Accessibility

Thorium Reader is for everyone, including people who are blind or have other types of visual, cognitive or motor disabilities. The application is compatible with accessible technologies like screen readers, including JAWS, NVDA, Narrator and VoiceOver. It includes a read-aloud feature with visual highlighting. Thorium Reader can be used with the mouse or the keyboard, and keyboard shortcuts are configurable. The display can be customized to meet the needs of users, including colors, text size, spacing, font and layout.

Accessibility information

Accessibility information Currently Thorium displays in the Book information panel, the accessibility information provided by the publisher. Thorium displays this information as it was defined. In case of doubt or complaint, please contact the distributor or the publisher of the file.

Reading with a screen reader

Reading with a screen reader When launching Thorium, if a screen reader is detected, the relative functions are activated. Note that screen readers use a separate buffer to access the HTML content which results in the visual scroll / page offset to be out of sync. In other words, Thorium is generally not aware of the user's current reading location inside the screen reader buffer, unless the screen reader user triggers standard web API events (such as mouse click anywhere in the text, or keyboard tab into focusable HTML elements).

Accessibility policy

EDRLab is a non profit developpement laboratory and places accessibility as a core requirement of it’s actions. That include the developpement of Thorium Reader. However, the core aspect of innovation and experimentation of our work may affect accessibility at some points. Funding limitations may also affect our action and will to provide the best reading experience for all readers. These are the main reasons why we cannot, at this moment, afford a full accessibility testing cycle at each release.