Ebook Accessibility

Accessibility features

A variety of accessibility features are available from the suppliers of ebooks, such as changing background colours, changing contrast colours or adjusting your device's text display settings - these are described by individual supplier's Accessibility Statements in the table below.

The Eresources and Assistive technology page shows you how to enable accessibility settings in Proquest and Ebsco and check out the Assistive technology pages for more general help.

Read aloud or Screen Readers

This is a really useful feature for everyone who is fed up of reading a screen.
It varies between our three main ebook suppliers and also whether you access the title online or download it. Details are below or on our Ebook screen reader options document [PDF]

Collection	Read Online	Download
Proquest Ebook Central	Change the screen view, then use a screen reader eg ATBar Click on Settings In Profile enter email address twice Turn accessibility on Save changes.	Download a PDF chapter. Open in Microsoft Edge or Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use the Read Aloud function. Download the whole book Uses Adobe Digital Editions. Read aloud is then available via separate screen reader technology
VLEbooks	Read Aloud is available Click on the icon on the menu bar	Download the whole book Uses Adobe Digital Editions. Read aloud is then available via separate screen reader technology.
Ebsco Ebooks	No Read Aloud function	Download a PDF chapter. Open in Microsoft Edge or Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use the Read Aloud function. Download the whole book Uses Adobe Digital Editions. Read aloud is then available via separate screen reader technology

Individual device websites:

Android accessibility settings

iOS – iPhone –iPad accessibility settings

Mac accessibility settings

PC/Windows accessibility settings