Giulia Bussotti's Presentation for Design for All - Culture and Accessibility. Città della Scienza 3/12/2015

1. Digital Accessibility & eBook
Ideas for Accessible and Innovative Reading

2. What is Web Accessibility?
“Web accessibility means that people with
disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate
and interact with the Web, and that they can
contribute to the Web…”
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

3. Dispelling Some Myths
• Blind people read
o VIPs (Visual Impared People) in Italy read on
average 9.2 books a year, compared with other
people who read only 2 books a year.
• 30% of VIPs know the braille language
o So How read everyone else? They listen to the
text.

4. Features of a Digital Text:
• Multimodality
• Machine readable
Real revolution in reading
habits and autonomy for
disable people

5. Assistive Technologies
Since there are computers, there are disabled
people who use computers

6. Tablets and Smartphones
Within our devices it is a synthetic speech that
allows blind people to navigate the tool and all
applications.

7. Working on Content Accessibility
Publishers
eBooks
Web developer
Web pages

8. Format for eBook
Standard = open, interoperability, compatibility,
research, innovation, network

9. Specification for Accessibile eBook
• Semantic structure of content
• Table of content
• Alternative text for graphic elements
• Font, style and color
• Navigable table
• Language of the speech
• Soft DRM

10. Case History: The LIA Project

11. LIA solutions
The theme of accessibility enters in publishing
production processes as integrating element, no
longer as a feature to add ex post.
• Verification, Check and Certification
• LIA compliant interactive label
• LIA platform: www.libriitalianiaccessibili.it

12. Unresolved Issues and Big Challange
in Accessible Publishing
• The big player in digital publishing market
• Adobe DRM (Digital Right Management)
could save the copyright?
• Educational is the real challange!

13. giulia_bussotti@yahoo.it
@giuliabuss