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Cultural Heritage: accessible for all? SEEDI 2006 - Sofia

Explore how document architectures can make cultural heritage accessible to all, including reading impaired users and blind persons. Learn about supporting equipment, electronic document accessibility, and structured documents. Discover the work of the Kath Univ Leuven research group on document architectures, involved in various European projects and international activities. Gain insights into catering to diverse user needs and web accessibility guidelines. Stay informed about upcoming PDF standards and initiatives for accessible PDF documents.

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Cultural Heritage: accessible for all? SEEDI 2006 - Sofia

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  1. Cultural Heritage: accessible for all?SEEDI 2006 - Sofia Jan EngelenResearch group on Document Architectures Kath. Univ. Leuven (Belgium)

  2. Overview • Introduction • “Normal” users • Reading impaired users • people with low vision, color blindness • blind persons • Available supporting equipment • Electronic document accessibility • Worldwide web • Structured documents (XML) • Other documents (PDF)

  3. Kath. Univ. LeuvenResearch group on document architectures • Specialised in XML document management • Transformations (Omnimark language, XSLT) • Structuring: Topic Maps, Ontologies • Wordnet based search techniques • Current application domains: • Electronic reading for special groups • Newspaper article management • Geographical data management (ontology based navigation) • Online para-medical file management

  4. Kath. Univ. LeuvenResearch group on document architectures • Involvement in 25 European Projects since 1991 including: • CAPS project choosing SGML as document format for electronic newspapers • Harmony project promoting HTML/XML as accessible formats-WAI • Omnipaper intelligent search techniques for news items • Walkonweb transborder, ontology based navigation techniques • BentoWeb, Support-EAM Web accessibility testing

  5. Kath. Univ. LeuvenResearch group on document architectures DocArch is involved in several international activities • EU Commission • eAccessibility expert group (DG INFSO eInclusion) • Evaluation and reviewing projects • COST actions • COST219ter • Standardisation • CEN Workshops DPA and WAC • DATSCG working group • EDeAN Standardisation SIG moderator

  6. The perfect computer user

  7. Reading impaired users • persons with low vision(weak sight, tunnel vision, ...) • blind persons • persons with a severe motor handicap so that they cannot handle standard printed books • dyslecticsBUT ALSO • car drivers, non-english or non-chinese speaking persons, non-native speakers...

  8. Types of low vision and colour blindness&adapted assistive equipment

  9. Normal vision

  10. Cataract

  11. Macula degeneration

  12. Retinitis pigmentosa

  13. Hemi- and quadrant anopsy

  14. Defective contrast

  15. Color blindness The individual with normal color vision will see a “5” revealed in the dot pattern. An individual with Red/Green (the most common) color blindness will see a “2” revealed in the dots.

  16. CCTV (TV camera)

  17. portable (electronic) magnifiers

  18. Compact CCTV’s

  19. Keyboard stickers

  20. Blind persons • cannot use enlarged writing anymore • rely on: • speech output • braille output: • on paper (braille embossers) • electronic (braille reading line)

  21. speech synthesis • Several companies on the European market • many languages available • since 1998: software-only solutions • quality is approaching human read texts • problems: • linear process • difficult to interrupt without loosing orientation • no details about writing of complex words unless spelling mode (slow!!!) is used

  22. Talking calculator

  23. note takers

  24. computer with braille display

  25. All-in-One Notes, PDA, mobile phone (also for SMS), reading line

  26. motor impaired persons • can often not handle books or even the keyboard • scanning systems are very popular among this group • In the past, mechanical page turners were envisaged.

  27. Web accessibility • Guidelines, endorsed by W3C, available since 1999:WCAG1.0 • problems: • not very clear • some aspects not machine testable • WCAG2.0 : ballot is ongoing • W3C Guidelines have been accepted in many European countries; however national variants have come up as W3C is not a formal standardisation body • European research on accessibility testing and certification is ongoing.

  28. W3C-WAI quick tips on a business-card

  29. Web accessibility guidelines: quick tips (Bulgarian)

  30. Upcoming PDF standards • PDF/E -- ISO/CD 24517-1Document management – Engineering document format using PDF – Part 1: Use of PDF 1.6 • PDF/X -- ISO 15930-8:2006(E)Graphic technology — Prepress digital data exchange using PDF — 7 Part 8: Partial exchange of printing data using PDF 1.6 (PDF/X-5) • PDF/AAbout tagging PDF documents for accessibility

  31. Accessible PDF from Microsoft? • Office 2007 applications will probably generate PDF directly • Beta-versions do not produce accessible PDF despite claims that PDF/A output is generated • Maybe there will be no PDF output at all...

  32. European standardisation organisations

  33. Specialised standardisation initiatives (EU) Discussion group on forthcoming standardisation work Consumer Requirements in Standardisation relating to the Information Society(2003 ANEC report)

  34. references • http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/how people with disabilities use the web • http://www.w3.org/WAI‘guidelines document’ • http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/bscw.cgi/d31178/Producing_webpages_that_everyone_can_access_1999.pdfCOST219bis “Producing Web Pages that Everyone can Access”

  35. Questions / comments? Jan Engelen jan.engelen@esat.kuleuven.beor 9@i.am Kath. Univ. Leuven - Department of Electrical Engineering Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 3001 Leuven - Belgium WWW: http://www.docarch.be/

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