Danya Gharbieh, Maximilian Punz, Klaus Miesenberger, Valentin Salinas Lopez,
"Flex Picture eBook Builder - Simplifying the Creation of Accessible eBooks"
, in Klaus Miesenberger, Petr Pe?áz, Makoto Kobayashi: Computers Helping People with Special Needs 19th International Conference, ICCHP 2024, Linz, Austria, July 8?12, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, Serie Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14750, Springer Cham, Linz, Seite(n) 63, 7-2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-62845-0
Original Titel:
Flex Picture eBook Builder - Simplifying the Creation of Accessible eBooks
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Computers Helping People with Special Needs 19th International Conference, ICCHP 2024, Linz, Austria, July 8?12, 2024, Proceedings, Part I
Original Kurzfassung:
This paper presents a novel approach of making content more accessible and usable by improving adaptability focussing on non-text content. The design and authoring concepts are supported by a software client for authoring and adapted reading. It is based on the requirements of users with disabilities, care providers and educators gathered in a UX/participatory and co-research approach facilitated in a EU-co-funded project aiming at a new level of adaptability in the content/publishing sector, in particular for illustrated children books: Flexi Picture eBook (FPB)
In this paper we present the approaches and functionalities of the authoring and reading software featuring new and innovative approaches for a) mainstreaming better accessibility both for readers with vision as well as learning disabilities in the publishing sector and b) support of authors related to content adaptation, in particular related to non-text content. The key research challenges addressed are at the level of a) conceptualising an efficient way of adapting non-text content to different layers of understanding during the authoring process and b) providing well usable functionalities for incorporating such adaptations into popular accessible digital reading formats such as EPUB3.
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