Towards an Integrated Publishing Chain for Accessible Multimodal Documents

Multimodal Accessibility of Documents

“…Multimodal interaction with documents is considered the execution of the presentation and navigation tasks according to reader's preferences in one of three modalities, visual, acoustic and haptic or in any preferable combination. Guillon et al (2004) proposed an integrated publishing procedure for accessible multimodal documents based on DAISY 3.0 (DAISY, 2008). World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, 2008c) proposes guidelines for the multimodal interaction (W3C, 2008b).…”

<i>Daisy</i>: un libro digital abierto, multimodal y accesible

“…En cualquier caso ya ha sido demostrada su utilidad como formato de contenido, punto de partida de documentos html, pdf, mp3 y Braille (Guillon, 2004). Editoriales y bibliotecas deben tomarlo seriamente en consideración para sus planes futuros de edición o digitalización (Tank; Frederiksen, 2007).…”

Evaluation of touch screen vibration accessibility for blind users

“…Existing accessibility tools like screen readers, Braille terminals and talking browsers are increasingly helping persons suffering from visual incapacities to access and manipulate information, and perform various kinds of activities previously deemed unfeasible for the visually impaired. Yet, these techniques are effective when accessing text-based contents [1,2,5,10,27], but remain fairly limited when handling visual contents. Most studies, in this field [14,15,20,28,31] focus on low-vision users by providing visual aids and image enhancement techniques like applying image filters (image contrast manipulation [22], spatial filtering [19], adaptive thresholding [21], and compensation filters [6]) to adapt image quality to the user's visual deficiency.…”