Auditory accessibility of metadata in books: a design for all approach

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Tsonos;Gerasimos Xydas;Georgios Kouroupetroglou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Athens, Departement of Informatics and Telecommunications, Athens, Greece;University of Athens, Departement of Informatics and Telecommunications, Athens, Greece;University of Athens, Departement of Informatics and Telecommunications, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

There are two issues that are challenging in the life-cycle of Digital Talking Books (DTB): the automatic labeling of text formatting meta-data in documents and the multimodal representation of the text formatting semantics. We propose an augmented design-for-all approach for both the production and the reading processes of DAISY compliant DTBs. This approach incorporates a methodology for the real-time extraction and the semantic labeling of text formatting meta-data. Furthermore, it includes a unified approach for the multimodal rendering of text formatting, structure and layout meta-data by utilizing a Document-to-Audio platform to render the acoustic modality.