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Library Vendor E-Resources Accessibility Options: Electronic Books (eBooks)

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

AMS eBooks

The AMS works with university disability coordinators and librarians to provide accessible electronic files and other alternative formats of our books for students and researchers who need them. They are also building on the technology underlying MathViewer to expand our offerings of eBooks in the ePUB file format. Please contact alt-format-request@ams.org to learn more or request an alternate format of an AMS title.

Gale Cengage

eBook Platform Accessibility

Gale eBook titles include accessible features such as alt text for images, and a request that third-party publisher partners also provide accessible files. Gale eBooks are available as HTML text which support re-sizing and reflow and text to speech access. Where available, no Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions exist on copying or printing. More information is available at Gale Platform Accessibility Policy.

SAGE

Sage produces all eBooks in ePub2 and ePub3, with only a few exceptions.

Our ePub3 content incorporates MathML as well as navigational and structural tagging, indicates reading order, and is compatible with many text-to-speech and magnification tools. It is optimized for performance in the Firefox browser with the free NVDA screen reader. ePub3 files of Sage US College titles published since January 1, 2019, include IDPF-compliant accessibility metadata in addition to alternative text and long descriptions where needed.

DRM varies by product, platform, content format, and distribution channel. SAGE endeavors to enforce a light DRM footprint.

ProQuest

Accessibility of Books on ProQuest

Books on the ProQuest eBook platform use the ProQuest eBook Central viewer which provides many accessibility features. These features are explained in detail in the Ebook Central Accessibility Statement.  A few of the features include the following:

  • Book formats are displayed in EPUB and PDF
  • A majority of chapters and titles are available on Ebook Central with download, copy, or print restrictions
  • The ProQuest platform supports alternative text and image descriptions when provided by the publishers
  • A "Text Only Mode" can be enabled
  • Some books on the platform are available in full text format. For users who wish to have the full text articles read to them, a text to speech option is available at support.proquest.com/articledetail?id=kA13r0000003VfDCAU