Book4All: A Tool to Make an e-Book More Accessible to Students with Vision/Visual-Impairments

Calabrò, Antonello; Contini, Elia; Leporini, Barbara

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_16

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“…In the case of the special needs students the challenge of learning literacy skills in an increasingly multimodal digital world has been demonstrated in studies such as those by Calabrò et al (2009) and Savidis, et al (2007). Among these emerging technologies are reading technologies such as CD-ROMs, electronic and interactive books.…”

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Serious Play, Serious Problems: Issues with eBook Applications

Baird

Henninger

2011

CCS Journal

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This paper is an investigation into the accessibility of emerging interactive, multi-touch narratives, which are designed and developed to be used on Apple’s iPad device. Universal access to technology culturally, physically, mentally and socially is vital to the ethical and moral sustainability of society. The importance of this is particularly vital to the development of a child’s development of basic literacy, numeracy and reading skills, as technology becomes a predominant mode in their lives. Narratives designed and developed for the iPad device offer a multimodal, interactive environment of text, image, sound, animation and touch; yet they render the accessibility tools and functions, embedded within the iPad for users with disabilities, useless. Whilst some narratives counter this in a variety of ways in their design, there are still major areas where the concept of “universal access for all” is neglected, leaving a significant portion of users in the dark.

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Serious Play, Serious Problems: Issues with eBook Applications

Baird

Henninger

2011

CCS Journal

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“…Our proposed solution aims at enriching the ePub format for satisfactory screen reader interaction, not affecting the visual layout at the same time. Through the Book4All tool [6] -adequately extended with a specific module -we handled three existing books to apply our proposed solutions. Herein we present the results collected through an online survey conducted to evaluate the accessibility of one of our enriched ePub books compared with its PDF original version.…”

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An Enriched ePub eBook for Screen Reader Users

Bartalesi

Leporini

2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Our study aims at obtaining ePub accessibility for all, including screen reader users. Since an ePub document is made up of several (X)HTML files, we analysed and worked with those (X)HTML tags that affect the blind user's experience in the reading. As a case study we developed an "enriched" ePub book which applies technical solutions (i.e. tags and attributes) with the purpose to overcome the accessibility and usability issues observed when interacting via screen reader. In this work we present the results collected through an online survey conducted with 25 users to evaluate the "enriched" ePub compared with the original PDF format in terms of accessibility and usability. Positive responses about the proposed solutions emerged from the survey: the easy access to the table of content, to the images, to the text and also the ease of navigation. In short, 88 % of the users preferred the ePub format instead of the PDF. This confirms that quite simple technical solutions can really improve the reading experience for not only visually impaired people. The results from the survey also showed accessibility issues and limitations of the screen readers and eBook reader software which still exist.

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“…Studies in [25,26] are rather unique as they propose to convert e-books or e-documents available in PDF into formats that are easily accessible by persons with visual impairments (i.e., Braille, audiotape, or large print format). Understandably, descriptions of figures and graphs must be added manually in a semiautomatic process [25].…”

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A Book Reader Design for Persons with Visual Impairment and Blindness

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Book4All: A Tool to Make an e-Book More Accessible to Students with Vision/Visual-Impairments

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Serious Play, Serious Problems: Issues with eBook Applications

Serious Play, Serious Problems: Issues with eBook Applications

An Enriched ePub eBook for Screen Reader Users

A Book Reader Design for Persons with Visual Impairment and Blindness

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