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- OCR and metadata - helping those who use screen readers to access the content within historical documents.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.
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Read OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text for the majority of Gale Primary Sources archives.
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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.