Web interface of Hungarian Electronic Library for users with visual disability

Tapolcai Ágnes

National Széchényi Library

Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK) Web service started nine years ago, and has been heavily used by visually disabled people. The original system became to be out of date by nowadays, so we developed a new home page with new storing, searching and other services. The new services cannot be used easily by screen reader softwares because of the more complex funcionality.

This is why we have been developing separate home page for users with visual disability based on W3C Web Access Initiative. The main points are the following:

Home page and searching abilities designed for screen reader softwares and suitable for visually partially disabled as well.

List for downloading (topics, novelties).

Downloading suitable formats for text to speech softwares.

Plans for online text to speech conversion.