Components of a Total Solution

• Look Up Service

  • • To expedite DSS effective publisher contact

• Source File Clearinghouse (National)

  • • To expedite access to quality source files

• Normalize and Professionalize the Process

  • • Establish Best Practices, Guidelines, templates etc.

    • Establish accessibility tagging conventions

• Improve file enhancement processes

  • • For alt text, tactile graphics, human audio, math, etc.

• Promote: educate people on the front lines

  • • Publishers, DSSs, their institutions, braille transcribers, students all need better knowledge

Speaker Notes:

Cumulative process:

1. Look up services

2. Source file clearinghouse

3. Normalize and Professionalize the process (bringing in all groups). Publishers are getting different standards with different states…so this process is to help normalize process and introduce effection

4. Improve file enhancement processes

5. Promote via education of people on the front lines.