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