1. SensusAccess LMS Easing the way to accessible formats for faculty and students
Lars Ballieu Christensen
Advisor, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Tanja Stevns
Director, Special Education Teacher

2. SensusAccess Self-service alternate media solution SensusAccess
Produces MP3 audio files
Produces structured audio books
Produces e-books
Produces digital Braille books
Converts inaccessible and tricky documents into more accessible formats
Supports multitude of languages

3. Why SensusAccess? Independence and self-sufficiency
Inclusion in education and vocation
Availability
Privacy
Multiple formats
Cost and platforms
Accessibility support in online education
Long-term, inclusive, open

4. Different perspectives
SensusAccess
Independence, self-sufficiency, inclusion
Availability, privacy, formats, costs
SensusAccess Classic
Converts all documents irrespective of source
Available to everyone
SensusAccess LMS plug-in
Mainstreaming accessibility and alternate media
Easily available to students and faculty
Converts documents residing in LMS
Available to users with access to LMS

5. SensusAccess Users Users with special needs At-risk students
Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, …
At-risk students
Mainstream students, faculty
Poor language skills, different learning styles, foreign language skills, …
Others
Alternate media professionals, faculty, professionals, administrators

6. What’s inside Accessible docs .doc, .docx .ppt, .pptx .htm, .html .xml
Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Braille
E-book conversion
OCR
DAISY Pipeline
SaveAsDAISY
MS Office
Spam
Accessible docs
.doc, .docx
.ppt, .pptx
.htm, .html
.xml
.txt, .asc
.rtf
.pdf (all types)
.epub, .mobi
.tif, .gif, .bmp, .jpeg
.jpg, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx
.pcx, .dcx, .PNG
.djv
Mail/Web access
Mail/Web delivery
MP3 encoding
DAISY
Braille
Tagged PDF
MP3
Daisy Math
E-books
English
Spanish
French
Portuguese
German
Greek
Braille artwork
Italian
Dutch
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Finnish
Russian
Bulgarian
Romanian
Hungarian
Lithuanian
Slovenian
Polish
Inuit
Arabic
Czech
Cantonese
Mandarin
Taiwanese
Japanese
Korean
Welsh
Slovak

10. SensusAccess e-learning
20 mins
20 mins each plus exercises
25 mins each plus exercises
Introduction to the course
Introduction to SensusAccess
Simple conversions
Advanced conversions
Special conversions
Producing MP3 files
Designing and creating accessible documents
Producing Braille
Converting inaccessible and tricky documents
Producing advanced
e-books
Producing simple
e-books
Producing DAISY talking books

11. Questions; comments ?!

12. Contact information
Lars Ballieu Christensen
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Tanja Stevns
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