ACCESSIBLE BOOKS – AN (OTHER) WAY OF READING? (original) (raw)

ATIID 2005 - II Seminário Intl "Acessibilidade, TI e Inclusão Digital", 2005

Abstract

"People with print disabilities (that are blind, with low vision, or have dexterity or cognitive disabilities) have been disenfranchised from the mainstream of learning and employment, because of a lack of access to information. Braille and Talking Books are targeted to assisting people with print disabilities, but these efforts are a constant battle to keep up with the growing number of print books published each year, the costs for publishing and for keeping Braille documents. With the emergence of electronic books for the general population, persons with (certain) disabilities may access a new age of electronic content. Since 1997 joint international efforts launched the DAISY Consortium that in working through the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), have developed further standards for Digital Talking Books (DTB). The reason for choosing the Daisy Consortium for discussing accessible books is that since 1996 it has been considered an international standard for the creation and exchange of digital content. This standard presents specifications for digital talking books (DTBs) for blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped, learning-disabled, or otherwise print-disabled readers. For many years, "talking books" have been made available to print-disabled readers on analog media such as phonograph records and audiocassettes. These media serve their users well in providing human-speech recordings of a wide array of print material in increasingly robust and cost-effective formats. However, analog media are limited in several respects when compared to a print book. First, they are by their nature linear presentations, which leave much to be desired when reading reference works, textbooks, magazines, and other materials that are often accessed randomly. In contrast, digital media offer readers the ability to move around in a book or magazine as freely as (and more efficiently than) a sighted reader flips through a print book." [CITAÇÃO]

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