Accessibility and usability in electronic texts: what does it mean?

Leporini B

Accessibility  E-learning  Blind users  Electronic publishing  Usability  User Interfaces 

Visually impaired people have always experienced difficulties in reading texts, documents and books. However, the ability to obtain information independently is of crucial importance for visually impaired people, since it would give them access to a world which was previously closed to them in terms of access to educational tools, employment resources and information about personal interests and the latest information on a wide range of subjects. Electronic texts (e-texts) are potentially a viable solution. In this work we introduce the subject and describe the aim of the project