• Making the Digital Humanities More Open

    Project Director(s):
    Jennifer Giuliano (see profile) , George H. Williams (see profile)
    Author(s):
    Cory Bohen, James Smith
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    Data Rescue
    Subject(s):
    Communication
    Item Type:
    White paper
    Institution:
    University of South Carolina Research Foundation
    Tag(s):
    Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, NEH White papers, Communications
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64M2B
    Abstract:
    BrailleSC will undertake its second stage of development by designing and deploying a WordPress-based accessibility tool that will create braille content for endusers who are blind or low vision. Specifically, we plan to extend the use of Anthologize--a free and open source plug-in for WordPress that currently translates any RSS text into PDF, ePub, HTML, or TEI--to include the conversion of text to braille. As a result, we will not only make it easy for content creators to convert a text into braille, thereby extending humanities content to hundreds of thousands of visually disabled readers, but we will also experiment with making braille available visually through the WordPress interface. In partnership with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park, we will continue to model the ways in which digital humanities projects should be designed and implemented with the needs of disabled users in mind.
    Notes:
    The development of a tool to make digital texts in the humanities accessible to visually impaired readers by converting text into braille.
    Metadata:
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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