1. 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, OLA Superconference

2. 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

3. CELA Overview

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. Accessible Technology Overview

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

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

13. Technology with Potential

14. Things you can do

15. 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

16. MS Office Accessibility Checker

17. 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

18. Accessible Reading

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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: 1/issuetoc

22. 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)

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