1. E-text at Purdue 2: The Adventure Continues Dean Brusnighan, Assistive Technology Specialist David Schwarte, Assistive Technology Specialist Heidi Smart, Alternative Formats Coordinator

2. Outline  Background  What we needed in new e-text format  Why we selected DAISY  Production system goals/reality  DAISY reader software goals/reality  Student creation of e-text goals/reality 2

3. Background  Our current process provided Kurzweil and PDF output to end users, for roughly 15 years.  For following reasons, Purdue needed to change the process for creating e-text. Software changed its licensing and we anticipated failure of existing software We couldn’t continue the process we’d been using Software failure for one platform happened sooner than expected 3

4. Background 2  We’ve always provided a method for students to read e-text outside of a computer lab  Production and training are done by separate units on our campus 4

5. What We Needed In our new e-text format, we needed:  Variety of readers that work on a variety of platforms  Navigability  Able to support a variety of content types (literature, mathematics, multiple languages) 5

6. Why We Selected DAISY  Supporting DAISY already for Bookshare and Learning Ally  Supports a variety of content types (literature, mathematics, multiple languages)  Production and reading software available from multiple vendors 6

7. Transition Plan Production – 3 phases 1.Literary – plain text 2.Mathematics 3.Multiple languages Reader Purchase reader for student use Self-production Purchase student production software 7

8. Goals for Production System  Relative ease of use for production software  Desire for similar production time  Tech support for production software and methods 8

9. Production System Reality  Production software relatively easy to use  One production system for literary and another for languages and math  Similar production time not yet accomplished but making progress 9

10. Goals for DAISY Reader Software  Available on both Macintosh and Windows Computers  Licensing should cover on-campus and off- campus use  Support DAISy e-text containing mathematics and DAISy e-texts with multiple languages  Work with DAISy e-text produced on-campus and e-text provided by other services. 10

11. DAISY Reader Reality  Already licensed DAISy reader (Read&Write Gold) does not meet all criteria yet has certain advantages  A second one (ReadHear) has been licensed – it does everything except multi-language e-texts  Unable to find a DAISy reader that supports multi- language documents via synthesized speech  Production method changed to include recording synthesized speech 11

12. Multiple DAISY Readers  Read & Write Gold  ReadHear for Mac and PC  Screen readers  Reviewing options for tablets 12

13. Goals for Student Creation of E-text  Should be able to convert a wide variety of formats, including scans and other images  Should be relatively inexpensive  Should be relatively simple to use and does not need to have the number of options of the production software 13

14. Student Creation of E-text Reality  We have not discovered a single program that fulfills all of the needs  We will need to suggest different programs for different needs 14

15. What We Learned  Have a definite timeline and solid evaluation of production process  Students want accurate page numbers and titles  Yet student needs vary  Some don’t want audio  Some don’t want page numbers 15

16. More What We Learned  Student production training needs to be early in transition  Students require more training on DAISY  Support for tablets increasingly important  Difference between laptop and tablet? 16

17. Summary  Start early with planning a transition  Transitioning to a second production system more difficult than starting from scratch  Difficult to determine the needs of student users 17

18. Contact Us  Dean Brusnighan  dabrus@purdue.edu dabrus@purdue.edu  David Schwarte  schwarte@purdue.edu schwarte@purdue.edu  Heidi Smart  hsmart@purdue.edu hsmart@purdue.edu 18