Prior to the release of the IDEAL Web Reader, Android owners who were blind or vision impaired weren’t able to browse the web on their Android device because the standard web browser was inaccessible.
Features of the IDEAL Web Reader include:
- Highlight the text that is being read on a web page
- Change the font and background colour for text content (17 colour options)
- Adjust the text size, letter spacing and line spacing
- Ignore ALT text for images that are not being used as links
- Turn off image loading to reduce the amount of time it takes for a page to load or reduce the amount of data that you use when downloading a webpage
- Keep the screen on when the IDEAL Web Reader is running
- Use the browser’s original set of gestures, or redefine gestures for all actions
- Access Android’s global Text-To-Speech settings via a shortcut in the IDEAL Web Reader
A tutorial for the IDEAL Web Reader provides a complete list of basic controls, gestures and settings.
The IDEAL Web Reader is not only accessible, but also allows the normal way in which it acts for a webpage with a standard structure to be modified.
Steve Jacobs, President of IDEAL Group, explains, "The majority of the logic behind IDEAL Web Reader resides in easily modifiable JavaScript files on the user's SD card. This makes it very simple for the user to enhance the default behaviour of IDEAL Web Reader on pages where the structure of the web page is well known and understood.”
He goes on to use Google search results as an example. Instead of a user having to navigate through Google search results line by line, a custom-built component could specify that the heading and description for a search result are read all at the same time.
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