Digikrant: Accessible Flemish Daily Newspapers
Principal researcher
Name: Jan Engelen
Project details
Start date: 01/10/1995
End date: 30/09/2010
Description: The Digikrant project aims to offer visually impaired people in Flanders the possibility to read a newspaper on an autonomous and daily basis. To reach this, the VZW De Braillekrant has been established. The 'blind friendly' newspaper is published in 2 formats: braille and electronic. Each evening, a selection of the most interesting articles is made for the newspaper in braille version out of the next day's newspaper. These articles are transferred to a format that is readable for a braille printer. Overnight, this braille version is published and sent to all subscribers. The electronic version of the newspaper, the 'Digikrant', contains all articles, but in well defined electronic format (Daisy/XML). A braille display or speech synthesizer attached to the user's computer makes the electronic newspaper accessible.
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Last updated: 01/04/2008