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e-Text Not All Created Equally. What to consider when choosing e-text as your alternate format. Your Objective. Access to the right information at the right time and at the right place. Accessibility and Independence. Guiding terminology or over simplification?. Who Will Produce the e-Text?.
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e-TextNot All Created Equally What to consider when choosing e-text as your alternate format.
Your Objective • Access to the right information at the right time and at the right place.
Accessibility and Independence • Guiding terminology or over simplification?
Who Will Produce the e-Text? • Accessibility • Independence Student produced professionally produced
Some Factors to Consider Need to consider: • Print layout • Production resources • End-user Student produced professionally produced
Print Layout Factors • columns and tables • foreign languages • Programming code • Math, science, and statistics • Graphics • Non-standard fonts
Production Resource Factors Quality Time
End-user Factors • Nature of print impairment • Skills and technology • Time / course load • Learning style
Another Look • Accessibility Usability • Independence Efficiency Student produced professionally produced