Interactive features such as audio, video, graphics, links, and navigation tools allow users to control and explore digital texts. Audio and video enhance access for blind or visually impaired users but can have loading delays. Graphics visually convey information quickly but require technical knowledge. Links directly connect users to desired websites or content but are not always easy to memorize. Navigation tools aid exploration but can be irritating if loading is slow due to weak internet connections. These interactive features combine to make digital texts more engaging and accessible to users.

1. Interactive features
By Dayan ali syed

2. What are interactive features
Interactive feature is a feature which allows you control and explore digital texts
and enhance your understanding like nowadays e-newspapers have extra options
like audio and navigation tools which allow you to explore and control the digital
texts.
example:
This is the sign usually used to listen to recorded sound(Audio)
which is an interactive feature

3. Audio The symbol used for audio
Relating to hearing or sound.Sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or
reproduced.Any sound that you listen on your phone,computer,television and all
electronic devices.
Examples:
Listening to music(audio)
Watching movie while listening to its sounds

4. Advantages and disadvantages of audio
Audio enhances the access of digital devices as it allows you to hear to whatever
sound you want to hear on a digital device by this it can give access to blind
people and those people who have visual disabilities where as recorded audio
which is robotic is also boring for some people as it's always in the same tone ,it
does not vary with situations that's why it's called robotic.Audio always takes a
little bit of time for loading but sometimes it can take more time which depends on
the internet connection.

5. Video The symbol used for video
The recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.A recording
of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape. like when you watch
T.V,you are listening to the audio and watching the video , which is anything that
you are seeing
examples:
Playing a video game while watching a
A video camera recording video video

6. Advantages and disadvantages of video
It avoids the participants having to spend time travelling to meet each other. The
participants in different locations are able to work,discuss,study and talk all at the
same time.You can watch and observe everything even things that you yourself
havent seen.Whereas for video you need a good stable connection to the devices
which are providing it to our phones,televisions and etc like an internet connection
through a internet device.online videos take time load and are not always clear
according to the internet connections

7. Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on a surface, such as a computer screen.
Examples are photographs, drawing, graphics designs, maps, engineering
drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text and illustration.
Example:
Like a picture of a girl is edited to become like this what you are seeing in the
above picture this is done by editing in the graphics of the picture

8. Advantages and Disadvantages of graphics
Quick way for the audience to visualize what you are saying -- numbers, trends,
up or down,Forceful -- emphasizes main point,Convincing -- proves a point, see
and hear.Compact way to convey information and More interesting than just talk
or print .Whereas it is Time consuming to make -- decisions must be made in
advance for layout, color, materials, etc.Technical in nature -- audience knowledge
to interpret, or understand and Costly -- depending on the medium used (poster
board, transfer letters, etc.)

9. Links
a relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the
other.A ring or loop in a chain.Digital links are code like sentences which take you
to a blog or website
Example: The official google logo
WWW.GOOGLE.COM
This is the link to google so whenever someones wants to visit to google
he/she type this on the internet explorer

10. Advantages and Disadvantages of links
Links are the ones which take us directly to the thing which we are looking for like
when we are looking for youtube as we want to use it we type down its link and
youtube's official site opens up.links are not indirect they are direct they just take us
directly to the which we are looking for.But the links are not easy to memorise as they
are code like and sometimes links take a little bit of time to load the load the page
depending on the internet connection
Example:The link for youtube is www.youtube.com
The link for facebook is www.facebook.com

11. Page navigation(navigation tools)
A navigation page is a special type of page that can be added to other pages to
provide a consistent set of navigational elements. A typical navigation page
might contain a logo, the page title, a login link, and a link to the home
page.Navigation tools are used for page navigation so they allow us to explore
more easily and quickly.Like the zoom in and zom out signs on any page.
Example:
Zoom in and zoom out signs which are found on most of the
pages.These are navigation tools which are used for a page
navigation

12. Advantages and disadvantages of navigation
pages
These pages increase our knowledge about them with the help of navigation
tools.With the help of these pages on the tools on it like the zoom in and zoom out
and audio ,people who have visual problems can even know about everything on
the page.But navigation pages can be really irritating too ,as due to weak internet
connections its navigation tools sometimes take a lot of time to load.navigation
pages are not simple to use in order to use them you have to know all the signs of
the navigation tools unless you will mess up and waste your time

13. Why are these features combined in digital texts
Audio,video,graphics,links and page navigation are the interactive features which
are usually found in digital texts.these are really important in a digital text as they
allow us to see,explore and observe the text,only because of these features
people like to read digital texts because these things make a text more attractive
for people and more interesting for them.