ACAP Learning Resources: Learning Resource Accessibility: SensusAccess

How to find eResources
Learn about finding library resources including journal articles, books, ebooks, & videos.
Information Skills Online: Interactive Tutorials
Interactive tutorials to help you develop the skills to effectively search for academic resources.

SensusAccess

SensusAccess allows students to convert documents into a range of alternate media including audio books (MP3 and DAISY) from:

Text: .ASC, .DOC, .DOCX, .HTM, .HTML, .RTF, .TEX, .TXT, and .XML
Slides: .PPT, and .PPTX
eReader: .EPUB, and .MOBI
Images: .BMP, .DCX, .DJV, .GIF, .J2K, .JP2, .JPEG, .JPG, .JPX, .PCX, .PNG, .TIF, and .TIFF
Miscellaneous: .PDF, and .ZIP

SensusAccess

There are four different services:

Audio: Conversion into plain MP3 files and well as DAISY Talking Books, including Daisy books with spoken math.
Braille: Transcription of documents in contracted and uncontracted Braille in accordance with the code for Unified English Braille (UEB). Documents can be formatted, paginated and delivered as ready-to-emboss files in a variety of digital Braille formats.
E-Book: Documents can be converted into .EPUB, .EPUB3, .EPUB3 with media overlays, and .MOBI (Amazon Kindle) e-book formats. To accommodate users with low vision, the base line of the body text in an e-book may be raised to allow for more appropriate text scaling in mainstream e-book readers.
Format Conversion: Otherwise inaccessible documents such as image files and all types of .PDF files can be converted to more accessible formats. The service supports conversion of Microsoft Office documents into tagged .PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into .RTF files and web-projects.

Navigate using the above tabs for instructions on using each service.

Upload your document
Select your file and upload it to the server (max 64 MB).

Specify audio options
Choose the language of your document and how fast you want the speech.

Enter email address and submit request.
The turn-around time ranges between a few minutes and a few hours depending on the size and type of your source document and the requested conversion.

Note: The email may come from one of these emails: pony@sensus.dk, pony@sensusaccess.com, or pony@robobraille.org. Please make sure these addresses are whitelisted on your spam filter.

Upload your document
Select your file and upload it to the server (max 64 MB). Multiple files of the same type may be selected.

Specify Braille options
Choose the language of your document, requested contraction level, and target format of the Braille document.

Enter email address and submit request
The turn-around time ranges between a few minutes and a few hours depending on the size and type of your source document and the requested conversion.

Note: The email may come from one of these emails: pony@sensus.dk, pony@sensusaccess.com, or pony@robobraille.org. Please make sure these addresses are whitelisted on your spam filter.

Upload your document
Select your file and upload it to the server (max 64 MB). Multiple files of the same type may be selected.

Specify e-book options
Choose the target format of your e-book. Format options are EPUB, EPUB3 with media overlay, and MOBI (Kindle). Base font sizes are Normal, Large (16pt), Xlarge (24pt) and Huge (40pt).

Enter email address and submit request
The turn-around time ranges between a few minutes and a few hours depending on the size and type of your source document and the requested conversion.

Note: The email may come from one of these emails: pony@sensus.dk, pony@sensusaccess.com, or pony@robobraille.org. Please make sure these addresses are whitelisted on your spam filter.

Upload your document
Select your file and upload it to the server (max 64 MB). Multiple files of the same type may be selected.

Specify accessibility conversion options
Choose the target format of your new file. Format options include .DOC, .DOCX, .RTF, .PDF, .XLS, .XLSX, .CSV, .TXT, .HTM

Enter email address and submit request
The turn-around time ranges between a few minutes and a few hours depending on the size and type of your source document and the requested conversion.

Note: The email may come from one of these emails: pony@sensus.dk, pony@sensusaccess.com, or pony@robobraille.org. Please make sure these addresses are whitelisted on your spam filter.