Auditory accessibility of metadata in books: A design for all approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4556 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages 436-445

  Tsonos, Dimitrios ^a   Xydas, Gerasimos ^a   Kouroupetroglou, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auditory accessibility of text formatting; DAISY; Digital talking books; Document accessibility; Document to audio; e books

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUDITORY ACCESSIBILITY OF TEXT FORMATTING; DIGITAL TALKING BOOKS; DOCUMENT ACCESSIBILITY;

METADATA;

EID: 38149064387     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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