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Symposium of the Austrian HCI and Usability Engineering Group

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AltText: A Showcase of User Centred Design in the Netherlands

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In the information processing chain many documents are produced that are inaccessible to the reading impaired. The altText project aims to increase the accessibility of this content by: a) raising awareness among content providers about content adaption; b) allowing content providers to deliver content in a way that suits the needs of the information receiver; c) developing an online service that converts written text into several accessible formats (Braille, synthetic speech, large print or DaisyXML). The name of this service is the altText conversion portal. The paper argues that user centred innovation will be crucial to the success of this project.

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  1. Stichting Dedicon, Molenpad 2, 1016 GM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Kathleen Asjes

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  1. Research Unit HCI4MED, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (IMI) Auenbruggerplatz 2/V, Medical University of Graz (MUG), 8036, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  2. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

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Asjes, K. (2009). AltText: A Showcase of User Centred Design in the Netherlands. In: Holzinger, A., Miesenberger, K. (eds) HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion. USAB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_28

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