From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:08:00 +0400

Hi All

Laudable indeed.  Wonderful stuff.

For vision impaired readers, I see you have large print and Braille
editions of the plain language guides - have you considered also an
audio recording of the paper?  (No, this is not a criticism, and yes,
the customer is never satisfied :-).  I know there are several good
text-to-speech readers, but I wonder how well they handle those
complex engineering formulae.

(It would also be a lesson for medical and medical education journals
- not only only because of their specific field, but also because of
the complex terminology).

2c.

Regards

Ken

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Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman


On 3 July 2013 05:24, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:44:16 +0000
>
> <Apologies for cross posting>
>
> Feel like a good-news open access story?
>
> There is a fantastic project happening in Australia through Engineers
> Without Borders. Not only is their new journal open access but they
> have thought about all aspects of accessibility – from providing
> understandable short summaries of technical papers to translating them
> into the languages needed in the field, considering internet
> connection availability and providing accessible versions for people
> with disabilities.
>
> This is genuine open access in action, and it should be celebrated!
>
> The AOASG  blog "Accessibility is more than making the paper OA" is
> available now -
> http://aoasg.org.au/2013/07/02/accessibility-is-more-than-making-the-paper-oa/
>
> Have a read and pass it on. There are lessons here for all publishers,
> big and small.
>
> Danny
>
> Dr Danny Kingsley
> Executive Officer
> Australian Open Access Support Group
> e: [log in to unmask]
> w: wwww.aoasg.org.au