Conference Session 148

e-Book technologies: global accessibility and information for all

Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section

Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.

16 August 2011 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Grand Salon A | SI

• Accessible digital publishing for libraries in the digital age: basic knowledge on DAISY4 and EPUB3
  HIROSHI KAWAMURA (DAISY Consortium, Tokyo, Japan)
• Adelantos en tecnologías de acceso y edición digital: fortalezas y desafíos desde la perspectiva del usuario
  ALPIDIO ROLÓN (National Federation of the Blind, Puerto Rico)
• Public libraries supporting the service needs of people with print disabilities: the Swedish model
  HEIDI CARLSSON-ASPLUND (Kultur i Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden) and BITTE KRONKVIST (The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Update on WBU campaign for WIPO Treaty on Copyright for the print disabled and associated initiatives to conquer the book famine
  CHRISTOPHER E.B. FRIEND (World Blind Union, Lewes, United Kingdom)
• Accessible publishing
  ALICIA WISE (Universal Access, Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Bookshare: making accessible materials available worldwide
  BETSY BEAUMON (Literacy Program, Benetech, Palo Alto, CA, USA)