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Making information accessible for people with disabilitiesCost-effective solutions

Chair: Stephen King, President DAISY ConsortiumBoard member Accessible Book Consortium

Rapporteur: Martin Mwongela Kavua, Lecturer, Department of Hearing Impairment and Communication Difficulties (HICD),

Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Kenya

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Our 7 Presentations from 8 Panellists

• 1. Mr Martin Mwongela Kavua, Lecturer, Department of Hearing Impairment and Communication Difficulties (HICD), Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Kenya

• 2. Mr Dipendra Manocha, Mr Dipendra Manocha, Coordinator Developing countries – DAISY Consortium, President DAISY Forum of India & Member Executive Committee – World blind union

• 3. Ms Eve Andersson, Lead Accessibility Engineering, Google, USA • 4. Mr James Teh, Executive Director and Mr Gary Baxter, General Manager,

NV Access Limited, Australia • 5. Mr Richard Orme, International Council for the Education of Visually

Impaired People, ICEVI Technology Initiative Lead, UK • 6. Mr Ugo Falace, CEO, Centro Leonardo Education Srl, Italy• 7. Prof. Balakrishnan from the Assestech Lab of IIT Delhi.

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Making information accessible for people with disabilitiesWhat I am going to cover?

• Who are the DAISY consortium & our partners?• What is the challenge?• The 3 key issues for making information accessible

• Kit• Confidence• Content

• Introduce our Speakers on some cost effective solutions& Try and keep them to 8-9 minutes time

• Chair questions & discussion

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Who are our Session organisers?• DAISY Consortium www.DAISY.org

• Developing the best way to read & Publish

• World Blind Union www.worldblindunion.org• The Voice of 285 Million Blind & Partially sighted People

• Accessible Book Consortium www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org• Bringing Books to the Visually Impaired

• ICEVI (International Council for Education of people with Visual Impairment) www.icevi.org• Equal access to appropriate education for all children and youth

with visual impairment

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Our Principal Partner is the World Organisation of Blind People

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Partners in inclusive and special educationDelivering Millennium Development education goals & post 2015 agenda

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Partners Implementing the UNCRPDand Post 2015 development agenda• Partners focused on enabling access to information and learning

promised in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities & Development agenda

• WBU focuses on legal frameworks and advocacy• ICEVI focuses on Enabling inclusion in education and works with

DAISY on access to Curriculum• ABC Brings together Industry, Government & Consumers with

International & development Community• DAISY Consortium enables Technology companies publishers and

Service providers to co-operate

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What is the Challenge?

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Since Caxton people with print disability denied

access

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Print disabled readers & learners denied access to

curriculum

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Until now Libraries for the Blind have helped people in Developed WorldReading with eyes ears & fingers

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But libraries can’t keep up• Explosion of publishing worldwide • Only 5% of books available in accessible formats in best

performing countries: Less than 1% in many• Poor service: Making Giant print, Braille, Talking Books,

is slow & expensive and materials not shared• Curriculum materials difficult• People in Developing world lack any services & can’t

access International content

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People with disabilities left behind• In Developed world, many succeeding, but many

excluded due to barriers to access to information• Disabled people often left behind in Millennium

Development goal advances• Post 2015 Agenda will have focus on ensuring

people with disabilities included & not left behind• Enabling access to information is going to be key to

achieving post 2015 targets• Partners here to help you; Today, 2015 & beyond

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So what is print disability?(Numbers are uncertain)

• Blind & partially sighted people ~285 Million globally• Includes many older people with age related conditions• 1 in 7 people over 60 struggle to read ordinary print

www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/

• Dyslexic conditions• 1 in 5 US students have a language based learning

condition & dyslexia is the most common.• UK estimates 4% of population had dyslexic conditions and

up to 15% prone.• 20-30%+ of Prison population found to have Dyslexia

• Stroke, Aphasia and other physical problems

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Who are theDAISY Consortium(& our Partners)?

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DAISY is a Global not for profit consortiumNot for profit members, For profit Friends

Originally founded by Libraries for the Blind

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DAISY Consortium Vision

• People have equal access to information and knowledge, regardless of disabilities

Our Mission

• Working to create the best way to read and publish, for everybody, in the 21st centuryBy delivering global partnerships ... that build a more effective solution for everyone.

Committed to a common mission & vision. Coordinating resources to deliver global change

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Our goal is confident peoplereading what they want, when they want

with eyes, ears or fingersWherever they are in the world

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DAISY member support our vision of better inclusion of people with print disabilities

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Enabling Partnerships toDeliver Access to

Information

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What’s DAISY Approach to Inclusion?

• Transform Global publishing Industry to enable Inclusive Publishing: e-Books that anyone can read with eyes, ears or fingers• Enable Technology companies to build in assistive

Technology & Special Tech Companies to improve• Enable specialist enhanced access providers to

improve and share skills, technology & content• Ensure People get the Skills to benefit worldwide

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Our approach In Short• To access information people need 3 things:• Kit (Assistive & Adaptive personal Technology: Phone, Tablet etc)

• Mainstream and/or specialist interface that enables them to access using their preferred mix of eyes, ears & fingers

• Confidence (To use it)• Skills to use a different interface (and support of parents,

employers, supporters and IT services)• Content (That works with assistive Technologies)

• Well designed e-text which re-flows to different screens, works with screen readers and has descriptions for visual content.

• Without all 3 pieces projects and Inclusion will fail

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Lets hear from our Speakers

• 1. Mr Martin Mwongela Kavua, Lecturer, Department of Hearing Impairment and Communication Difficulties (HICD), Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Kenya

• 2. Mr Dipendra Manocha, Mr Dipendra Manocha, Coordinator Developing countries – DAISY Consortium, President DAISY Forum of India & Member Executive Committee – World blind union

• 3. Ms Eve Andersson, Lead Accessibility Engineering, Google, USA • 4. Mr James Teh, Executive Director and Mr Gary Baxter, General Manager,

NV Access Limited, Australia • 5. Mr Richard Orme, International Council for the Education of Visually

Impaired People, ICEVI Technology Initiative Lead, UK • 6. Mr Ugo Falace, CEO, Centro Leonardo Education Srl, Italy• 7. Prof. Balakrishnan from the Assestech Lab of IIT Delhi.

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Making information accessible for people with disabilitiesOur Speakers will talk about some practical cost effective solutions that provide elements of kit, confidence & content• 1.Dipendra Manocha Learning from development projects that bring together

Kit, Confidence and Content.• 2.Eve Andersson Inclusive design and accessibility features available on the

Google platforms & opportunities to participate• 3.James Teh,and Gary Baxter The crucial role of screen readers & NVDA, a

widely used free open Source screen reader for Microsoft Windows• 4. Martin Mwongela Kavua Projects in inclusive and special Education• 5. Richard Orme, “Visionary Learning through Technology” a network of

projects to enable inclusion in education• 6. Ugo Falace A new model of Inclusive publishing in Education• 7. Prof. Balakrishnan Developing low cost assistive technologies to enable

access

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THANK YOU! Chair: Stephen King, President DAISY Consortium

Board member Accessible Book ConsortiumPresident@DAISY.org

S.P.King@outlook.com