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Reaching our Audience

Content

• Vision Australia i-access ®– Print Disability in Australia – Service outline– Service Delivery Challenges– Implementation milestones

• Shaping the future– Issues and Challenges– Partnerships– A way forward

Service Outline i-access®

• Goal• An open, on line service• books, newspapers, magazines, text• mobile remote devices

• What it is now– Digital information and library service– Committed to production and delivery of all commonly used

alternate formats such as Braille, audio, large print, text in a DAISY format

• Key drivers – obsolescence of the analogue systems– expand reach and quantity of accessible information

Service Outline i-access® : access and usability

Strategy– Create an end to end process :

• Content – production – distribution - consumption– Transition to on line and support current service– Client choice and new pathways to information– Significantly build library content :

• conversion of existing analogue, DAISY consortium purchasing, commercial purchasing and in-house production

– Build in house digital content storage and delivery capability

– Enhance alternate production and distribution processes– Financial and technical sustainability

i-access® scope : End to End

• Digitised books and other content• Online storage and data management• Search, select and delivery options• Member playback options

Content Creation

Processes

Content Storage and Management

Content Search & Delivery

Vision Australia i-access®Our Client

• Free service• Age

• 11 years – 100 years ; median 79 years• Technology

• Access• Capability

• Diverse needs• Recreation/ education / workplace information• Alternate formats

• Access• Cost• Location

Service Milestones i-access®

• Full trial 2005-06• 1000 members• CD and handheld

• Currently– Digital library service established : 12,000 DAISY titles– Over 14,000 CD & 500 handheld DAISY devices distributed– Stage 1 i-access® Online service introduced :

• 130 newspapers • 30 magazines • 30 books every month

– Burn on Demand :16,000 CDs per month– 76 TB of mass file storage installed

i-access® - News on the Go

• On line newspaper delivery service started in 2007– 170 local and national newspapers published daily or weekly

– Over 30 magazines from the same publishers

– Free of charge to client

• Partnership with 2 major Australian newspaper publishers– Fairfax and News Limited

– No charge to Vision Australia by publishers

• Features– Subscribers receive newspaper by 6 a.m. each morning

– Conversion fully automated

– Editions updated throughout the day

….today I read the newspaper inbed for the very first time….

Bernadette, 56

News on the Go Flowcharti-access® online

DAISY LibraryFTP Server

Narrator OCR

Internet

Electronic filefrom Publishers

i-accessWeb services

DAISYConverter

Vision Australia Production Server

Synthetic Voice(If requested)

DAISY 2.02&

DAISY 3

i-access Downloader(application) DAISY

Text or Audio

Range of reading devices

Hardware or software

Automated

Service Delivery Challenges

• Vast area to cover– Europe fits into Australia over 2 times

• Population Comparative

– 22 million people ; 70% urban– 300,000 b/vi ; 50% split urban to rural

• Cost– no national broadband provider– very limited Government support– Cost to establish digital platform $25 million

Service Delivery Challenges

Future Design : end to end

Content Production Distribution Consumption

• Publishers• Newspapers• Magazines• Education• Government• Others eg Google

• i-access®Production Manager

• Manual Content Production

• i-access®On-line

• alternate FormatProduction

• Desk top• Laptop• Postage• Landline• Mobile• VA Radio• Public LibraryNetwork

Vision Australia i-access®Shaping the Future

• Partnerships– Hosting– Production– Discounted rates– Global Library concept

Vision Australia i-access®

Georgina , 11 - …it makes me feel like all the other kids…

Elaine, 81 - …I’d feel lost… books are my lifeline…

Prof Ron McCallum AO, - ……amazing technology compensates…involved