Navigation links for help, feedback, FAQ, etc.

Navigation links for search and collections

About › Our Digital Library › Searching, Reading, and Building Collections › Accessibility

Accessibility

The HathiTrust Digital Library is committed to making our interface as accessible as possible. We have incorporated special markup throughout the site but have focused special attention on the PageTurner (the part of the site that displays images & text of materials in the digital library). The HathiTrust PageTurner currently passes section 508 requirements.

We welcome any comments or suggestions that will help us improve it further. Please use the feedback link at the top of any page.

Services for Users with Disabilities

Users at partner institutions who are certified as having a print disability are eligible to view special text versions of public domain volumes in HathiTrust, and in-copyright volumes that are held or have previously been held by partnering institution libraries (note: as of January 2012 this service is available on a pilot basis only at the University of Michigan. University of Michigan students can learn more on the MLibrary website. Infrastructure is in place to expand access to all partner institutions, and we encourage institutions to make preparations to receive access by completing the steps below. We hope to enable expand services in the coming months). In order to gain access institutions will need:

  1. To be configured for authentication to HathiTrust via Shibboleth, see http://www.hathitrust.org/shibboleth
  2. To have provided HathiTrust with information about their print holdings
  3. To have a local process by which eligible users can be certified as having a print disability
  4. To convey certification status through the ShibboletheduPersonEntitlement attribute

If you belong to a HathiTrust partner institution that is not configured for authentication via Shibboleth please contact your institutional library or office for persons with disabilities to inquire about configuration plans. Please also feel free to contact HathiTrust or have your institution contact HathiTrust at feedback@issues.hathitrust.org.

Access Keys

We have added access keys to the PageTurner to help navigate the page.

How to use access keys

Access keys allow you to use the keyboard to skip to different sections of the page and switch book views.
Each browser uses a different combination of keys to activate an access key. Below is a list of these combinations.

PC browsers

  • Internet Explorer 6+: Hold down the ALT key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER
  • Netscape 7: Hold down the ALT key and press the number or letter of the access key
  • Mozilla/Firefox < 2.0: Hold down the ALT key and press the number or letter of the access key
  • Mozilla/Firefox 2.0+: Hold down the ALT and SHIFT keys and press the number or letter of the access key

Mac browsers

  • Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key
  • Mozilla/Firefox: Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key
  • Safari: Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key

Access Keys assigned in HathiTrust Digital Library Pageturner

  • Access Key 2: Skip site navigation
  • Access Key 5: Switch to full text OCR for current book
  • Access Key f: Go to first page in book
  • Access Key p: Go to previous page in book
  • Access Key n: Go to next page in book
  • Access Key l: Go to last page in book