The Gale Primary Sources platform has been developed with great care and attention to accessibility needs.

Accessibility features include:

• Adjust image feature changes the contrast and brightness, or inverts colours of document images.
• Ability to zoom via the document viewer.
• Compatibility with assistive technology such as screen readers.
• Ability to use a keyboard to navigate the Gale Primary Sources platform without encountering keyboard traps
• Consistent tagging - Interface elements, such as ARIA regions and links, are consistently tagged so users can easily navigate the site.
• Plain text/OCR panel allows the primary source content to be read by assistive technology.
• Icon design – Icons have been designed to be as clear and accessible as possible. For example, icons do not convey information or meaning using colour only: whenever colour is used to convey information, it is paired with an alternative method of conveyance, such as a descriptive word.
• File download – Ability to download .pdf files of primary source documents, and .txt files of document OCR, which can be read by a screen reader.
• Transcripts and closed captions of video and audio content.