Stephen King, President of the DAISY Consortium, discusses how EPUB 3 and inclusive publishing can revolutionize accessibility in the market. He explains that print disabilities exclude many from education and culture. While e-books increase access, the experience remains poor. EPUB 3, with accessibility built-in, provides business benefits by reaching more customers with efficient multi-format publishing. Publishers who adopt EPUB 3 standards and partner with specialized producers can play a role in the "market accessibility revolution" while improving their business.

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EPUB 3 e a revolução da Acessibilidade no mercado
(EPUB 3 and the Market Accessibility Revolution)
Stephen King - Presidente do grupo DAISY
with
José Borghino - Diretor de Política da IPA –
International Publishers Association
Moderator: Pedro Milliet - Fundação Dorina Nowill - Brasil

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Publishing Industry Access Challenge
• Your industry is being transformed by e-books and the
digital revolution
• Print books have been a huge barrier to education, work
and culture for people with a print disability
• The e-book revolution offers the opportunity to transform
your industry and include people with print disability at
minimal cost
• Global publishing leaders have taken up the challenge;
Charter for accessible publishing
• IPA, IFRO, International Authors Forum, WIPO, UNESCO
• Elsevier, Pearson. Harper Collins, Random House

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Will you take the Access
challenge?
Support the Charter for
inclusive publishing
Take positive action to
improve access
www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org

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What I am going to cover
• Who am I? How can I help you improve business?
• What’s the role of the DAISY Consortium in helping you deliver
The “Publishing Industry Access Challenge”
• What is “ABC”: Accessible Book Consortium / industry
partnership; and how you are part of it
• The Global EPUB 3 revolution
• What inclusive publishing looks like?
• What you should be doing?

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Who is Stephen King?
A career in consumer publishing
• 10 Years with (Harper) Collins publishers
• Dictionary & Children's book publishing
• Early use of computers & databases in publishing
• 7 years Films, Video & Art publishing
• 20 years RNIB publishing: Large print, Braille, Talking books &
e-books
• Founding member of DAISY Consortium
• Now President of DAISY Consortium
• Board member ABC: Accessible Book Consortium

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How can I help you?
• Do you want to still be in business in 5 years time?
• Do you want to reach more customers?
• Do you want to improve your efficiency?
• Do you want your industry to rise to the 21st
century challenge of “Equal access for all”?
• Let me tell you about how inclusive publishing with
EPUB 3 will give your business an advantage

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But First:
• Let me tell you about the DAISY Consortium and ABC
• Why we are creating the best way to read and publish
• What is print disability
• How print disabled people get excluded from education,
work & culture
• How many people have a print disability?
• How are they served at the moment?
• How do e-books help?
• How does Inclusive publishing help?

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DAISY is a Global not for profit consortium
Not for profit Members, For profit Friends

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DAISY members support our vision of better
inclusion of people with print disabilities

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DAISY Consortium Vision
• People have equal access to information and
knowledge, regardless of disabilities
Our Mission
• Working to create the best way to read and publish,
for everybody, in the 21st century
By delivering global partnerships ... that build a more
effective solution for everyone.
Committed to a common mission & vision.
Coordinating resources to deliver global change

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Global partnerships for
Inclusive Publishing

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Our goal - confident readers
reading what they want, when they want with eyes,
ears or fingers
Wherever they are in the world

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Since Caxton people with print disability
denied access

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Print disabled learners denied access to
curriculum

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What is print disability?
(Numbers are uncertain)
• Blind & partially sighted people ~285 Million globally
• Includes many older people with age related conditions
• 1 in 7 people over 60 struggle to read ordinary print
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/
• Other conditions
• 1 in 5 US students have a language based learning
disability, dyslexia is the most common
• UK estimates that 4% of population has dyslexia and up to
15% prone to it
• 20-30% of prison population found to have dyslexia
• Stroke, Aphasia and other physical problems

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Until now Libraries for the Blind have
helped people
Reading with eyes ears & fingers

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But libraries can’t keep up
• Explosion of publishing worldwide
• Producing Large print, Braille and talking
books is expensive
• Only 5% of books available in these
formats in best performing countries
• Curriculum materials very difficult

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WBU Launched The Right to Read Campaign in 2000
• "Less than 5% of books are
available in any accessible
format"
• "It’s a book famine"
• "We want the right to read the
same book at the same time,
price and place as everyone else“
• DAISY Consortium takes up the
challenge!

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DAISY Consortium Strategy 2000
• A better way to read: Delivered by 2004
• Digital talking books with good navigation
• e-books with good navigation
• Hybrid audio & text books for great experience
• A better way to share resources
• Global copyright reform: Marrakech Treaty 2013
• Accessible Book Consortium WIPO/IFFRO/IPA/WBU-- 2014
• A better way to publish:
• Identified potential of e-Books to transform publishing
• Partner with IDPF on EPUB development
• EPUB 3 launched in 2012 with accessibility built in

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By 2012
e-books transforming accessibility
• Physical: Light and easy to use e-book readers
• Low Vision: Enlarge & Bold the print on e-readers
• No Vision: Listen to synthetic speech reading text or
use braille display to read with fingers
• Deaf & Blind: Braille display
• Dyslexic: Combine highlighted text with synthetic
speech or narrated audio to re-enforce reading
• But still a poor user experience and many barriers

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This is what
Amazon say
about the latest
Kindle Fire

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Reading with Synthetic speech
Screen reader & synthetic voice
built into Apple (VoiceOver) &
Android (Talkback)

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Reading with Synchronised Text and Speech

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DDReader from Dorina Nowill

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Reading e-book with fingers

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The Impact: In last 4 years
e-books have transformed access in UK for
people with print disabilities
• In 2000 less than 5% books readable with eyes ears or fingers
• By 2012 7% of all books available in UK accessible by eyes, ears &
fingers. (Up from 5% in 2004)
• 84% of top 1000 books sold in 2012 are e-books, readable by eyes, ears
& fingers on day of publication. (Up from 54% 2010 & 74% in 2011)
• Of top 1000 99% adult fiction, 77% non-fiction & 43% children's
readable by eyes, ears & fingers
• Illustrations, pictures, maths, science still significant problems
• www.rnib.org.uk/knowledge-and-research-hub-research-reports/reading-and-braille-research

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The Impact on people:
•Last year Amazon updated
the Kindle app to give
better access to its 1.5
million books.
•Let’s hear how this
transformed reading for
Laura

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E-books can deliver inclusion for many
(But not all)
• e-books can deliver accessibility (In English)
• Consumers have adopted e-books very fast
• But it’s a poor consumer experience
• For everyone
• Poor navigation, limited note taking, poor maths & sciences,
trapped in proprietary technology, complex layout difficult.
• For print disabled people
• Difficulty with Image descriptions; not everyone has skills
• EPUB 3 - significant consumer & business benefits

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The Business Case for Inclusive Publishing
• Get more customers & enhance your products
• 3-10% print disability market
• Better and premium products for everyone enhances sales
• Navigation allows travel guides, Cookery etc; In Car reading, Talking manuals
• Meet inclusion legislation in Education, Government,
workplace etc
• UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities
• Strong legislation in North America, Europe, India, Australasia
• Education publishers and technology providers increasingly find
themselves excluded from contracts where they can’t deliver access.
• Lower costs as part of multi channel marketing
• EPUB 3 first: Automate to multi-channels, mobile, web, print, Braille etc

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Business case for EPUB 3
• Global open standard adopted across all continents
• IPA Endorsed EPUB 3 as Global Publishing Standard (March 2013)
• HTML5 in a box: Integrates ICT strategy across web, mobile, e-
books, TV, print, braille etc. Replaces PDF for all but print ready
• Single source file, render across many platforms. Sufficient
mark-up available to automate across all media, lowering costs
• Reduce reliance on proprietary channels by delivering rich user
experience to browsers, generic mobile/tablets as well as
proprietary e-book channels
• Royalty free, open source, open governance standard
• Delivers inclusion
• Many print disabled people can just buy the e-Book and read
• Increased efficiency for specialist Access Enhanced production
Inclusion

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EPUB 3 books deliver for consumers &
publishers
Still much to do… Many publishing and
reading problems still to solve
• Some layout issues still
challenging
• Problems with news,
curriculum, STEM children's
& non-fiction
• Synthesised speech not for
everyone
• IDPF+ DAISY
Consortium working to
solve issues
• Great partnership with
publishing industry
• Solve them we will……
• Communications &
education challenge

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DAISY Consortium
Strategy for Inclusive Publishing
• Increasing numbers of e-books that have built
in accessibility: Inbuilt access publication
• Improved efficiency where publications need
access enhanced: Access enhanced material

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Inbuilt accessibility: Standard
e-Book read by eyes ears or fingers

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Enhanced accessibility version
• Picture descriptions, complex layout
• Combine human narration and text for best experience
• Simplified for learning disability
• Economically derived from standard e-book
• Partnerships with specialist producers (EG Dorina Nowill)

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The Inclusive “Market
Accessibility” model of publishing:
• I can discover access features of any book easily
• From bookshop, library, internet, ABC/TIGAR catalogue
• Most books have the access features I need
• I get most books from same shop or library as others
• Read on phone, tablet or specialised device with eyes, ears or fingers
• For some books I need enhanced access features; and
get these easily
• Discover what’s available from ABC/TIGAR catalogue
• Easily order from local or global authorised entity (University, school,
library, shop, online service provider etc)

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Your role in Market Accessibility Revolution
• Increase numbers of your e-books that have built
in accessibility: Inbuilt access publication
• Sign up to ABC Charter for Accessible Publishing
• Adopt EPUB 3 and get authors, designers, editors to use good
mark-up practice. (Use the O’Reilly Texts)
• Press technology suppliers to support good access
• Catalogue & promote access features & get feedback
• Improve efficiency where publications need
access enhanced: Access enhanced material
• Partner specialist producer and distributor
• Link them into your workflow
• Support cataloguing of access features
• Partner them on route to market

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Don’t get left behind!
Play your part in the “Market access revolution”
• Adopt the ABC “Charter for inclusive publishing”
• Develop your digital strategy to support inclusion
• Plan your workflow to take advantage of EPUB 3 cost reduction
benefits & press tech suppliers to support
• Develop better products for all with navigation, sound etc.
• Partner with a specialist Access Enhanced producer
• Improve your business!
• Make more money, beat the competition, reduce your costs

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Take the Access challenge?
Support the Charter for
inclusive publishing
Take positive action to
improve access
Improve your business
prospects (& profits!)
www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org

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EPUB 3 e a revolução da Acessibilidade no mercado
(EPUB 3 and the Market Accessibility Revolution)
Thank You!
Stephen King - Presidente do grupo DAISY
s.p.king@outlook.com
President@DAISY.org
José Borghino - Diretor de Política da IPA International Publishers Association
Moderator: Pedro Milliet - Fundação Dorina Nowill - Brasil