Project number: 224348 Project acronym: AEGIS Project title: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards Starting date: 1 September 2008 Duration: 48 Months AEGIS is an Integrated Project (IP) within the ICT programme of FP7

1. A Customized Digital Library
For Students With Impairments
in Written Communication
Dirk Lembrechts, Jan Rottier

2. Digital Library
Adapted Digital Text Books (ADIBIB)
Elementary and secondary level
For text-to-speech software
Students with severe reading - writing disorders
Conversion to software independent tagged PDFfiles
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3. Past three years:
• From 15 tot 900 books
• From 250 to 1500 users
• In 2010-2011 10.000 books ordered
• Only two formats : most commonly used
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4. jun
1600 mei
1400 apr
maa
1200
feb
1000
jan
800 dec
600 nov
okt
400
sept
200
aug
0 juli
2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011
1 july 2008 - 30 june 2009: 248
1 july 2009 - 30 june 2010: 1 240
1 july 2010 - 31 may 2011: 1 401
25% of users are secondary education students
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5. Unique
- Partnership (see next slide)
- Managed by a ‘trusted third party’
- Tool
- Broad target audience
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6. www.adibib.be
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7. Publishers
• The six biggest (education)
• And their union
Software vendors
• The two biggest
• Quality of software is determining for quality of digital books
Organisation of audio books
• Extensive experience and capacity
Ministery of Education
• Structural financial support since September 2011
WIN-WIN
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8. Traget audience
Only attested
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Visual disability
- Physical disability
- Special education
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9. New Tool
 Software independent
 Automatisation
 Reducing of time : factor 5 to 10
(approximately 1 to 5 hours for one book)
 Output: tagged PDF format
After automatic conversion: visual inspection
and correction
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10. Conversion Conversion
book pages time time
Sprint Kurzweil
Bonjour les enfants 112 5:00 21 :45
2+handboek
Eventail junior bien sur 5 112 6:00 12:00
handboek
Concorde 1 TSO 169 2:00 7:30
werkboek
FrancoFan 1werkboek 87 1:45 8:35
En scéne 1T - 576 19:45 70:30
Leerwerkboek
Markant 2 – 448 8:40 28:20
leerwerkboek(Nederl)
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11. Conversion software
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12. Tool for final visual inspection/correction
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13. - Sensitive
- Maximum security and minimum inconvenience
- Watermarked digital files (name student, school,
date)
- Every user of digital books has a paper version
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14. Book
available Yes Ordering Burning
Shipping
on Free on cd
(Only
website? shipping)
No
Request
to ADIBib Publisher Automatic
PDF to Book on
and
ADIBib to ADIBIB website
manual
publisher
conversion
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15. - In 2012: more automation at all levels
- In 2012: digital download
- Low threshold
- User driven
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16. Broader goal group
Every education level (also higher education,
adult education, second change eductione, …)
Collaboration with more publishers, software
companies, …
More then 1000 new titels a year
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