E books in public libraries. vendors in poland and usa
Accessibility issues with ebooks
1.
2. About accessibility
Costs and problems
Formats, tools and standards
Legal acts
Quick peek into issues present in
highr education facilities
publishers.
where are libraries in this all?
Summary
4. It’s a term related to print disability, ”which means – with
respect to the individual – a physical or mental impairment
in seeing or reading”
(work definition by the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials
in Postsecondary Education, AIM Commission)
People covered by this term:
blind
with severe visual impairments, including effects of aging
with injuries or nerve disabilities preventing form managing books
with learning disabilities
with text comprehension issues
Why accessibility of ebooks is important?
5. TIME
running through high-speed scanner and optical
character recognition
editing digital content
adding logical structure
making accessible form
DAISY book, large print, Braille readable format
MONEY
min. $400 per book, less for books without complex
graphic content
~$1,800 (!) per book from STEM disciplines
EFFORT
10. DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System)
gold standard for accessible e-book formats since
1996, managed by DAISY Consortium
referred to as DTB, digital talking book
semantic structure included, allows software to
navigate easily within the book
may inclde high-quality synthetic speech or/and
prerecorded audio
EPUB 3 specification takes DAISY solutions into
consideration
FUTURE ACCESSIBLE E-BOOK FORMAT?
11. MOBI/AZW
▪ simple EPUB application
▪ supports basic data tables and adding text alternatives for images
▪ doesn’t have rich semantic structure
▪ basic ways of navigation
PDF
taged content
actual text (not images),
International Association for Information and Image
Manegement, PDF/AU
text-to-speech function
can be read by many devices
13. National Information Standards Organization
NISO list 1999
Worl Wide Web Consortium
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines UAAG 1.0
2002
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines UAAG
2.0 worked in progress (aligned with Web
Content Accessibilit Guidelines)
draft: www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/
14. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
– for K-12
The Americans with Disabilities Act Title II
(http://www.ada.gov/taman2.html)
Federal Rehabilitation Act, Section 504
(http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/sec504.htm,
Fact Sheet:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/resources/factsheets/
504.pdf, Myths and Truths:
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/spec-
ed/pdfs/parent_guide/ch15-section_504.pdf)
15. United States Code on Copyright, Title 27,
chapter 1, the Chafee amendement:
designated authorized entities to distribute
accessible copies of books to people who are
blind or have other organic disabilities
affecting reading process
= Libraries?
16. National Library Service
Bookshare
American Printing House for Blind (APH)
Learning Ally
Disability Services offices?
LEGAL STATUS for conversion is unclear, an
issue, problematic, open to question…
18. Major consuments of reading technologies
Can provide easy access to technologies
Could partner with campus media production
units of disability services offices
Rise avereness of the issue
Broadly speaking – go toward pressing
universality of ebook formats and providing
accessibility for the widest possible user base
19.
20. accessibility, print disability
proccess of converting books, digital-born
ebooks
formats: DAISY, MOBI, PDF
higher education conflict
Where publishers stand
What libraries can do