Yes, our newer PDFs are ADA compliant. While EBSCOhost itself is ADA compliant, many of our older PDFs are not. Native PDFs that were sent directly from the publisher are compatible with screen reading software, but the older image-only PDFs cannot be read by accessibility tools.

EBSCO began providing its scanned PDFs with an Optical Character Reader (OCR) text layer in September 2004. Because our search engine displays results in chronological order, the more recent PDFs on a Result List should be readable with screen reader software such as JAWS®.