Sensus Access LMS Easing the way to accessible
Sensus. Access LMS Easing the way to accessible formats for faculty and students Lars Ballieu Christensen Advisor, Ph. D. , M. Sc. Tanja Stevns Director, Special Education Teacher
Sensus. Access • Self-service alternate media solution • Sensus. Access 1. Produces MP 3 audio files 2. Produces structured audio books 3. Produces e-books 4. Produces digital Braille books 5. 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 • Cost and platforms • Accessibility support in online education Long-term, inclusive, open
Different perspectives Sensus. Access • Sensus. Access – Independence, self-sufficiency, inclusion – Availability, privacy, formats, costs • Sensus. Access Classic – Converts all documents irrespective of source – Available to everyone • Sensus. Access LMS plug-in – Mainstreaming accessibility and alternate media – Easily available to students and faculty – Converts documents residing in LMS – Available to users with access to LMS
Sensus. Access Users Sensus. Access • Users with special needs – Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, … • At-risk students • Mainstream students, faculty – 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 Spam MS Office Save. As. DAISY 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 English Spanish French. JPG, . J 2 K, . JP 2, . JPX. PCX, . DCX, . PNG Greek Portuguese German. DJV Italian Icelandic Hungarian Cantonese Dutch Finnish Lithuanian Mandarin Danish Russian Slovenian Taiwanese Norwegian Japanese s oc d e ibl s s e Acc Y DAIS Tagged PDF Daisy Math Inuit Korean E-bo oks Bra ille Swedish Bulgarian Polish OCR art w Romanian Arabic Czech Welsh Slovak ork
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Sensus. Access e-learning Introduction to the course 20 mins Introduction to Sensus. Access Simple conversions Advanced conversions Special conversions Producing MP 3 files Designing and creating accessible documents Producing Braille Converting inaccessible and tricky documents Producing advanced e-books Producing simple e-books Producing DAISY talking books 20 mins each plus exercises 25 mins each plus exercises http: //www. sensusaccess. com/sensusaccess-e-learning 25 mins each plus exercises
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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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