Unitec Library is excited to announce upcoming improvements to our ProQuest Ebook Central e-books, making them more accessible and easier to use. (ProQuest Ebook Central supplies the majority of Unitec Library’s e-books.) These changes include:
Enhanced accessibility features, including:
- Navigating using just a keyboard or speech recognition
software
- Navigating using a screen reader
- Going directly to main content areas on the page using
skip links (web)
- Listening to an ebook using a screen reader with Text
Only Mode enabled
- Zooming in up to 200% using browser tools without text
spilling off the screen
(These changes meet Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2))
An
easier way to download whole e-books or chapters of e-books
Adobe Digital Editions will no longer be needed. Instead, users will be able to download content through the new ProQuest Ebook Central App.
We are expecting this change to go live by 27 July 2026, and we will update the library’s ‘Ebooks at Unitec Library’ guide with new, clear instructions.
Ngā mihi nui,
The Unitec Library team
