Assessing the Accessible Content Provider Landscape in North America
Question Set


1.Country        
Canada
US
Other


2. Which entity has oversight for providing accessible formats at your institution?         
Library
Student Services
Other


3. What platform Mac/PC are you using? (Select all that apply.)        
PC
MAC
Linux/UNIX


4. What is the platform of preference for your students? (Please select one.)        
PC
MAC
Linux/UNIX


5. Are you offering digitization services for your students?        
Yes
No
Other
 
6. Have digitization requests:
Increased over the last 3 years
Stayed constant over the last 3 years
Decreased over the last 3 years
Don't know


7. How many items do you digitize per academic year?        
0
1-20
21-50
51-100
101-500
501 plus


8. What is your preferred scanning method? (Select all that apply.)        
Flatbed
Document feeder
SLR setup
Other


9. What scanning preferences are in use primarily? (Select all that apply.)        
Bitonal (black and white)
Grayscale (16 bit/24 bit)
Colour (24 bit/48 bit)
Other


10. Do you perform any post processing on scanned materials? (Select all that apply.)
Deskew
Cropping
Contrast
Brightness
Histogram adjustment
Image cleanup (digital erasing)
Despeckle
Alt-text
OCR
Other


11. What software products do you use to create OCR? (Select all that apply.)        
ABBYY
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Prime Recognition
Other


12. What software (other than OCR) is being used to support post-processing (such as ALT-Text, etc.)?        


13. What software are you using to support the digitization and OCR of mathematical materials?        


14. Please rank the popularity of the following formats with your students. (1 is least popular, 4 is most)
PDF: 1,2,3,4
EPUB: 1,2,3,4
Braille: 1,2,3,4


15. What is your turnaround rate for an average sized book of 350 pages?
One day
Three days
One week
Two weeks
Three weeks plus
        
16. How many requests for books in accessible format do you receive per year?        
0
1-50
51-100
101-200
200 plus


17. What percentage of those book requests are original scans?        


18. Do you make use of a central repository? (Select all that apply.)        
Yes - In House
Yes - Consortial
Yes - Other
No


19. Do you apply a temporal restriction to the duration of your retention of digitized items?        
Yes
No
It depends


20. How many faculty, staff, and students does your institution provide alt-formats for each year?
1-20
20-40
40-60
60-80
80-100
100-200
200-300
400+


21. Do you have arrangements with publisher file repositories? If so please select any below you are utilizing.         
Bookshare US
Bookshare UK
AccessText Network
AERO
Other


22. For publishers outside of the larger sharing networks, have you had any luck securing special arrangements to obtain accessible versions of etexts/ebooks for registered students?         
Yes
No
Other




23. Please list publishers with whom you have had luck securing special arrangements to obtain accessible versions of etexts/ebooks for registered students (if applicable).        


24. Are you providing Braille to your students?         
Yes
No


25. Are you providing Tactile Braille to your students?        
Yes
No


26. What are your timelines for providing these Braille and Tactile materials to your students?        
Less than a week
1 week
2 weeks
1 month
2 months
2 months plus


27. What is your workflow to fulfill Braille and Tactile requests (if applicable)? Include a link to your procedures if available.        


28. Who fulfills your Braille and Tactile content requests?        


29. Are you offering professionally produced MS Word materials? (This is referring to OCR verification and correction)        
Yes
No


30. If providing MS Word materials, are these created in-house or are they outsourced to a service provider? (Select all that apply.)        
In-house
Service provider
Other


31. Could you please provide links to policies governing the provision of accessibility services in your library? (Or feel free to paste text into comment box below.)        


32. Are students required to purchase materials for which they are requesting alternate formats, or does your institution permit that items in the library’s holdings be digitized for this purpose? (Please select all that apply.)        
Student has to purchase
Library holdings can be digitized
Other


33. Who provides your budget for purchases of equipment? (Check all that apply.) Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Library
Institution
Consortium
Charitable organization