Accessible E-Books for Disabled People: Structured Design of online Books Assuring Access To E-Learning

The aim of this paper is to illustrate Structured Design of Documents (SDD) with special focus on print disabled readers in terms of defining an applicable meta-data formatting specification for publishing companies ensuring accessible e-books meeting the needs of print disabled readers. Print disabilities are impairments that prevent people from holding printed materials or from reading independently for themselves standard print due to a visual, perceptual or physical disability. SDD can also be regarded as the prerequisite for E-Learning whose foundations are electronic documents. This means that Advanced Learning Technologies in the context of accessibility are adaptive to the disabilities and individual preferences of learners who need to access their learning resources in their preferred medium. The ultimate benefit of SDD lies in the fact that an accessible rendition of the document for print disabled persons is being produced. Addressing SDD in turn gives rise to Multi Channel Publishing (MCP) which means, publications are chosen out of a content pool for a specific target audience, the appropriate content objects are assembled and a rendition is produced and published via multiple channels like paper, web site, portal, e-Book, CD/DVD, PDA, wireless to reach the target audience.