Development, production, and distribution of accessible textbooks and books for children with disabilities


- 3.1 Digital Transformation (DX) of University/Education (Virtual University/On-line Education/Realistic Telepresence)
- 4.3 Universal Access, Fairness of Use
Takeo Kondo
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
Associate Professor
We operate an online library that develops, produces, and distributes digitally accessible educational materials (AEMs) for students who face difficulty reading regular textbooks and other books due to disabilities. We also provide Application Programming Interafces for AEM data access for third-party developers, and operate a data management platform that develops, produces, and distributes digital data to speed up and facilitate the production of AEMs in a variety of data formats by mediating between publishers and volunteer groups that produce AEMs nationwide.