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Figure 5.1:
Screenshots of ENA web site and photo of the multi-touch.
Option to resize documents whilst retaining optimal display quality;
Option to zoom in on any element displayed in ENA on the fly (this feature may be activated
by selecting a menu option or by turning the scroll wheel whilst holding down the Ctrl key);
Option to change the interface color scheme to one designed for color-blind users;
Option to navigate the interface without a pointing device (using the keyboard only).
Figure 5.2:
Full screen video with subtitles, Zoom capabilities for the whole interface, Skinable interface.
The adaptation of such a digital library for consultation by blind users required more chal-
lenging, and sometimes empirical solutions, able to make a screenreader as user-friendly as possible.
Unlike traditional web sites, the common element of publication in ENA is not a web page, but
a document (text, photo, video, facsimile, map, diagram, etc.) accompanied by structured metadata
displayed in a separate window. The prototype is thus based on the same data as the visual version of
ENA, but substitutes the point-and-click mode of interaction with listen-and-select. So it is entirely
