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Accessibility Information for Library Resources

OCR readable PDFs and HTML text

Most of our databases should provide OCR readable texts. 

Access Science Text to Speech Accessibility

As the Access Science reference works are displayed as a webpage text to speech readers should work.

McGraw-Hill the publishers of Access Sciences provide services to those with accessibility issues:

Text to Speech Accessibility EBSCO

The PDF versions of ebooks should be text to speech reader friendly. Here is accessibility help information provided by EBSCO.

Gale Text to Speech Accessibility

There are usually Listen or  MP3 download options available with each entry as well as a text to speech readable webpage. Here is accessibility help information provided by Gale.

Oxford University Press Text to Speech Accessibility

"Oxford Reference has WCAG, AA compliance and works with most popular screen-reading software." taken from their FAQs page. Here is accessibility policy provided by Oxford University Press (OUP).

Sage Knowledge Text to Speech Accessibility

Sage Knowledge has the ability to resize text and the webpages/pdfs should be readable by screen-readers.If you are still having difficulty with access to Sage you can request a pdf

SpringerLink Text to Speech Accessibility

SpringerLink has webpages and downloadable pdfs that should be readable by screen-readers.

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