Gale Cengage Learning

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is in the business of providing authoritative reference content to educational institutions. As such, Gale devotes considerable time to obtaining feedback from students, teachers, and researchers on how to make its offerings more accessible. One bit of feedback that Gale heard clearly was that its users wanted to be able to listen. Therefore Gale incorporated ReadSpeaker® to provide text-to-speech capabilities in its online databases, providing Gale users the ability to have content read aloud to them in addition to being able to read it.

Gale emphasizes that accessibility is far and away the primary driver behind the implementation of ReadSpeaker®.

One of the biggest things we heard from our customers was that we needed to better meet the needs of those students for whom reading text on a screen was a challenge: those at lower reading levels, those with learning disabilities, English as a second language students, and students who are visually impaired. From that feedback, we felt that making our content available with text-to-speech was the natural solution.

Read further how ReadSpeaker® helps Gale students and researchers who face a wide range of challenges - from tight schedules to visual impairments - to put the educational content to good use.