design for all | giulia bussotti
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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!
