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 ------ 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