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The New Age of Producing, Distributing, and Consuming Accessible Information A paradigm shift Bernhard Heinser [email protected] IFLA - eBooks for everyone! Paris, 23 August 2014 1

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A Paradigm Shift. Bernhard Heinser's presentation at the IFLA: eBooks for Everyone conference in Paris, August 23rd, 2014.

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The New Age of Producing,

Distributing, and Consuming Accessible

Information

A paradigm shift

Bernhard Heinser [email protected]

IFLA - eBooks for everyone! Paris, 23

August 2014

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Presumptions

The commercial market adopts EPUB 3 (including education

and STEM)

EPUB 3 is the best solution for accessibility purposes

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Consuming Electronic Publications - Key Aspects

Navigability (absolutely necessary for everybody, print disabled or not)

Rendering modalities (text, audio [human narration / text-to-speech], image, video, [Braille output through Braille display])

Perception channels (one modality can be alternatively replaced / complemented by other modalities, synchronization of the rendering modalities)

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Current ModelSeparate Work Flows

Publishing industry / print oriented / mainstream formats / mainstream distribution channels

Products are not accessible

Specialized agencies / multimedia oriented / special formats / special distribution channels

Accessibility is added through ex post format conversion processesBernhard Heinser

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Future ModelIntegrated Work Flows

►The publishing industry brings (electronic) publications to the market that are born accessible

►Where necessary, the industry is supported by the accessibility experts before the product is delivered

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Required Changes

Publishing industry: From print oriented to multiple output formats oriented work flows

Specialized agencies :From producers of accessible material to service providers for the publishing industry

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Who benefits?

The publishing industry (considerably enlarged market)

Persons with Disabilities throughout the world (several hundreds of millions)

The States (implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)

The whole society (Inclusion)Bernhard Heinser [email protected]

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Conclusion in the Light of Converging Interests

INCLUSIVE PUBLISHING

All stakeholders are invited to combine their efforts in order to implement a system that

benefits EVERYBODY

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