Joining it up and checking it out

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Joining it up and checking it out

• Embedding good practice and measuring progress

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JISC TechDis

• Supporting the education sector in achieving
  greater accessibility and inclusion by
  stimulating innovation and providing expert
  advice and guidance on disability and technology.
• Good practice for disabled users is good practice
  for all.

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Checklists or creative compromises?
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I googled it.
There may be a gap between what learners think
they know or do and what they actually know or do.
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The informal knowledge economy

• Attractions
• Portability
• Home. Work. College. Uni.
• Desktop. Laptop. Mobile.
• Manipulability
• Copy, paste, edit.
• Shareability
• Email. USB. Facebook.
• Variety
• Text. Images. Video. Audio.

• Risks
• Provenance
• Bias. Accuracy.
• Quality
• Depth. Breadth. Level
• Source
• Referencing. Licensing.

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Reclaiming libraries
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Guerrilla Libraries

• Promoting the cause
• Podcasts, videos, blogs and subject bookmarking
• Tracking and trails
• NLN materials,
• Audio/ Video collections
• E-text resources.
• Confidence and converts
• User confidence.
• Staff confidence.
• Kit confidence

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Promoting the cause

• Creating audio and video guides.
• Original library guide with two ironies
• Much more accessible library guide
• Instant(ish) human version audacity
• Instant(ish) synthetic speech version
  www.readthewords.com
• Subject specificity
• Delicious

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Tracking and trails

• NLN materials,
• Externally Q-Ad collections - Intute, SCRAN,
  BUBL
• Internally Q-Ad videojug, youtube, podcasts
  (Naked Scientist)
• E-text resources.
• Mobile resources - MoleShare

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Confidence and converts

• Staff confidence
• SimDis WatchWords AE1,2
• Getting hold of alternative formats
  www.publisherlookup.org.uk
• User confidence
• Personalising views of knowledge (AE1)
• Referencing plug in for FireFox.
• Aspire CD for dyslexic learners
• Free and Portable AT from ScottishRSCs /TechDis

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Further reading

• SCONUL publication Access for library users with
  disabilities http//www.sconul.ac.uk/publication
  s/pubs/access_disabilities.pdf
• See TechDis LRC section on main
  websitehttp//www.techdis.ac.uk/index.php?p6_8
• See TechDis advice on alternative formats
  www.techdis.ac.uk/getaltformat
• TechDis Accessibility Essentials
  serieswww.techdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials
• britspeech_at_robobraille.org Translates the
  attached document into synthetic speech using an
  British English Text-to-Speech engine.
• www.readthewords.com free web based text to
  speech service with downloadable mp3s.