
+ Option to display documents in text only in QuickView for visually impaired users with screen readers
+ Ability to change text and background colors as well as fonts for dyslexic users
+ Alternative methods for filing documents and annotations, and re-ordering folders in personal bookshelves
+ Ability to enable accessibility mode at the end-user level

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