SensusAccess LMS Easing the way to accessible formats for faculty and students

1. SensusAccess LMSEasing the way to accessible formats for faculty and students Lars Ballieu Christensen Advisor, Ph.D., M.Sc. Tanja Stevns Director, Special Education Teacher

2. SensusAccess • Self-service alternate media solution • SensusAccess • Produces MP3 audio files • Produces structured audio books • Produces e-books • Produces digital Braille books • Converts inaccessible and tricky documents into more accessible formats • Supports multitude of languages

3. Why SensusAccess? Independence and self-sufficiency Inclusion in education and vocation • Availability • Privacy • Multiple formats • Cost and platforms • Accessibility support in online education Long-term, inclusive, open

4. Different perspectives • SensusAccess • Independence, self-sufficiency, inclusion • Availability, privacy, formats, costs • SensusAccess Classic • Converts all documents irrespective of source • Available to everyone • SensusAccess LMS plug-in • Mainstreaming accessibility and alternate media • Easily available to students and faculty • Converts documents residing in LMS • Available to users with access to LMS

5. SensusAccess Users • Users with special needs • Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, … • At-risk students • Mainstream students, faculty • Poor language skills, different learning styles, foreign language skills, … • Others • Alternate media professionals, faculty, professionals, administrators

6. What’s inside Text-to-Braille E-book conversion Text-to-Speech OCR Spam MS Office DAISY Pipeline SaveAsDAISY Accessible docs Mail/Web access Mail/Web delivery .doc, .docx .ppt, .pptx .htm, .html .xml .txt, .asc .rtf .pdf (all types) .epub, .mobi .tif, .gif, .bmp, .jpeg .jpg, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx .pcx, .dcx, .PNG .djv MP3 encoding DAISY Braille Tagged PDF MP3 Daisy Math E-books English Spanish French Braille artwork Greek Portuguese German Norwegian Italian Dutch Danish Swedish Icelandic Romanian Finnish Bulgarian Russian Arabic Czech Hungarian Lithuanian Slovenian Polish Inuit Slovak Taiwanese Welsh Cantonese Korean Mandarin Japanese

10. SensusAccess e-learning Introduction to the course 20 mins Introduction to SensusAccess Simple conversions Advanced conversions Special conversions Designing and creating accessible documents Producing Braille Producing MP3 files Producing advanced e-books Converting inaccessible and tricky documents Producing DAISY talking books Producing simple e-books 25 mins each plus exercises 20 mins each plus exercises 25 mins each plus exercises http://www.sensusaccess.com/sensusaccess-e-learning

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12. Contact information Lars Ballieu Christensen • Mail: lars@sensus.dk • Phone: +45 40 32 68 23 Tanja Stevns • Mail: tanja@sensus.dk • Phone: +45 23 24 06 72 www.sensusaccess.com