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The New Age of Producing, Distributing, and Consuming Accessible Information A paradigm shift

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Presumptions

• The commercial market adopts

EPUB 3 (including education and STEM)

• EPUB 3 is the best solution for

accessibility purposes

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Consuming Electronic Publications - Key Aspects

• Navigability (absolutely necessary for everybody, print

disabled or not)

• Rendering modalities (text, audio [human narration /

text-to-speech], image, video, [Braille output through Braille display])

• Perception channels (one modality can be

alternatively replaced / complemented by other modalities, synchronization of the rendering modalities)

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Current Model Separate Work Flows

• Publishing industry / print oriented /

mainstream formats / mainstream distribution channels

Products are not accessible

• Specialized agencies / multimedia oriented /

special formats / special distribution channels

Accessibility is added through ex post format conversion processes

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Future Model Integrated Work Flows

►The publishing industry brings

(electronic) publications to the market that are born accessible

►Where necessary, the industry is supported

by the accessibility experts before the product is delivered

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Required Changes

• Publishing industry –

From print oriented to multiple

• utput formats oriented work flows
• Specialized agencies –

From producers of accessible material to service providers for the publishing industry

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Who benefits?

• The publishing industry (considerably

enlarged market)

• Persons with Disabilities throughout

the world (several hundreds of millions)

• The States (implementing the UN Convention on

the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)

• The whole society (Inclusion)

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Conclusion in the Light of Converging Interests

INCLUSIVE PUBLISHING All stakeholders are invited to combine their efforts in order to implement a system that benefits EVERYBODY

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