Alternate Formats 101 Tara Robertson, Heidi Nygard, Access and Diversity, Crane Library, UBC.

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Alternate Formats 101 Tara Robertson, Heidi Nygard, Access and Diversity, Crane Library, UBC

Challenge of alternate formats Dispersed between disability services, libraries, stand alone production facilities, provincial production centres No real national catalogue of all alternate format productions No agreement on the various formats (e-text) No standards on production

Definitions Alternate format Types of print disabilities/perceptual disabilities – Blindness – Visual impairment – Learning disability – Physical disability – Neurological disability – Other

Shared library values Access Sharing Value, reuse Customer service Protecting user rights

Canadian copyright act, Section 32 Not copyright infringement to make an alternate format for a person with a perceptual disability if it’s not commercially available Exceptions: cinematographic works Large print requires publisher permission

CAPER-BC Established in 1985 Funded to serve 20 post-secondary institutions 6 full time staff, 6-10 student workers 1168 students, 3553 requests 50% of materials are in trades

Crane Library Established in 1968 with donation of Charles Crane’s personal Braille collection [10,000 volumes] 3 Full time staff; 17 Student Production Assistants, 3 Student French Narrators, 70 Volunteer Narrators 80 clients between UBC-V/UBC-O, 446 requests.

Confused about which is the best format? Image from David Goehring on Flickr

Accessible PDF CAPER-BC Chop and scan and publisher files Omnipage for OCR Split into chapters Crane Library Publisher Files only ABBYY FineReader for OCR Split into chapters

E-text CAPER-BC.rtf,.doc Edited by a person Image descriptions, if needed Crane Library.rtf Edited by student assistants Tables and image description, if needed

mp3 CAPER-BC Synthetic voice Premium voices and TextAloud 1 file per page Crane Library Human voice (volunteers) Sound forge 1 file per page

Braille CAPER-BC Not funded to produce Crane Library Contract out to T-Base – exams and syllabi Lend/Borrow from Crane collection or PRCVI

DAISY CAPER-BC Human voice (professionals) For math, chemistry where there’s lots of formulas Crane Library Don’t produce

Large Print CAPER-BC Rarely produce, usually recommend PDF Print from PDF Crane Library Exams Online course content files [PDF]

Math CAPER-BC Human voice DAISY Will be coding MathML using MathType Crane Library Audio narration Experimenting with MathType for exams Braille [$18000]

Useful resources lists – Canaltform – DDSHE – Athen CSUN – for conference presentations Twitter #a11y #accessibility

Thank you! Tara Robertson Accessibility Librarian Heidi Nygard Alternate Format Collection Coordinator Crane Library, Access and Diversity, UBC