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There are two issues that are challenging in the life-cycle of Digital Talking Books (DTB): the automatic labeling of text formatting meta-data in documents and the multimodal representation of the text formatting semantics. We propose an augmented design-for-all approach for both the production and the reading processes of DAISY compliant DTBs. This approach incorporates a methodology for the real-time extraction and the semantic labeling of text formatting meta-data. Furthermore, it includes a unified approach for the multimodal rendering of text formatting, structure and layout meta-data by utilizing a Document-to-Audio platform to render the acoustic modality.
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Tsonos, D., Xydas, G., Kouroupetroglou, G. (2007). Auditory Accessibility of Metadata in Books: A Design for All Approach. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_49
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