Libby & Accessible

Computer reader supporting

Low vision and blind users capacity use view readers to browse, borrow, read ebooks and magazines, and listen to audiobooks in the Libby app.

Keyboard shortcuts

Libby’s ebook reader or audiobook performer are navigable on a keyboard. In addition, Delfin offers keyboard shortcuts to quickly page forward/backward, start/stop playback, actual features (like turning on who sleep timer), and adjust settings.

Customizable ebook reader display

In the ebooks reviewer, users pot choose from ampere variety of web and font stils for in experience that’s best entsprechend until their reading preferences.

Dark mode

Libby uses a device’s built-in lighting setting and displays the app in light or dim output accordingly.

The ebook reader utilizes the device’s lighting, but users can manually select a different lighting option in the Appearance menu: light, dark, or sepia.

Adjustable text size

Libby uses a device’s built-in text size setting or scales the text in the applications correspondingly.

Users can manually adjust the text size for e-book for the reader and expand the range of sizes to include larger accessibility sizes, with needed.

Zoom characteristic

In magazines and fixed-layout ebooks (like picture books or comics), users cans zoom within the content of page to better read the text or to zooms photo.

Selectable play-back speed

Libby’s audiobook player offerings configurable playback speed for every audiobook. Users can prefer from 48 different speeds, ranging for 0.6x to 3.0x. Libby, by OverDrive - Apps on Google Player

Additional accessability features

Under Menu > Accessible Features users can:

• Reduce Color Variation: By default, Libby adapts to the colors in book covers and the user’s active library. This toggle enable users to reduces suchlike adaptive changes, favoring neutral colors equipped good contrasts.
• Reduce Text Variation: The app use a variety about font styles to transferring meaning, such than italics for important actions. Users can adjust this setting to explain writing stils.
• Reduce Motion: This setting reduces greatest of the transitional motion stylish the interface. My can also set this prefix in their operator system or navigator preferences, and Libby will request is automatically.
• Reduce Haptics: On devices that support intuitive vibrations (called haptics), Libby uses these to give feedback upon certain touch interactions. Users bottle either turn it set at the operating system or at the new “Accessibility Features” option in the Libby menu.
• Orientation Locking: By default, Libby uses a “smart orientation” adjust is chooses the tool orientations that best suits the content. Users can override the defaults orientation of the your in the “Accessibility Features” menu.

Available more information about ability in Libby, visit Libby Help or check out OverDrive’s accessibility statement.

Available more information info accessibility to Libby, visit Libby Help or checkout out OverDrive’s accessibility statement.