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�SensusAccess�Alternate Media Made Easy

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Advisor, Ph.D., M.Sc.

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Tanja Stevns

Director, Special Education Teacher

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

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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

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SensusAccess Users

  • Users with disabilities
    • Blind, partially sighted, reading impaired, learning disorders, …
  • At-risk students
  • Mainstream students, faculty
    • Poor language skills, different learning styles, foreign language skills, …
  • Material production
    • Alternate media professionals, student workers, faculty, professionals, administrators, …

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SensusAccess at a glance

Email

Web

LTI

API

e.g., BEL

Well-known technologies

Audio, Braille, DAISY, e-books, OCR, translation, clean-up, remediation, AI/ML, office automation, …

Training services

Reporting services

Document formats

.DOC, .DOCX, .PPT, .PPTX, .HTM, .HTML, .XML, .TXT, .ASC, .RTF, .PDF (all types), .EPUB, .MOBI, .TEX, .TIF, .GIF, .BMP, .JPEG, .JPG, .J2K, .JP2, .JPX, .PCX, .DCX, .PNG, .DJV

Languages

All major and many smaller European languages, US English, LA Spanish, Arabic, Russian, several Asian languages and more

Automated Workflows

MP3, EBOOK, DAISY, BRAILLE, Remediation, Translation

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Document complexity

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Complex

Timeframe

No urgency

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Not ideal but better than

no conversion

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SensusAccess e-learning

https://www.sensusaccess.com/sensusaccess-e-learning

Introduction to the course

Introduction to SensusAccess

Producing simple

e-books

Converting inaccessible and tricky documents

Producing MP3 files

Producing DAISY talking books

Producing advanced

e-books

Designing and creating accessible documents

Producing Braille

Simple conversions

Advanced conversions

Special conversions

20 mins

20 mins each plus exercises

25 mins each plus exercises

25 mins each plus exercises

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Visit http://scribe.stanford.edu

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Gavin Henrick

Enhancing the building blocks of effective education

gavin@brickfield.ie

Brickfield Education Labs

www.brickfield.ie

@ghenrick

Skype: gavin.henrick

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Questions; comments

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Contact information

Lars Ballieu Christensen

  • Mail: lars@sensus.dk
  • Phone: +45 40 32 68 23

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Tanja Stevns

  • Mail: tanja@sensus.dk
  • Phone: +45 23 24 06 72

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www.sensusaccess.com

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