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Sensus. Access A new approach to support students and faculty who need alternate formats Lars Ballieu Christensen Tanja Stevns

Sensus. Access • Self-service alternate media solution • Sensus. Access – Produces MP 3 audio files – Produces structured audio books – Produces e-books – Produces digital Braille books – Converts inaccessible and tricky documents into more accessible formats • Supports multitude of languages

Sensus. Access Why Sensus. Access? Independence and self -sufficiency Inclusion in education and vocation • Availability • Privacy • Multiple formats • Continued support • Accessibility support in online education, MOOCs, …

Sensus. Access Users Sensus. Access • Users with special needs – Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, … • The Grey Area • Mainstream students – Poor language skills, different learning styles, foreign language skills, … • Others – Alternate media professionals, faculty, professionals, administrators

Sensus. Access What’s inside Text-to. Speech Text-to-Braille DAISY Pipeline E-book conversion Save. As. DAISY Spam MS Office Mail/Web access Mail/Web delivery. DOC, . DOCX. PPT, . PPTX MP 3 encoding. HTM, . HTML. XML. TXT, . ASC le Brail. RTF. PDF (all types). EPUB, . MOBI MP 3. TIF, GIF, . BMP, . JPEG. JPG, . J 2 K, . JP 2, . JPX English Spanish French. PCX, . DCX. DJV Greek Portuguese German Italian Icelandic Hungarian Cantonese Dutch Finnish Lithuanian Mandarin Norwegian Danish Russian Slovenian Taiwanese Bulgarian Polish Japanese OCR ocs d le b i s es Acc Y DAIS Tagged PDF Daisy Math E-bo Bra oks ille Swedish Romanian Inuit Korean Arabic art wo rk

Sensus. Access No urgency Urgent Timeframe Document complexity Simple Complex Sensus. Access Not Sensus. Access or only as tool Sensus. Access Not ideal but better than no conversion Estimate: Some 50 -60% of all document can be handled by Sensus. Access Source: Jayme Johnson, High Tech Center Training Unit, California Community Colleges

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Also an email service … Sensus. Access Audio american@ britspeech@ deutsch@ parlefrancais@ daisymath@ Braille banagrade 1@ banagrade 2@ sixdot@ kurzschrift@ E-books epub@ epub 3@ mobi@ Conversion convert@sensusaccess. com Available on most platforms Efficient for integration

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Sensus. Library Sensus. Access • Digital library for alternate media • Public and protected material • Operated in accordance with national copyright legislation • Integrated with library meta databases through Z 39. 50 • Tightly integrated with Sensus. Access • Try at www. sensuslibrary. com • In-house repository? • Shared repository?

Sensus. Access App for visually impaired • VI Reader • E-book reader for people with low vision and dyslexia • Available for i. Pad, i. Phone and Android • Free in Apple App. Store and Google Play

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Sensus. Access on your own site • Hosted solution • Flat annual subscription fee Size of academic institution Annual fee More than 20, 000 students US$ 5, 000 15, 000 – 19, 999 students US$ 4, 500 10, 000 – 14, 999 students US$ 3, 500 5, 000 – 9, 999 students US$ 2, 500 2, 000 – 4, 999 students US$ 1, 500 Less than 2, 000 students US$ 1, 000 • Prices based on standard conditions • Additional services – workshops, scanning and editing, digital library

Sensus. Access on your own site • Hosted solution • Flat annual subscription fee Size of academic institution Annual fee More than 20, 000 students GBP 3, 500 15, 000 – 19, 999 students GBP 3, 150 10, 000 – 14, 999 students GBP 2, 450 5, 000 – 9, 999 students GBP 1, 750 2, 000 – 4, 999 students GBP 1, 050 Less than 2, 000 students GBP 700 • Prices based on standard conditions • Additional services – workshops, scanning and editing, digital library

What we will provide • • Sensus. Access Customised web form Dashboard Daily and monthly usage reports Instructional videos Guidelines and best practices Dissemination material Training Access to Sensus. Access community

Sensus. Access Training Courses and Workshops • • • Sensus. Access overview (complementary) Sensus. Access intro workshop Creating accessible documents Creating e-books with Sensus. Access Creating structured audio books with Sensus. Access • Producing Braille with Sensus. Access • Producing math material with Sensus. Access

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Reference info Sensus. Access • www. sensusaccess. com • www. sensuslibrary. com • Readium (free) – E-book reader for Windows, Mac – Supports media overlay • Menestrello (free) – E-book reader for i. OS/Android – Support media overlay • VI Reader (free) – E-book reader for low vision, dyslexia – i. OS, Android

An award-winning service Sensus. Access 2012: WISE Award for Inclusion in Education (Qatar) 2010: BETT Award for best Special Education Needs solution (UK) 2009: Access IT Award for Learning for most affordable e. Learning solution (UK) 2009: National e. Well-Being Award for ”Reaching the Digitally Excluded” (UK) 2008: European Commission e. Inclusion Award for e. Accessibility (EU) 2008: Well-Tech Award for Innovation and Accessibility (Italy) 2007: British Computer Society's Social Contribution Award (UK)

Contact information Lars Ballieu Christensen • Mail: lars@sensus. dk • Phone: +45 40 32 68 23 Tanja Stevns • Mail: tanja@sensus. dk • Phone: +45 23 24 06 72 www. sensusaccess. com Sensus. Access

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