Adaptive and Assistive Features: Digital Books and Media

 

Our Digital Resources offer content with features that increase accessibility to patrons with disabilities. You can access our Digital Resources entirely from home with your Library Card number and password.

Don't have a Library Card? Apply for a Library Card online.

eBooks & eAudiobooks

Libby provides eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines and offers a number of accessible features.

For an overview of accessible features and how to use them, check out Libby for Every Reader, a free short course from Libby.

Individual articles can be found on the Libby help site:

cloudLibrary and hoopla allow you to change the font size in ebooks, and offer eAudiobook collections. cloudLibrary also allows you to select dyslexic font.

Video

hoopla endeavors to provide closed captioning for all video content when available. You can view their accessibility statement by clicking on the PDF below.

Kanopy offers accessibility features for visually impaired users and deaf or hard of hearing users, as follows:

  • Kanopy's website and video player works with screen reader technologies on desktop browsers, as well as iOS and Android devices. 
  • Keyboard navigation is supported for all browsers and the video player allows users to tab into the player from elsewhere on the web page or browser.
  • Closed captioning is available for all video content.
  • Kanopy is working to upgrade their video player to support audio description and are experimenting by adding audio description with some pilot films for users. Following this, they will be able to make audio described versions of films when available from our content partners. 

For Kids

The TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books for children in English, Spanish and French. The Chapter Books collection allows readers to change the colors of the background and text, as well as the font style, size and line spacing.

Some children's eBooks in the Libby collection also include narration.

hoopla also offers a number of eBooks with read-along technology that can be streamed to devices (Chromecast, Roku, Apple TV).