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Multimedia Library Accessible to Blind People

Multimedia Library Accessible to Blind People. Institute of Informatics Silesian University of Technology Gliwice, Poland. Agenda. unlimited access to publications our library system conclusions. Current status. 1-3 % of printed publications available in accessible format

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Multimedia Library Accessible to Blind People

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  1. Multimedia LibraryAccessible to Blind People Institute of Informatics Silesian University of Technology Gliwice, Poland

  2. Agenda • unlimited access to publications • our library system • conclusions

  3. Current status • 1-3 % of printed publications available in accessible format • high preparation cost of Braille and talking books • low edition - hundreds to thousands copies • delay of several months

  4. Computers with assistive technology for visually impaired users • unlimited access to information • screen magnifiers • screen readers • talking applications • Optical Character Recognition

  5. Assistive software in Poland • ZoomText • Lunar • JAWS • WindowEyes • HAL • FineReader • OmniPage

  6. Online access to libraries • searching • browsing • ordering

  7. Accessibility => Success

  8. Library management systems in Poland • VTLS • WAIS • Horizon • Aleph • Prolib

  9. Accessibility issues • difficult navigation • graphical links without description • untitled frames • inconsistent labels for form elements

  10. Individual scanning of books • scanned books contain OCR errors • multiple scanning of the same book • it takes many hours

  11. Printed documents • created using computers • relatively easy to prepare in accessible format

  12. Accessibility of eBooks to disabled readers • printed and eBook versions of books published simultaneously • means: • dedicated eBook readers • software (personal computers, palm-sized PDAs)

  13. Digital Rights Management • used in software e-book reading systems • copy-protection prevents screen reader’s access • blind people cannot read eBooks

  14. Accessible eBook readers • Microsoft Reader • Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader • both use SAPI speech synthesizers

  15. Our library management system • Silesian University of Technology • Laski School for the Blind, Poland

  16. Multimedia publications in library • eBooks • eMagazines • digital talking books • audio files • movies

  17. Library server • Linux environment • PostgreSQL database • Apache web server • PHP scripting language

  18. Library user interface • accessible to visually impaired people • easy navigation • customizable • W3C WAI web content accessibility guidelines • tested with ZoomText, Jaws and WindowEyes

  19. Content of web pages • HTML • no Java • no JavaScript

  20. Groups of users • regular Internet users • registered readers • librarians • shippers • administrators

  21. Registered readers • searching in the catalog • browsing publications’ details • borrowing books • suggesting new publications • viewing a list of borrowed books

  22. Borrowing books • downloading as ZIP archive • browsing publications online • ordering publications on CD-ROM

  23. Languages • Polish • English • German • Russian

  24. Librarians • preparing new publications • management of readers’ accounts • verifying CD-ROM requests

  25. Multimedia workstation for preparing publications • scanner • OCR software • CD-RW/DVD recorder • software for creating multimedia publications • assistive software to verify the accessibility of publications

  26. Preparing accessible publications is difficult • various data formats • missing or inappropriate structural elements • time consuming • proposal of standard metadata format - OEBPS

  27. Transferring publication to server • as a ZIP file • using WWW form

  28. Shippers • burning CD-ROM images • sending packages by post

  29. Administrators • changing users’ privileges • editing lists of publishers and formats

  30. Installations in Poland • Laski School for the Blind - from June 2002 • planned: University of Warsaw • planned: Central Library for the Blind

  31. Development • efficient transmission of large multimedia files • new module to support preparing publications by volunteers • special tool to exchange new publications among libraries

  32. About the research project http://rose.ii.ps.edu.pl/library.html

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