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Conference Session 102
Accessibility: Hi Tech for Access
Library Services to People with Special Needs
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
19 August 2013 09:30 - 12:45 | Off-site
- Keynote: My computer is not dyslexic: reading, writing, and machine intelligence
MICHAEL SEADLE - Audio index Libraries are worth listening to! Audio-based library service combined with RFID reader and audio player
OSCAR STENBERG (Audioindex AB, Sweden) - Downloading talking books to e-book reader in Sweden
BITTE KRONKVIST (Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille) and HEIDI CARLSSON ASPLUND (Library in the Municipal of Lerum, Sweden) - Search and read books online with PLEXTALK through DAISY Online Delivery protocol / DAISY/digital talking book players and recorders of your choice, DAISY authoring tools for libraries and local communities
HIROAKI MIZUKAMI (Technology Products Business Unit, Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.; PLEXTALK, Japan) - Free production tools to create e-pub contents and inexpensive e-book readers
DIPENDRA MANOCHOA (Developing countries coordinator of DAISY Consortium) - Accessible multimedia contents in PC, tablet computers and mobile phones
HIROSHI KAWAMURA (Assistive Technology Development Organization, Japan) and MISAKO NOMURA (Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities)
Registration:
It is required to register in advance to attend this session
Contact:
E-mail for registration: nomura@dinf.ne.jp / hmo@ltk.dk
Location:
Central Public Library, National Library Board Singapore (10 minutes on foot from the conference centre)
Last update: 25 June 2013
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