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== Ideas & References == | |||
- Marrakesh treaty -> lead to EuroDIG one person of WIPO - question: So, after all the treaty is on track or not really? / alternatively someone from EDF (European Disabled Forum) | |||
- the special reading services of libraries - the case of Sweden (where the DAISY format borned in 1993 to solve the problem of preservation of audiobooks and braille books to visual impairment) | |||
- digital preservation: what format (PDF, ePub, HTML, …)? what support (Discs, CDs, USB pens, clouds inhouse or outhouse, …)? | |||
- what to preserve? Only text (gutenberg style) or also structure? In our days structure is an important element to accessibility. In a structural document, users can read information in non linear ways like read only headings, skip paragraphs, navigate through the cells of a data table, etc, etc. To accessibility reason we need not only preserve the elements (text, images, sounds, videos) but also the semantic of the elements. | |||
- copyright: the exceptions and limitations at national laws (according to WIPO only 60 of it’s members (around 190) have exceptions and limitations to copyright law in favor of copying to disabled people (mainly, only blind & partially sighted people) | |||
Target: is not only visual impaired. For many potential readers, printed resources can present a barrier. We use the term "print impairment" to describe people who experience a significant barrier when trying to access traditional texts. | |||
## References | |||
- Marrakesh Treaty: Work Still to be Done for Ratification, Implementation | |||
http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/stories/marrakesh_treaty.html | |||
- Accessible Books Consortium | |||
http://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/portal/en/index.html | |||
- Publisher Lookup website | |||
http://www.publisherlookup.org | |||
Revision as of 17:36, 23 April 2015
This is the discussion site of the session Access for all
Ideas & References
- Marrakesh treaty -> lead to EuroDIG one person of WIPO - question: So, after all the treaty is on track or not really? / alternatively someone from EDF (European Disabled Forum) - the special reading services of libraries - the case of Sweden (where the DAISY format borned in 1993 to solve the problem of preservation of audiobooks and braille books to visual impairment) - digital preservation: what format (PDF, ePub, HTML, …)? what support (Discs, CDs, USB pens, clouds inhouse or outhouse, …)? - what to preserve? Only text (gutenberg style) or also structure? In our days structure is an important element to accessibility. In a structural document, users can read information in non linear ways like read only headings, skip paragraphs, navigate through the cells of a data table, etc, etc. To accessibility reason we need not only preserve the elements (text, images, sounds, videos) but also the semantic of the elements. - copyright: the exceptions and limitations at national laws (according to WIPO only 60 of it’s members (around 190) have exceptions and limitations to copyright law in favor of copying to disabled people (mainly, only blind & partially sighted people) Target: is not only visual impaired. For many potential readers, printed resources can present a barrier. We use the term "print impairment" to describe people who experience a significant barrier when trying to access traditional texts.
- References
- Marrakesh Treaty: Work Still to be Done for Ratification, Implementation http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/stories/marrakesh_treaty.html - Accessible Books Consortium http://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/portal/en/index.html - Publisher Lookup website http://www.publisherlookup.org