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Are e-books for everyone? An evaluation of academic e-book platforms' accessibility features

机译：电子书适合所有人吗？对学术电子书平台的辅助功能的评估

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With the increasing prevalence of e-books in academic library collections, faculty and librarians have begun to express concern regarding the accessibility of these digital texts for students with physical or learning disabilities. To begin addressing these concerns, the California State University System's Affordable Learning Solutions initiative-a campaign designed to encourage faculty use of library e-books and open-access texts as replacements for expensive textbooks-funded the Ebooks Accessibility Project at San Jose State University (SJSU). The Ebooks Accessibility Project evaluated the major accessibility features of 16 of the most popular academic e-book platforms in academic libraries. It was discovered that single-publisher platforms, such as Gale, Palgrave, and Springer, offered more accessibility features than aggregators like ProQuest and ACLS Humanities. Both single publisher and aggregator platforms, however, lack basic accessibility features that commercial e-book providers have long offered, such as background contrast adjustment and page reflow. On the positive side, most of the publishers evaluated did offer text resizing (or zoom) and were compatible with some form of screen reading technology, the most important features for users with print disabilities. Librarians are encouraged to let publishers know that accessibility is a major consideration in their e-book adoptions and urge their compliance with common accessibility standards.
机译：随着大学图书馆中电子书的普及，教师和图书馆员开始对身体或学习障碍学生对这些数字文本的可访问性表示关注。为了解决这些问题，加利福尼亚州立大学系统的“负担得起的学习解决方案”计划旨在鼓励教师使用图书馆电子书和开放获取的文本来代替昂贵的教科书，该运动由圣何塞州立大学的“电子书无障碍项目”资助（ SJSU）。电子书可访问性项目评估了大学图书馆中16种最受欢迎​​的学术电子书平台的主要可访问性功能。人们发现，像Gale，Palgrave和Springer这样的单一发布者平台提供了比ProQuest和ACLS Humanities等聚合器更多的可访问性功能。但是，单一出版商和聚合器平台都缺乏商业电子书提供商长期以来提供的基本可访问性功能，例如背景对比度调整和页面重排。从积极的方面来看，大多数接受评估的发行商都提供了文本调整大小（或缩放）功能，并且与某种形式的屏幕阅读技术兼容，这对于有阅读障碍的用户来说是最重要的功能。鼓励图书馆员让出版商知道可访问性是其采用电子书时的主要考虑因素，并敦促他们遵守通用的可访问性标准。

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