Accessibility – eMonocle™ exceeds all American Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 accessibility guidelines. For low-vision users, eMonocle™ allows a person to increase the font up to 144 points. Unlike other reading interface programs, eMonocles’ allows the user to increase the font size of menu items up to 36 points. Additionally, users can increase the size of graphics within a document, and enlarge online forms to make them legible and usable. For dyslexic and scotopically-sensitive users, eMonocle™ allows a person to change the background color or contrast settings, thus rendering digital content readable.

Features – An Open eBook (OeB) screen reader, eMonocle™ offers a number of special features and benefits, including:

• Scalable font sizing – a patented feature, allowing the user to dynamically 
  adjust the size of textual font on-screen, thus reducing eye fatigue and 
  increasing reading comfort and comprehension.

• Page Turning – Another patented feature that permits the reader to navigate
  a document by turning pages with the simple click of a mouse. This particular feature most closely mimics the traditional book reading experience by eliminating scrolling text.

• Dynamic column resizing – eMonocle™ creates columns of text, similar to a newspaper. After the user selects a font size, the columns dynamically adjust to maximize the reading space available on the viewer’s display device.

• Printing at Various Font Sizes – as another example of excellence in usability, eMonocle™ allows the user to customize the font size of their printed content. If the publisher allows printing, users can select a single or multi-column printing and the font size from 4 pt. To 144 points. Excellence in usability statement: If people need text at 40 points to see it on the screen, they will also need large font printing on paper. ION is all about being able to use information.

URM – Pioneer and leading provider of Usability Relationship Management (URM) technologies, ION developed eMonocle™ attentive to the needs of all users: sighted, low-vision, dyslexic and blind. It is the usability of the content and the efficiency of consuming information at various font sizes and vision needs that is core to the eMonocle™ design. Creating accessibility is only half of the task. The usability must allow a person with 20/200 corrected vision (who only begins seeing menu items at 36 point) to read just as fast and comprehend as well as a 20/20 sighted person. Accessibility is the Law, Usability is empowering.

Requirements – 

Requirements differ according to the user’s operating system. Following is a chart listing the requirements.

Related Technology – Most other reader interface technologies do not allow a person to dynamically adjust the font size on-screen for a more reader-friendly experience, nor do competing systems offer the publisher a high level of document/content security. ION’s eMonocle™ most closely simulates an actual book reading experience, with patented font resizing, page turning (no more tedious scrolling), and dynamic column resizing. Moreover, no other competing software allows an individual to view the contents of a book before purchasing. Just as you would leaf through a book from cover-to-cover in a bookstore, eMonocle™ brings you the capability of looking inside the entire book.