Schulbuch Barrierefrei Accessible School Books

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Schulbuch Barrierefrei (Accessible School Books)

• Cooperation between Publishers and Service
  Providers in Austria

Klaus Miesenberger, Reinhard Ruemer
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Situation in Austria

• New legal Situation
• Goverment bill on equal treatment of PWD
• New Chances
• Government provides for School Books
• Will in the Future only buy books to which also
  exists an accessible version

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The Project

• Cooperation between
• Service organisations for PWD
• Five austrian school book publisher

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What was reached

• Four books were produced in accessible versions
• Agreement between publishers and service provider
  was suggested to hand over the digital sources

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Future Work

• Training of publishers
• Accessibility from the scratch
• DRM vs. Accessibility