Alternative Formats Provision Project

This project has now concluded and recommendations have been put forward.

Final Report and Presentation

Alternative Formats Final Project Report Access is open to users within the Dundee campus.
Alternative Formats Presentation

Training course and tutorials

The project team have created on online training and tutorial material. The guides demonstrate how to use the equipment to make alternative formats. Several Staff development course are also running throughout the year.

Information for students using the service

Information for staff working for the service

Project Introduction

The project will research and develop technology to enable the University to convert and produce material for print disabled people. The project will investigate the most efficient way to convert electronic and printed material into alternative formats such as :

Accessible electronic copies of material
Large and small print documents.
Synthetic voice audio files.
Daisy Books
Braille documentation of a non-critical nature.

Material can then be provided to print disabled people.

The project aims to

Define and setup relevant equipment and software.
Identify a set of core operators.
Develop training material and self-help user guides.
Evaluate the feasibility in terms of sustainability, cost effectiveness and practicalities of establishing an in-house service.

Who are Print Impaired Users ?

Print impaired refers to anyone who has a problem accessing printed paper. This includes Blind, Partially Sighted, people with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia and Physical Disabilities.

Equipment

Hardware

Personal Computer
Index Everest Braille Embosser
Optic Book Scanner
Fujitsu Duplexing Automatic Document Feeder Scanner

Software

Dolphin Easy Producer – MS Word to Daisy Format
Dolphin Publisher – Daisy Production
Duxbury – Text to Braille Conversion
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) – Scanned printed format to editable electronic text
PDF to Word Conversion
Daisy Book Player