Paper Info
Title
aScience: a thematic network on speech and tactile accessibility to scientific digital resources
Abstract
At present, digital scientific resources can be hardly read by visually impaired people. The systems to retrieve and download documents in digital libraries can be easily used also through speech and tactile assistive technologies. The main problems concern the digital formats employed to store documents. Therefore, visually impaired readers often find the right document, but they cannot read it. That often affects the learning process especially at university. In order to contribute to the preparation of guidelines to provide accessible digital scientific resources and to widespread best practices and best experiences achieved by university libraries and support services, the thematic network aScience was established. It is a two years project supported by the European Union eContentPlus Programme. The web portal www.ascience.eu delivers information about the thematic network activities and it will distribute sample documents of digital scientific literature accessible through speech and tactile assistive technologies.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
ECDL3
thematic network ascience,digital library,university library,tactile accessibility,digital scientific literature,tactile assistive technology,scientific digital resource,thematic network activity,best experience,digital format,accessible digital scientific resource,digital scientific resource,best practice
Field
DocType
Volume
Network on,Scientific literature,World Wide Web,Best practice,Computer science,Download,Thematic map,Digital library,Multimedia,Digital resources,European union
Conference
4675
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-74850-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian Bernareggi115519.98
Gian Carlo Dalto200.34