The Gale Primary Sources platform has been developed with great care and attention to accessibility needs.

Accessibility features include:

  • Flexible image viewer - includes a zoom and colour reversion features.
  • Icon design - icons have been designed to be as clear and accessible as possible, for users with various accessibility needs
  • Colour choices
  • Clear platform navigation
  • Advanced Search features
  • OCR and metadata - helping those who use screen readers to access the content within historical documents.
  • Use the ‘Adjust Image’ feature in Gale Primary Sources to change the contrast or invert colours of document images.
  • Read OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text for the majority of Gale Primary Sources archives.

  • Zoom in up to 200% using the browser zoom function without requiring horizontal scrolling.

  • Use a keyboard to navigate the site without encountering keyboard traps.


Hear below from Tabetha Kenlon, scholar of early-modern literature, about how Gale Primary Sources meets her accessibility needs.

In this video, Tabetha demonstrates how she uses Eighteenth Century Collections Online as a partially sighted scholar.

In this video, learn more about Tabetha's fascinating research on Conduct Manuals in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.


This page is specifically about the ways the Gale Primary Sources platform meets the needs of those with differing accessibility needs. To see full accessibility information for all Gale platforms and resources, visit gale.com/accessibility.
 

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If you have any feedback or comments about Gale Primary Sources and accessibility, our Product Managers would love to hear from you! Please contact: [email protected].