Assistive Technology: Digital reading

Do you find reading text in e-books and online journals challenging or uncomfortable? This guide will introduce you to built-in within e-book and online journal platforms, as well as assistive applications, to enhance your screen reading experience.

Text-to-speech

Listening back to text can help some readers with:

• improving comprehension
• reading fluency and speed
• focus
• avoiding misreading of words.

Visual display and layout

Some platforms let you adjust text display settings, such as:

• text size
• font
• background colour
• line spacing.

Academic reading is different to reading for pleasure. Tools in many of our e-book platforms enable bookmarking, highlighting and annotation to help you record key ideas, review, and make sense of what you are reading.