Future Work

Software Analysis and Design

The US Depts. of Education and Justice warned “It is unacceptable for universities to use emerging technology without insisting that this technology be accessible to all students”

Referred to students with print disabilities, including visual impairment

Background

There is a need for a cost effective text-to-speech(TTS) application that can read multiple file formats.

The lack of applications which can support the TTS service causes inconvenience to people with print disabilities.

Problem

Develop enhanced version of open source eBook reader that will be fully accessible to students with print disabilities

Product will be able to read multiple file formats including ePub, txt, rtf, and htmlThe system will provide an enhanced learning experience for people with print

disabilities

Project Goals

Current free text-to-speech applications are usually limited in the amount of file formats they can read

Most text-to-speech applications that support multiple file formats are not open source

Current Solutions

HyunJeong Yoo and Chris Fennerhttp://www.ceti.cse.ohio-state.edu/

Figure 3: Main Flow Diagram

Show the main flow of reading eBook tasks that a user is supposed to perform in our application.

When the application is launched at the first, the first starting view is a Root view. After that, the application starts from the eBook View with an eBook which was read before.

Architecture Refine code to optimize performance and stability

InterfaceImplement customized menu to provide greater accessibility

A special thanks to Prof. Rajiv Ramnath, Prof. Carolyne Sommerich, and Steve Jacobs for initiating this project and SangHyun Park for her wonderful work.

IDEAL ePub Reader

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Figure 1: System Architecture Diagram

Uses the Android Text-To-Speech capabilities to provide full accessibility for users Uses the Android SQLite Database to store book info, bookmarks, and authorsTouch-screen interface available for users without vision impairmentsKeypad interface available for users with vision impairments

System Architecture

Figure 2: Use Case Diagram

One type of a user: ReaderSince accessibility is fully integrated, a reader with print disability and one without

print disability will be treated the sameThe three major use cases are to manage file lists in a SD card, to read a book that

is already saved, and to download a new book for reading

Figure 4: Entity Relation Diagram

Significance

Developed a highly versatile text-to-speech application with accessibility for individuals with print disabilities