Guide to Accessibility
About
The Hathi Trust Digital Library is making efforts to make our interfaces as accessible as possible.
The Hathi Trust pageturner currently passes section 508 requirements.
We welcome any comments or suggestions that will help us
improve it further. email DLPS-help at umich dot edu
Services for Students with Disabilities
Special text-only versions of materials may be available to affiliates of HathiTrust partner institutions who have a print disability. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility.
Access Keys
We have added access keys to and other markup to improve the accessibility (see below for more information).
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 ke.
- 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 Hathi Trust 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