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• Towards Generating Web-Accessible STEM Documents from PDF

  Volker Sorge, Mark Lee, Sandy Wilkinson · 2020 · Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a fully automated, web-based pipeline for converting PDF documents into accessible HTML and ePub formats, with a particular focus on STEM content containing mathematical formulas and tables. The authors address a fundamental problem in document accessibility:…

  document accessibility · PDF conversion · STEM accessibility · mathematical formulas · automated remediation

• Personalization in the Interactive EPUB 3 Reading Experience: Accessibility Issues for Screen Reader Users

  Barbara Leporini, Clara Meattini · 2019 · Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper investigates the accessibility of interactive EPUB 3 digital books when accessed via screen readers. The authors designed and developed a multimedia, interactive EPUB 3 prototype — a digital guide to Sienese cuisine featuring 8 recipe chapters and 8 walking itinerary…

  EPUB · accessible publishing · screen reader · digital books · personalization

• Making Legacy Digital Content Accessible at Source

  Sankalan Pal Chowdhary, Dipendra Manocha, M. Balakrishnan, Akashdeep Bansal, Himanshu Garg · 2019 · Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This demonstration paper presents a toolset for converting legacy-encoded Devanagari text to Unicode within Adobe InDesign, addressing a significant accessibility barrier for Indian language content. Despite Unicode being published in 1991, vast amounts of digitally created…

  Unicode · legacy encoding · accessible publishing · Devanagari · India

• ChattyBooks and ChattyBook Service

  Masakazu Suzuki, Katsuhito Yamaguchi · 2017 · Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This demonstration paper presents ChattyBooks, a Windows application that converts STEM content in DAISY/accessible EPUB3 format into audio-embedded HTML5 with JavaScript, enabling playback in any web browser on any platform without requiring specialized DAISY/EPUB3 players. The…

  STEM accessibility · DAISY · EPUB · MathML · mathematics accessibility

• W4A Camp Report 2014 Edition

  Giorgio Brajnik · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This report summarizes the discussions from the 2014 W4A Camp, an unconference session held at the end of the W4A conference where accessibility researchers informally debated topics they considered important for the field. Chaired by Giorgio Brajnik, the session involved 17…

  web accessibility · accessibility definitions · older adults · emotional barriers · EPUB

• IDEAL: A Dyslexic-Friendly eBook Reader

  Gaurang Kanvinde, Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates · 2012 · Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents the IDEAL eBook Reader, an Android application that displays ePub-formatted ebooks with a text layout specifically adapted for readers with dyslexia. The design is grounded in empirical research: layout guidelines were derived from experiments…

  dyslexia · readability · ebook · ePub · text-to-speech

• Transforming Japanese Archives into Accessible Digital Books

  Tatsuya Ishihara, Toshinari Itoko, Daisuke Sato, Asaf Tzadok, Hironobu Takagi · 2012 · JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  This JCDL 2012 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and Haifa tackles a problem that remained invisible in most English-focused digitisation work: producing fully accessible digital books from Japanese archives, where the writing system uses more than 10,000 characters (kanji plus…

  accessible ebooks · digitization · japanese · OCR · DAISY

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