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Why use e-books? 11_3_15

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Accessibility & e-books
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11/3/15

John Lee
Disability Resource Center

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What are e-books?

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E-book

  • A book that is read in digital form on a computer, portable e-reader, or other electronic device
  • It may or may not be a digital version of a printed book
  • Typical e-book formats: PDF, EPUB, DOC, HTML, AZW/MOBI (Kindle)
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Why e-books?

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They are more accessible

than print media
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Customizable & Convertible

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You can use them on a variety

of devices
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They're Portable

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e-books also allow you to multi-task

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Why is e-book accessibility

so important?
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It can help students with...

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Dyslexia

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Blindness & Low Vision

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Mobility Impairments

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English as a second language

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Auditory learning preferences

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It's the Law

  • ADA/Section 504
  • Section 508
  • Dear Colleague Letter re: e-book readers (from DOJ and DOE)
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Students served by DRC

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How do students with disabilities

read accessible e-books?
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Software, apps, & devices

Accessible e-reader
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Screen readers

& Text-to-speech
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Screen readers

  • VoiceOver for Mac OS & iOS
  • Windows 8/10 Narrator
  • JAWS, Window-Eyes
  • NVDA (free, open-source)
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Text-to-speech reading tools

  • Mac OS & iOS text-to-speech
  • Android's Google Text-to-speech
  • Adobe Reader's built-in text-to-speech
  • Balabolka free text-to-speech software for Windows
  • Voice Dream Reader app iOS/Android
  • Read & Write GOLD software (on all library PCs)
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Digital Braille

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Refreshable braille display

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Enlarged font,

magnification, and color contrast
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What makes e-books accessible?

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Accessible Features

  • Readable / tagged text
  • Logical reading order
  • Appropriate heading structure & styles
  • Alt text descriptions for images & graphics
  • Descriptive links
  • Accessible math & science notation
  • Closed captions (if videos are included)
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Avoid using image PDFs

They are unreadable to screen readers (JAWS)
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What makes e-readers accessible?

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Accessible Features

  • Customizable font size, color, magnification
  • Built-in text to speech
  • Text that is readable by screen readers or text-to-speech software/utilities
  • Screen-reader accessible menus & navigation
  • Flexible, user-friendly controls
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Examples of accessible e-readers

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Adobe Reader (PDF)

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Adobe Digital Editions (EPUB/PDF)

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VitalSource Bookshelf

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Kindle app & software (PC)

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Yuzu/Nook Study

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iBooks

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Calibre

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Voice Dream Reader app

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Challenges of Digital Rights Management

with regards to accessibility
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Best Practices for

creating/choosing accessible learning content
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Accessibility Principles

  • Perceivability
  • Operability
  • Understandability
  • Robustness
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Accessibility Tools

  • Most commonly used accessible file formats - PDF, EPUB 3
  • Adobe Acrobat software
  • PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2.0)
  • iBooks Author (Mac)
  • Book Creator (iOS/Android/Win)
  • Read Aloud EPUB 3 for iBooks
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adod.idrc.ocad.ca

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webaim.org

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floeproject.org

FLOE - Flexible Learning for Open Education
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Accessible Image Sample Book

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Affordable Learning Solutions

Online resources for
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als.csuprojects.org/accessibility

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oeraccess.merlot.org

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Bookshare.org

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FREE TECH TOOLS

For Faculty
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Read&Write for Google Chrome

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RoboBraille.org

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Disability Resource Center
Contact Information

John Lee:
jlee245@calpoly.edu

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http://mgonz154@calpoly.edu