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Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Services for Accessible Textbooks
G e o r g io s K o u r o u p e tro g lo u
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Speech and Accessibility Lab.
Department of Informatics and telecommunications
e-mail: [email protected]
University of Macedonia,
Thessaloniki, 27-29 August 2012
Accessible textbook creation and distribution procedure
1. Student makes a request for an accessible textbook
2. Accessibility Unit makes a request to the publisher for the textbook in a digital format
3. The textbook is delivered to the Accessibility Unit in the best format available, often in print
4. The textbook is converted to editable digital format:
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Scanning
Optical Character Recognition
Content, structure and format recovery
5. Editing of mathematical and scientific expressions
6. Pictures, images, diagrams and figures rendering in accessible format
7. Textbook’s conversion in alternative accessible formats
8. Result’s quality check
9. Copyright and digital rights ensurance
10. Accessible textbook delivery
11. Notification to publisher about textbook’s disposal
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Accessible formats of textooks
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Plain text - .txt
Rich text - .rtf
Accessible markup - .xml .xhtml .html
Large print - .docx .pdf
Text to speech - .mp3
DAISY
Braille ready - .brf
Microsoft Word - .docx
Portable Document Format - .pdf
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Integrated Information System for Accessible Textbooks
Web-based Services:
• Users’ Management Subsystem
• Digital Content Management Subsystem
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Users’ Management Subsystem
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User sign up service
User authentication service
User rights management service
Students’ accessible textbooks requests service
Digital textbooks requests to publishers service
Requests’ progress monitoring service
Requests’ statistics service
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Digital Content Management Subsystem
1. Scanning service
2. Original digital textbook copy submission service
3. Original digital textbook Optical Character Recognition
service
4. Digital textbook (under preparation) version management
service
5. Digital textbook accessible formats archive management
service
6. Copyright management service
7. Accessible digital textbooks distribution service
8. Digital content usage statistics service
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Main functional requirements and specifications (1/3)
1. Requirement: all web services should be accessible from a web browser
• Specification: all popular web browsers must be supported (e.g., Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.). The latest versions
of these web browsers must deliver the web interface correctly
independently of the platform (i.e., Microsoft Windows, Linux based
operating systems, Mac OS X, etc.). The graphical, haptic, or sound user
interface as perceived by the users must not be different among the
supported web browsers and platforms.
2. Requirement: web services that the disabled students use should be
accessible not only from desktop personal computers, but from other
portable devices also.
• Specification: web browsers built in portable devices (PDAs, smart phones,
tablets, etc.), and the corresponding operating systems (Mobile Windows,
Symbian, Android, etc) must be supported without any information loss for
the end user.
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Main functional requirements and specifications (2/3)
3. Requirement: the web interface of all web service should be
accessible to the disabled.
• Specification: web interface must comply with the World Wide Web
Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative’s Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, and must be achieve an AA level
certification by the validation tools.
4. Requirement: the web services should be delivered with
personalized interactivity and accessibility preferences whenever
the end users choose this.
• Specification: user profiles that specify the interaction with the
system and the content presentation style must be supported. For
example, magnification for users with low vision, virtual keyboard for
users with upper limb motor disabilities, etc.
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Main functional requirements and specifications (3/3)
5. Requirement: users’ personal data and databases should be
protected according to the personal data protection legislation.
• Specification: encryption and security policy must be applied during
data manipulation, especially when data is routed through the
Internet, as well as on the data store media and data centers.
6. Common requirement for services that involve digital content:
alternative accessible digital formats should be supported.
• Specification: all aforementioned formats must be available when
applicable.
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
The System’s Functional Architecture
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Web Services Deployment and Operation Environment
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities
http://access.uoa.gr
e-mail: [email protected]
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens
Call for papers on Accessibility of Documents
A Special Session of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
and the 7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
21-26 July 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)
Session topics: structural analysis of documents, talking books, speech based accessibility of documents,
tactile and audiotactile based accessibility of documents, auditory rendition of visual and non visual
elements of documents, accessibility of scientific notation, maths and formulas, accessibility of tables, lists,
diagrams & charts, Natural Language Processing for Document Accessibility, knowledge acquisition and
reasoning in documents, ontology based representation in documents, DAISY based accessibility of
documents, non-visual navigation in documents, multimodal interaction with documents, cognitive design in
non-visual document interaction, design for all in document accessibility, location based / ubiquitous access
to documents, web document accessibility, standards for universal accessibility of documents.
All papers will appear in Proceedings volumes of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) published by Springer.
Deadline for 2-3 page abstract submission: 20 October 2012
Deadline for camera-ready papers (6-10 pages): 1 February 2013
Session chair: Georgios Kouroupetroglou, University of Athens
For more information contact the session chair by e-mail: [email protected]
Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities, University of Athens