1. Project title: Support and Inclusion of students with disabilities at higher education institutions in Montenegro. Work Package number 4 Work Package title: Production of accessible text books Barouti Marialena ekpmet129@uom.gr 28-08-2012

2. DIGITAL LIBRARY for persons with visual disabilities Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

3. CONTENT Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

4. MISSION To develop a full accessible digital library for individuals with visual impairments, initialy with a small number of text books that will be gradualy growing. Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

5. BOOK SELECTION Literature MISSION Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012 University notes handouts Textbooks

6. The books will be accessible from the Association of Visual Impairment Research (AVIR) web site. However, the created digital books will not be freely available to everyone. MISSION Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

7. ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL BOOKS AUDIO BOOK TYPES Analogue audio books Digital audio books Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

8. Analog audio books (tapes) Do not offer much of the functionalities that users with dissabilities require. Digital audio books Are an important advancement because users with visual impairement have the same functionality and full accessibility as sighted users have with printed books. ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL BOOKS Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

9. CONTENT PRINTED BOOK DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL BOOKS Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

10. CONTENT Text Graphics Images Photographs Scientific notation and formulas Etc. ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL BOOKS Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

11. Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012 Logical view Layout view Typography ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL BOOKS DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT

12. Train the Trainners STRATEGY Involvement of volunteers Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

13. Student Selection From the group of students that expressed their interest to participate in the project, a group of 10 students was selected STRATEGY Information of students attending related courses Students of two undergraduate courses were informed on the goal of the project. Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

14. SELECTION CRITERIA FOR VOLUNTEERS 1 Their level of commitment in order to meet the demands of the work assigned. Their suitability to undertake a task and if they are cooperative. Basic knowledge of computer use on text editing software (e.g. Microsoft Word). STRATEGY 2 3 Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

15. Step by step guides on the use of equipment and software were created in order to be given to the students Three scanners were placed in a quite computer room with adequate lighting and space in order to be used by the volunteers. Books were selected STRATEGY Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

16. Initially a number of the most popular book titles from Greek and International literature was selected, from the university library. Moreover special attention were given to the fonts used in the books. STRATEGY BOOK SELECTION Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

17. TRAINING OF VOLUNTEERS Instructions for using the OCR and Fine Reader Instructions for using the scanners and demonstrating the use in each volunteer STRATEGY Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012

18. THANK YOU Barouti Marialena 28-08-2012