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.
Reports & Statistics - COUNTER reporting will be upgraded to support release 5.1 Code of Practice to maintain industry compliance. Users will be able to access, generate and schedule COUNTER R5.1 & SUSHI server reports. COUNTER R5 & R5.1 reporting ability will live concurrently until EBSCO deprecates the R5 customer facing reports in June 2025.
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.
Text to Speech for PDF and HTML are available on New UI