Senus Access

http://www.sensusaccess.com

Gemma HoltamAssistive Technology Officerg.holtam@sheffield.ac.uk

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Contents• What is Sensus Access?• How it works• How could students use it

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Senus Access is an online alternative formats tool. It can be used to turn a range of text based files into formats including, mp3, digital braille and e-book. It can also be used to turn PDFs to Word.

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What is it?

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How does it work?

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MP3 = Text-to-Speech

E-book = changes the file to an EPUB, EPUB3 or MOBI (Kindle). It can be opened and saved in a Kindle app or iBooks.

Braille = Digital Braille Accessibility conversion

Turns PDF to Word docsAdds accessibility tags to PDFS

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MP3 Audio

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E-book

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Chloe• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=SIKQGerrU1c

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Student case studyNow were going to look at a problem a student has presented me with this year and discuss how SA could be used to resolve the issue.

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Fern

New computer looking for free ATThrough the DSA Fern was awarded a computer and AT at the start of her degree. For her final year she’s decided to treat herself to a Macbook Air but has found that her AT isn’t compatible and she can’t afford to buy the mac versions of the software.

Fern used to use the scanning function in Read and Write to turn PDFs into Word docs. How could SA solve this problem?

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AnswerThe accessibility conversion tool in SA could be used to do this.

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Fair usage policyIf Sensus Access is going to be used on an institutional basis then a site license would be needed.

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