Barrier-free surfing
Webformator...
is an auxiliary program for Microsoft Internet
Explorer. It displays the content of a website, in a way suitable for the
visually challenged, in a text field in which you can move the
cursor.
Webformator is automatically started with Internet Explorer. You
can toggle between the view in Internet Explorer and in Webformator with F12.
Various elements of a website are displayed via texts or symbols and
graphics are indicated with alternative text. Frames are displayed one below
the other and are individually selectable. Multiple-column text is displayed
one below the other column by column.
Tables may be clearly edited and
even PDF documents or pages created with Macromedia Flash are legible, provided
that the full version of Acrobat Reader 6 or 7 and the Flash 6 plug-in by
Macromedia were installed respectively.
You may download Webformator
here for free: http://www.webformator.de
The ZOOM function...
A big problem for the designing of a homepage is the
optional enlargement of text! In Internet Explorer, you may change the font in
5 increments below "view." However, the text wrapping is absolutely changed as
a result of this.
We use the setting in pixels for fonts, whereby the
layout always remains unchanged, regardless of which setting the user has.
There is an option here for visually impaired people to zoom in on the home
page.
Starting with Internet Explorer 7 there will be a ZOOM function
which may be found on the bottom right. In contrast for the altering of the
text size, all elements of the page are enlarged or reduced with this function,
thus text and images. This is applicable for the range 10% to 1,000%.
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