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Digital Accessibility & eBook

Ideas for Accessible and Innovative Reading

What is Web Accessibility?

“Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web…”

- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

Dispelling Some Myths

• Blind people reado VIPs (Visual Impared People) in Italy read on

average 9.2 books a year, compared with other people who read only 2 books a year.

• 30% of VIPs know the braille language o So How read everyone else? They listen to the

text.

Features of a Digital Text:

• Multimodality • Machine readable

Real revolution in reading habits and autonomy for disable people

Assistive Technologies

Since there are computers, there are disabled people who use computers

Tablets and Smartphones

Within our devices it is a synthetic speech that allows blind people to navigate the tool and all applications.

Working on Content Accessibility

PublisherseBooks

Web developer Web pages

Format for eBook

Standard = open, interoperability, compatibility, research, innovation, network

Specification for Accessibile eBook• Semantic structure of content• Table of content• Alternative text for graphic elements• Font, style and color• Navigable table • Language of the speech• Soft DRM

Case History: The LIA Project

LIA solutions

The theme of accessibility enters in publishing production processes as integrating element, no longer as a feature to add ex post.

• Verification, Check and Certification • LIA compliant interactive label • LIA platform: www.libriitalianiaccessibili.it

Unresolved Issues and Big Challange in Accessible Publishing

• The big player in digital publishing market• Adobe DRM (Digital Right Management)

could save the copyright?• Educational is the real challange!

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