Events
ACP08 Conference, Amsterdam, 6-7 November 2008
Adaptive Content Processing Conference 2008
The ACP ’08 Conference was held in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on 6/7th November 2008. The conference was jointly hosted by the EUAIN Network, the ProAccess Project and the Federation of Dutch Publishers and was held as part of the Amsterdam World Book Capital celebrations.
New technologies are changing the way in which we create, produce and consume content. Over the last few years, the publishing industry in Europe and beyond has been active in responding to the growing demand for more accessible, adaptive content. The publication of the recent Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy demonstrates the central role of these issues.
At the ACP ’08 Conference we hosted a fascinating Round Table discussion on the Green Paper with some key voices from the publishing and accessibility communities. A synchronised podcast of this discussion can be downloaded from the Conference website.
ACP08 tried to bring together a wide range of stakeholders in adaptive content processing and all presentaties from the conference are available online.
Workshop on Content Production Processes towards Accessibility, Venice, 18th January 2008
The workshop was aimed at :
- Describing in detail the workflow actually in place in the publishing production process
- Highlighting the changes and the adaptation needed in order to create accessible documents during the mainstream process.
The discussion focused on effective paths for production of accessible content taking into account:
- current practices of publishing processes,
- content formats needed by visual impaired people
- conversion processes to be applied between the digital file produced by publishers and the accessible content usable by the visual impaired.
Relevant stakeholders such as representatives of the publishing sector, both publishers and technical publishing professionals, experts in conversion processes and representatives of blind organisations and experts in accessibility conversion were involved in an active participation and have been asked to contribute to the discussion with their specific experience and expertise. The final output was the identification of a model for content production process that includes all necessary steps to minimize the efforts to convert in accessible versions the file produced by publishers.
ProAccess Workshop Proceedings January 2008, Venice (687 KB)
ACP 07 Conference, Brussels, 19-20 September, 2007
The programme for this Conference consisted of four sessions and a ProAccess workshop, held over the two conference days.
Session 1: Design For All: Process not Product
Session 2: Learning Technologies & Standards
Session 3: Has ePublishing & Accessibility Failed?
Session 4: With or Without You: Accessibility and Publishing
Pro Access Workshop
The conference was attended by representatives from the publishing industry, both publishers and technical publishing professionals, experts in conversion processes and representatives of blind organizations and experts in accessibility conversion.
The ACP '07 Conference was jointly hosted by the EUAIN Network and the ProAccess Project.
Workshop "Improving Digital Content Accessibility", Amsterdam, May 24, 2007
The workshop focused on key issues on accessibility of information and contents for visually impaired people with special attention to educational materials.
Experts of the field discussed topics of key relevance such as :
- Productive processes for the creation of accessible content
- Different accessible formats
- Cutting-edge experiences and best practices in productive processes
- Copyright-related and contractual aspects in dealing with accessibility
The Workshop was addressed to publishers, educational content producers as well as charities and associations involved at any level in the production and use of accessible materials.
The workshop aimed at fostering an open discussion on the main practical problems in dealing with productive processes for accessible content. By going beyond a mere theoretical approach, the debate brought up possible concrete solutions in order to tackle the issues of providing accessible content to visually impaired people.
ProAccess Workshop Proceedings May 2007, Amsterdam (3.6 MB)
Pro AccessFlyer
ProAccess flyer (600 KB)