Appearance, motion, and accessibility in Novus Learn

The theme, motion, and accessibility controls live together in Novus Learn's Appearance settings, so tuning the reading experience is one place, not a scavenger hunt. It is worth setting these before a long reading session rather than fighting the defaults halfway through a dense topic — a minute up front pays for itself across every page you open afterward.

Like the local library, your choices here are remembered in your browser on your device, not tied to an account. That means the app opens the way you left it next time, and it also means the settings are yours and private — no profile, no sync, just the reading environment you prefer, kept locally.

The theme toggle switches Novus Learn between a light and a dark presentation of the same source-grounded content. Neither changes a word of the article or its citations — theme is purely about how the page meets your eyes. Light suits bright rooms and readers who find dark text on white easiest to scan; dark suits low-light spaces, glare-sensitive eyes, and long night-time sessions where a bright page is tiring.

Who is it for? Nearly everyone, in different conditions. A reader in a sunlit room and the same reader at 11pm want opposite things, and the toggle lets one person serve both. If you are unsure, start with whichever matches your surroundings right now and switch the moment the page starts to feel harsh — the correct theme is simply the one you stop noticing.

Motion controls govern the transitions and animated flourishes in the interface. Turning on reduced motion strips those movements back so the app settles instead of sliding, fading, and shifting as you move through it. Novus Learn also respects your operating system's reduced-motion preference, so if you have already asked your device for calmer interfaces, the app honors that without you repeating yourself.

Who is it for? This one is not cosmetic. For readers with vestibular disorders or motion sensitivity, interface animation can cause real dizziness or nausea, and reduced motion is an accessibility need rather than a taste. It also helps anyone who finds movement distracting while they concentrate — reducing motion keeps attention on the text and its citations instead of on the transitions carrying them.

Beyond theme and motion, Novus Learn's accessibility controls address the mechanics of reading and navigating: legible, resizable text so lines are comfortable rather than cramped, clear focus and keyboard navigation so the app is fully usable without a mouse, and structure that keeps a topic's source identity and citations reachable to assistive technology. The dedicated guide at Help centre documents these in depth.

Who is it for? Larger text serves anyone with low vision or simple eye fatigue at the end of a long day. Keyboard navigation and clear focus serve people who cannot or prefer not to use a pointer, and readers using screen readers or switch devices. Because Novus Learn keeps citations attached to claims rather than generating prose, that structure is exactly what assistive tools need to convey both what an article says and where it comes from.

The settings compound. A dense Wikipedia topic read at night is far kinder as dark theme, with reduced motion, at a comfortable text size, than in any single one of those alone. Because Novus Learn keeps you on real, cited encyclopedia pages rather than short generated blurbs, sessions can run long — and a reading environment tuned across all three groups is what makes a long, careful, follow-the-source session sustainable.

Set them as a small ritual before you dig in, and adjust the moment something starts to grate. The goal is not a perfect configuration you never touch; it is a reading surface that quietly gets out of the way so your attention goes to the topic and its sources. Your choices persist in your browser, so once you land on what works, it is there every time you return.

Your appearance, motion, and accessibility choices are saved locally in your browser, in keeping with the app's local-first, no-account stance — the same privacy model behind the local library. They are remembered on this device and never synced to a server or used to profile you. Change a browser or clear its data and the settings return to defaults, because they only ever lived here.

If a setting is not behaving as expected, the Help centre guides are the fastest route: Help centre for the accessibility controls in detail, Help centre for orientation, and Help centre when something looks wrong. And remember these controls only affect presentation — they never alter the source-grounded content itself, so no theme, motion, or accessibility choice will ever change an article or the citations it rests on.