Overview

Welcome to the Training and Resource Centre for the European Accessible Information Network (EUAIN). If you are interested in joining EUAIN please contact us directly for more information.

On these pages you will find a wide variety of materials relating to the processing of Accessible Information.

The material in this wiki is divided into several sections in order that different stakeholders who are involved in Accessible Information Processing can find specific and appropriate information.

This Training and Resource Centre has the following sections which can be accessed via the navigation bar on the left hand side of this page:

• Glossary: initial reference point

• Processes: creating and producing accessible content

• Distribution: protecting and distributing accessible content

• Standards: relevant standards

• Guidelines: detailed guides for accessible information processing

• Case Studies: real-life examples

• Software: available open source and commercial software

• Emerging Issues: areas for ongoing collaboration and activity

This section contains an overview of the different production processes and is subdivided into three sections, namely;

• Actors
• Conversions
• Formats

Once accessible content has been created and produced, it must be delivered to different communities and markets with varying degrees of protection.

There are many different ways in which people can protect and distribute their digital content.

• Protecting Content This section provides a detailed overview of the situation regarding accessible content protection across several countries.
• Distributing Content This section provides a detailed overview of the situation regarding accessible content distribution across several countries.

This section contains information about relevant standards and organisations. Structured information is the first big step towards high-quality accessible information. A document whose internal structure can be defined and its elements isolated and classified, without losing sight of the overall structure of the document, is a document that can be navigated. This section looks at:

• Overview
• Why standards are important
• Relevant standards
• Related organisations

EUAIN is not the first project to tackle the issues of Accessible Information Processing and there are several sets of Guidelines and Best Practice already in existence. However, until now these have not been brought together in a systematic manner. This section contains a library of guidelines which are intended to provide detailed explanations for different aspects of accessible information processing.

• Guidelines for accessible information processing
• Best Practice for accessible information processing

These guidelines and best practices are also cross-referenced from the Processes section where appropriate.

This section contains:

• Case studies
• Possible scenarios

These case studies and scenarios are intended to illustrate how the different considerations and processes operate in real-life environments. Most of these case studies involve collaboration between content providers and specialist organisations, but some provide examples of integrated publishing processes which incorporate accessibility from scratch.

In order better to illustrate some of the ideas described above, an online Demonstrator has been constructed. This demonstrator has been set up by BrailleNet, the French member of the EUAIN network. Our goal is to illustrate the ideas behind the EUAIN network and especially to demonstrate the practical benefits of well-structured documents. You can upload an Open Document Format file and choose the accessible output format you prefer.

This section contains information about software and technologies and includes:

• Professional packages
• Content management systems
• Open source tools
• Conversion tools

This section contains information about some of the emerging issues and ongoing activities and currently includes:

• Access to information
• Single file format
• Towards a global library
• Making metadata accessible
• Accessibility from scratch
• Accessibility within multimedia environments

The EUAIN network is a co-ordination action co-funded by Directorate H (Unit H3: eInclusion) of the European Commission within the RTD activities of the Thematic Priority Information Society Technologies of the 6th Framework Programme. The EUAIN Consortium would like to thank all those individuals and organisations who have contributed to this work.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

All EUAIN consortium parties have agreed to full publication of this information. The commercial use of any information may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the EUAIN consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the EUAIN consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information. The user thereof uses the information at their sole risk and liability. The European Commission has no liability in respect of this information, which is merely representing the authors' view.

If you feel confident, you can make your additions to the content of this page directly. However, please consult the contributing to this wiki page. Otherwise email— Neil McKenzie

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