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1 SensusAccess LMS Easing the way to accessible formats for faculty and students
Lars Ballieu Christensen Advisor, Ph.D., M.Sc. Tanja Stevns Director, Special Education Teacher

2 SensusAccess Self-service alternate media solution SensusAccess
Produces MP3 audio files Produces structured audio books Produces e-books Produces digital Braille books Converts inaccessible and tricky documents into more accessible formats Supports multitude of languages

3 Why SensusAccess? Independence and self-sufficiency
Inclusion in education and vocation Availability Privacy Multiple formats Cost and platforms Accessibility support in online education Long-term, inclusive, open

4 Different perspectives
SensusAccess Independence, self-sufficiency, inclusion Availability, privacy, formats, costs SensusAccess Classic Converts all documents irrespective of source Available to everyone SensusAccess LMS plug-in Mainstreaming accessibility and alternate media Easily available to students and faculty Converts documents residing in LMS Available to users with access to LMS

5 SensusAccess Users Users with special needs At-risk students
Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, … At-risk students Mainstream students, faculty Poor language skills, different learning styles, foreign language skills, … Others Alternate media professionals, faculty, professionals, administrators

6 What’s inside Accessible docs .doc, .docx .ppt, .pptx .htm, .html .xml
Text-to-Speech Text-to-Braille E-book conversion OCR DAISY Pipeline SaveAsDAISY MS Office Spam Accessible docs .doc, .docx .ppt, .pptx .htm, .html .xml .txt, .asc .rtf .pdf (all types) .epub, .mobi .tif, .gif, .bmp, .jpeg .jpg, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx .pcx, .dcx, .PNG .djv Mail/Web access Mail/Web delivery MP3 encoding DAISY Braille Tagged PDF MP3 Daisy Math E-books English Spanish French Portuguese German Greek Braille artwork Italian Dutch Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic Finnish Russian Bulgarian Romanian Hungarian Lithuanian Slovenian Polish Inuit Arabic Czech Cantonese Mandarin Taiwanese Japanese Korean Welsh Slovak

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10 SensusAccess e-learning
20 mins 20 mins each plus exercises 25 mins each plus exercises Introduction to the course Introduction to SensusAccess Simple conversions Advanced conversions Special conversions Producing MP3 files Designing and creating accessible documents Producing Braille Converting inaccessible and tricky documents Producing advanced e-books Producing simple e-books Producing DAISY talking books

11 Questions; comments ?!

12 Contact information Lars Ballieu Christensen Mail: Phone: Tanja Stevns Mail: Phone:


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