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A Customized Digital Library For Students With Impairments in Written Communication Dirk Lembrechts, Jan Rottier

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Project number: 224348Project acronym: AEGISProject title: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, StandardsStarting date: 1 September 2008Duration: 48 MonthsAEGIS is an Integrated Project (IP) within the ICT programme of FP7

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A Customized Digital Library

For Students With Impairments

in Written Communication

Dirk Lembrechts, Jan Rottier

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Digital Library

Adapted Digital Text Books (ADIBIB)

Elementary and secondary level

For text-to-speech software

Students with severe reading - writing disorders

Conversion to software independent tagged PDFfiles

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Past three years:

• From 15 tot 900 books

• From 250 to 1500 users

• In 2010-2011 10.000 books ordered

• Only two formats : most commonly used

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2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011

jun

mei

apr

maa

feb

jan

dec

nov

okt

sept

aug

juli

1 july 2008 - 30 june 2009: 248

1 july 2009 - 30 june 2010: 1 240

1 july 2010 - 31 may 2011: 1 401

25% of users are secondary education students

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Unique

- Partnership (see next slide)

- Managed by a ‘trusted third party’

- Tool

- Broad target audience

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Publishers

• The six biggest (education)

• And their union

Software vendors

• The two biggest

• Quality of software is determining for quality of digital books

Organisation of audio books

• Extensive experience and capacity

Ministery of Education

• Structural financial support since September 2011

WIN-WIN

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Traget audience

Only attested

- Dyslexia

- Dyspraxia

- Visual disability

- Physical disability

- Special education

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New Tool

Software independent

Automatisation

Reducing of time : factor 5 to 10

(approximately 1 to 5 hours for one book)

Output: tagged PDF format

After automatic conversion: visual inspection

and correction

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book

pages

Conversion time

Sprint

Conversion time

Kurzweil

Bonjour les enfants 2+handboek

112 5:00 21 :45

Eventail junior bien sur 5 handboek

112 6:00 12:00

Concorde 1 TSO werkboek

169 2:00 7:30

FrancoFan 1werkboek 87 1:45 8:35

En scéne 1T - Leerwerkboek

576 19:45 70:30

Markant 2 – leerwerkboek(Nederl)

448 8:40 28:20

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Conversion software

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Tool for final visual inspection/correction

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- Sensitive

- Maximum security and minimum inconvenience

- Watermarked digital files (name student, school,

date)

- Every user of digital books has a paper version

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Book

available

on

website?

Yes

No

Ordering

Free (Only

shipping)

Burning

on cd Shipping

Request

to ADIBib

ADIBib to

publisher

Publisher

PDF to

ADIBIB

Automatic

and

manual

conversion

Book on

website

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- In 2012: more automation at all levels

- In 2012: digital download

- Low threshold

- User driven

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Broader goal group

Every education level (also higher education,

adult education, second change eductione, …)

Collaboration with more publishers, software

companies, …

More then 1000 new titels a year