CELA and CNIB staff February 1, 2018 OLA Superconference Assistive Technology “Petting Zoo”: Reading Tools Used by Patrons with Print Disabilities CELA and CNIB staff February 1, 2018 OLA Superconference

Agenda for today Quick overview of CELA Quick overview of the accessible technology environment Quick pointers for helping with accessibility Accessible reading Introduction of staff and logistics of petting zoo

CELA Overview

CELA Primer Books in Accessible Formats to Canadians w Print disabilities thru public libraries Launched April 1, 2014 Fully Bilingual Funded by the Government of Ontario and others to serve over 96% of the Canadian population

Print Disabilities Prevents a person from using a standard text to read Visual: Blindness, AMD, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy Learning: Dyslexia, Autism, brain injuries Physical: Arthritis, MS, Parkinson’s, Spine injuries

Accessible Formats Books or other documents that can be read by people who cannot read ordinary print due to a disability, either on their own, or with appropriate assistive technology Large Print/Commercial Audio Braille DAISY Audio and Text ePub 3

CELA Collections 90K items in CELA core collection, mostly human- narrated audio and braille Additional 500,000 items from Bookshare (mostly text-based) 50 Newspapers and 150 popular magazines

CELA Services Support for Member Libraries Support for Users Collection Development Web site and delivery infrastructure Deposit Collections CNIB Role: production

CELA Usage 8 million since launch – half of that in Ontario CELA collection: still 75% of use is physical Technology is and will be catalyst for shift

Accessible Technology Overview

Assistive Technology Get Together with Technology Groups Canadian Council of the Blind Top Ten Apps 2017

Technology that’s accessible Get Together with Technology Groups Canadian Council of the Blind Top Ten Apps 2017

Technology with Potential

Things you can do

Simple Things We Can Do Think accessible! Understand patron limitations (extra time at library computers) Seek staff training opportunities (Lynda.com) Seek advice from the community Develop a local user group

MS Office Accessibility Checker

Wayfinding Technology Combination of Beacon and Apps Vancouver PL Central Library 9 beacons at decision-making points such as entrances, stairs and elevators Accessibility zones that provide orientation information. Allows for independent navigation

Accessible Reading

Accessible Reading focus has changed It used to be that the content had to be accessible Now: Certified Accessible Content Accessible Discovery and Delivery Certified Accessible Player Systems

1. Certified Accessible Content Readable with assistive technologies Text should fit all screen sizes Adjustable text font, color, font size and line spacing Navigable by chapter, section, page, sentence and more Options to skip footnotes, sidebars, producer notes, etc Work with different input methods e.g. keyboard, mouse Image captions and text descriptions for charts and graphs Videos should be captioned or accompanied by text transcript Readable on multiple platforms and devices Page numbers should match the print version of the same book

2. Accessible Discovery and Delivery Standard Library Apps, discovery layers and and web-based vendor tools cause difficulty for patrons with print disabilities. Recent study in the UK 40 platforms were tested Caveat: Academic libraries and databases, although many of the vendors are the same. 2 points provided for 27 accessibility features No platform scored higher than 70% and 2/3 were below 50% Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2018.31.issue- 1/issuetoc

3. Certified Accessible Player Systems What are your patrons using? Accessible reading apps (Voice Dream, Easy Reader) Braille Displays (Orbit) Dedicated DAISY players (lLinio, Stream, Stratus) Google Read and Write Screen Readers (JAWS) & Screen Magnifiers (Zoom text)

Room Layout Read & Write Zoomtext Braille & Jaws Apps Bookshare DAISY Player Station