EBSCO eBooks users now have access to the following new functionality to align with requirements of the European Accessibility Act: accessibility metadata displayed for every EBSCO eBook in the new UI; an EPUB limiter for eBooks in new UI; line, word, and character spacing controls for EPUB formatted eBooks; text-to-speech functionality for PDF and EPUB formatted eBooks; and a user-facing remediation request form for EBSCO full text content to request an alternate format.
Publication Finder and Full Text Finder are now available on Connect
After a recent third-party audit performed by Deque, our teams have been working diligently to update our conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA. Our newest VPAT (posted on Connect) reflects these updates.
Libraries can now opt-in to Recommendations, which enables patrons to discover and explore related research more easily with a brand-new “More like this” button on the search results page and individual detail record pages, powered by EBSCOhost subject metadata
EBSCO’s proprietary recommendation engine leverages our unique subject metadata to identify similar articles at the point of user need, helping students and patrons explore new subjects and articles in a fun way in EBSCO Discovery Service and the EBSCO Mobile App
Text to Speech for PDF and HTML are available on New UI