Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this video, Dr Tabitha Kenlon, Scholar of Early Modern Literature, explains how she uses ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and other Gale archives as a partially sighted scholar. She begins by demonstrating what adjustments she makes to be able to use any online platform and then explores some of the tools and features on the Gale Primary Sources platform that make it very accessible to her, allowing her to complete research with these fascinating historical documents.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Accessibility issues afflict many websites
0:46 How Tabitha navigates ECCO and other Gale archives
1:01 The Landing Page
1:55 Page Navigation
2:16 Searching the Archive
2:48 Sorting Search Results
3:05 Examining a Text
3:36 Searching within a Document
3:56 Tool Icons
4:37 Term Frequency Tool
5:43 Considering a range of visual impairments is vital
In this video, Dr Tabitha Kenlon, Scholar of Early Modern Literature, explains how she uses ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and other Gale archives as a partially sighted scholar. She begins by demonstrating what adjustments she makes to be able to use any online platform and then explores some of the tools and features on the Gale Primary Sources platform that make it very accessible to her, allowing her to complete research with these fascinating historical documents.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Accessibility issues afflict many websites
0:46 How Tabitha navigates ECCO and other Gale archives
1:01 The Landing Page
1:55 Page Navigation
2:16 Searching the Archive
2:48 Sorting Search Results
3:05 Examining a Text
3:36 Searching within a Document
3:56 Tool Icons
4:37 Term Frequency Tool
5:43 Considering a range of visual impairments is vital
