Reading and accessibility settings

Not everyone reads the same way. Zunderwork lets you change how lesson content looks and behaves, and the changes are yours alone: nobody else sees them, and the course itself is not altered for anyone.

#Two places to change them

While you are in a lesson, open the accessibility panel from the course sidebar. It is organised into four tabs, Reading, Vision, Tools and Motion, and every change takes effect straight away on the text in front of you. This is the quickest way to try something out.

In your settings, under Lesson accessibility, you will find the same options with a preview box, so you can set things up calmly before you start a course.

#Making text easier to read

• Font size: small, default, large, or extra large.
• Font: the default, a serif font, or a dyslexia-friendly font that many people find easier to read.
• Line spacing, letter spacing and word spacing: more air between lines, letters or words often does more for readability than a bigger font does.
• Always left-align text: turns off centred and justified text, which can be hard to track.
• Highlight headings: gives every heading a subtle background so the structure of a lesson is easy to scan.
• Underline links and highlight links: make links stand out without relying on colour alone.

#Adjusting what you see

• Zoom enlarges the lesson content, which also helps when you are showing a course on a projector.
• Brightness and saturation let you tone the page down in a dark room, or take the colour out of it entirely.
• High contrast strengthens the difference between text and background.
• Colors lets you set your own background and text colour. A readability meter tells you whether the pair you picked is Good, Fair or Poor, and warns you when a combination would be unreadable for some people.
• Color filter simulates protanopia, deuteranopia or tritanopia. It is there to check whether a lesson relies on colour to make its point.

#Tools while you read

• Reading guide: a horizontal line that follows your cursor so you do not lose your place.
• Reading mask: dims everything except a band of text around your cursor.
• Magnifying glass: a lens that follows your cursor and enlarges what is underneath.
• Big cursor: a larger pointer that is easier to follow.
• Larger buttons: makes buttons and clickable things at least 48 by 48 pixels, which helps if precise clicking is difficult.
• Keyboard navigation hints: stronger focus outlines, so you can always see where you are when moving through a page with the Tab key.
• Hide images: hides images and video, useful on a slow connection or when they distract you.

#Movement and sound

• Reduced motion limits animations and transitions.
• Pause all animations goes further and stops them everywhere in the lesson.
• Stop sounds mutes audio and video automatically.

#Quick presets

At the bottom you will find Quick presets. Apply dyslexia-friendly preset sets a combination in one click: the dyslexia-friendly font, wider spacing, left-aligned text. It is a good starting point that you can then fine-tune.

Reset to defaults puts everything back the way it was, which is worth remembering if you have experimented your way into something unreadable.

#Using Zunderwork with a keyboard

The whole platform can be operated without a mouse. Tab moves you forward through links, buttons and form fields, Shift and Tab move back, Enter or Space activates whatever you have landed on. Turn on Keyboard navigation hints to make the current position clearly visible while you do it.