Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish Inclusive Publishing The Key to Accessible Digital Books 15 August 2013, Cape Town, South Africa Legal Affairs Committee Meeting, Publishers Association of South Africa Prashant Ranjan Verma Consultant – DAISY Consortium www.daisy.org
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Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Inclusive Publishing
The Key to Accessible Digital Books15 August 2013, Cape Town, South Africa
Legal Affairs Committee Meeting, Publishers Association of South Africa
The consequencesDisabled people get• A fraction of the mainstream• Delivered late• Inefficient for everybody• Additional costs• Duplication of effort
Frustration all around!
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No one gains !• Publishers lose out on potential customers • Non-profits spend their valuable resources
on re-publishing instead of creating new services & products
• Persons with special needs get little reading material, with delays and at extra cost
• The charity money used for re-publishing could be used to buy accessible books if they existed
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Current situation• Re-publishers are fighting a losing battle. With
their meager resources they can only convert a small percentage of the publications into accessible formats
• Books that were created inaccessible cannot be transformed overnight
• Conversion processes can be complicated and time consuming
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People with disabilities say they want:
• To easily find publications I can read• Far better availability of Braille & talking
books• More publications with accessibility built in • A great reading experience with eyes, ears or
fingers
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What do authors and publishers want?
• To reach a wider audience, regardless of disability
• To create publications that benefit everyone • To comply with inclusion legislation
(especially employers and in education)• Avoid huge costs on integrating access for the
disabled
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What do Governments want?
• Access to information and education as required by the UN convention on the rights of people with disabilities (UNCRPD)
• Inclusive Laws & partnerships that deliver:– Inclusive Society – Inclusive Education
• Effective use of our funds
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Everybody wants
Inclusive Publishing.
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So how do we deliver
Inclusive Publishing?
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eBook - an opportunity• Exciting development for print-disabled and
blind readers • Their properties make them ideal for finding
alternative forms of access• When an e-book is presented in an accessible
format on an accessible e-book reader, the user can choose to read the book using text-to-speech, Braille, or magnification
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eBook - an opportunity….
• Publishers are re-designing workflows to produce print and e-books together
THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME• To adopt a workflow which takes care of
accessibility requirements
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Accessible e-books in an open market benefit everyone
• Publishers gain access to an otherwise untapped revenue stream, those who cannot access traditional print materials
• The general public gains access to books that are even more flexible and feature-rich
• Blind and other print-disabled users, for the first time in history, gain access to the same books and publications at the same price and at the same time as the rest of society
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How do we grasp this opportunity?
• We must build in inclusiveness (not retro-fit)• Built-in inclusive publishing will cost far less,
overall, to everybody• Must adopt open and interoperable standards • Adopt best practices
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Where to start?• Accessible Publishing - Best Practice Guidelines
for Publishers (http://www.editeur.org/109/Enabling-Technologies-Framework-Guidelines/)
• Make the Inclusive Publishing a top priority at the senior management level of the company [appoint a person responsible for accessibility concerns]
• Build up partnerships with agencies specialized in providing accessible material (libraries for the blind, service centres for disabled students etc.)
EPUB 3 has Accessibility featuresOpen standard (IDPF) with support for video, interactivity
– navigability– read aloud feature (“Media Overlays”)– reflowable – global language support – text-to-speech support– MathML support (scientific content)– scalable vector graphics (SVG) – online / offline reading – rich metadata management
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EPUB 3 works everywhere
• Computer • Mobile phones• Tablets
• Numerous apps for different platforms • Add-ins for browser
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Retailer adoption of EPUB 3
• Apple• Kobo• Barnes & Noble• Sony• Google
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Association of American Publishers recommends EPUB 3
• Format for global distribution of e-books • The goal is to rapidly advance the adoption of EPUB 3 by
publishers and retailers over the next six months and have publishers release a large number of titles to the marketplace that use the standard in the first quarter of 2014
• “retailers, digital content distributors, device makers, reading systems providers, assistive technology experts and standards organizations” are involved
What would inclusive publishing look like?
How we publish How we read
Mainstream Distribution
MainstreamPublication(Authors & Publishers)
People (With or without
Disabilities)
PublishingTechnology
Industry
Publishing standardsand laws
• ONE version of a book, that anyone can read, the way they want...and it is a better read for all.
• Dramatically increasing the number and timeliness of publications, usable by people with disabilities.
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Will there be no need of alternate formats?
• Access-enhanced books would still be required for certain content and users with special needs• These would be a separate version of a mainstream
publication, modified to be read by disabled persons using their eyes, ears or fingers to read. • This may include:
• Re-design for Braille, adding additional description, speech narration.
• Often, distributed separately via a special library.DAISY will continue to be the preferred format for such
use cases
Example of Inclusive Publishing www.unicef.org/sowc2013
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What is DAISY?• Open standard for structured, accessible digital books
DAISY 2.02 most widely adopted, DAISY 3 (formally DAISY/NISO Z39.86 2005), DAISY features built into EPUB 3
• Synchronized text, audio and image files
• Portable - well received internationally
• Navigable and feature-rich
• 3 types of DAISY books: audio and full text,audio with navigation and text-only
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The DAISY Consortium
Our Vision• People have equal access to information and
knowledge, regardless of disabilitiesOur Mission• Working to create the best way to read and
publish, for everybody, in the 21st centuryBy delivering global partnerships ... that build a more effective solution for everyone
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IDPF • The global trade and standards association for
electronic publishing.
• The IDPF develops and maintains the EPUB® standard format for reflowable digital books and other digital publications that are interoperable between disparate reading devices and applications.
• The IDPF also provides a forum that fosters enhanced communication between all stakeholders in the emerging global digital publishing industry
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Partners in change • The DAISY Consortium will continue to be committed
to collaboration with the IDPF in the development and evolution of digital publishing standards
• The DC & IDPF are also sharing key resources: Markus Gylling is the CTO of both organizations
• DAISY Consortium has endorsed EPUB 3 as the preferred standard for eBooks
• DAISY Consortium has developed open source and free tools for conversion to DAISY & EPUB 3
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THE PATH TO INCLUSIVE PUBLISHING• Focus on EPUB 3
• Assume Social Responsibility - Make Accessibility a top Priority (in your company)
• Think of Image Descriptions (non-textual elements)
• Develop Partnerships (with organizations that can make your eBooks more accessible / access-enhancements)
• Add Accessibility Meta Data (to your products)The ONIX Standard List 196 E-publication Accessibility Details http://www.editeur.org/files/ONIX%20for%20books%20-%20code%20lists/ONIX_BookProduct_CodeLists_Issue_19.html
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Things to remember • Everything digital is not accessible
• There is no need to sacrifice look & feel of the book to make it accessible
• Accessibility is the result of semantic markup, good coding practices and adherence to standards
• All EPUB 3 files are not accessible unless accessibility guidelines are followed
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User story A new customer
• An avid reader• Waited for Braille or
audio editions of best sellers for most of his life
• Now purchases eBooks on Apple & Google the day it is published
• Reads books on iPhone or Braille display Blind, age 40