International conference Brno, 8 – 11 February 2011 Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning Design, Brno 2011 Masaryk University Teiresiás, Support Centre for Students with Special Needs Brno 2011 How to cite this book (ISO 690) Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning Design, Brno 2011. Brno: Masaryk University, 2011. ISBN 978-80-210-5828-6. (Proceedings of the Conference Uni- versal Learning Design, vol. 1. ISSN 1805-3947.) How to cite an article from this book (ISO 690) The Name of the Author(s). Title of the Paper. In Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning Design, Brno 2011. Brno: Masaryk University, 2011. p. xx–yy. ISBN 978-80-210-5828-6. (Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning De- sign, vol. 1. ISSN 1805-3947.) Edited by Teiresias Centre of MU Šumavská 15, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic www.teiresias.muni.cz © 2011 Masarykova univerzita ISBN 978-80-210-5828-6 ISSN 1805-3947 Contents Preface 7 Section 1 – Standards of Universal Learning Design at Universities and Testing of Persons with Special Needs 9 Modifications of the admission tests at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague – options and limits Ilona Gillernová, Václav Mertin 11 A model of Accessibility Service Provision for Students with Disabilities in Higher Education Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Alexandros Pino, Hernisa Kacorri 23 Meaningful means of making universities accessible and their meaning(fulness) in practice Petr Peňáz 35 (Ex)Change for Success – The Higher Education Accessibility Guide (HEAG) Andrea Petz, Klaus Miesenberger 53 Section 2 – Linguistic Competence of the Hearing Impaired and the Role of Sign Languages in Tertiary Education 59 Students with severe hearing impairment as competent learners of English as a foreign language Ewa Domagała-Zyśk 61 A Methodology for Automatic Sign Language Dictionary Creation Jakub Kanis, Petr Peňáz, Pavel Campr, Marek Hrúz 69 Multimedia Dictionary of Terms for Drama Education, Czech – Czech Sign Language Radka Kulichová, Robert Milič 79 OCELLES Project – Concepts and Lexicons in Written and Signed Languages Observatory Cédric Moreau 85 Experience of Providing Simultaneous Transcript to Universities and Sample of Some Other Options, Including On-line Transfers Martin Novák 93 Educational Technology and other Learning Resources in English Language Instruction for Students with Hearing Impairment Anna Podlewska 101 The Role of E-Learning in the Education of the Deaf Tomáš Sklenák, Lucie Štefková, Alexandr Zvonek 109 TV Subtitles as a Tool for Enhancing Language Skills for Deaf Persons Věra Strnadová 115 A Wireless System for Real-Time Distribution of Visually Accessible Synchronous Transcription (Speech-to-Text Reporting) Targeted to Larger Group of Users with Hearing Impairment in Environment of (Not Only) Tertiary Education Jiří Tužil 119 Visualization of Spoken Language by a Visually Accessible Synchronous Transcription, Speech-to-Text Reporting, and Other Systems of Communication for Persons with Hearing Impairment Usable in Tertiary Education Gabriela Vojáčková 127 Section 3 – Universal Design of Electronic Documents and Public Electronic Libraries for Purposes of Tertiary Education 133 Universal Accessibility of Documents: Workflows and Tools for Efficient Service Provision Klaus Miesenberger 135 Access to Maths and Science for Print Impaired People Dominique Archambault 139 odt2daisy: Preparing Accessible Documents at the DTBook Format with OpenOffice.org Dominique Archambault, Jan Engelen 151 The Hybrid Book – Just One Document For All Petr Hladík, Tomáš Gůra 157 Searching-by-Hearing: Sonification of the Search Engine WhatsOnWeb through a User Experience Design Process Maria Laura Mele, Stefano Federici, Simone Borsci 161 Automatic Reading of Educational Texts for Vision Impaired Students Jindřich Matoušek, Michal Campr, Zdeněk Hanzlíček, Martin Grůber 169 Possible Uses of a Multi-User Virtual Environment in the Education of Persons with Special Needs Hana Marešová 181 “Guidelined” and “Principled” Web Content Accessibility – What It Means in Practice of Universities Svatoslav Ondra 193 The Guide to Accessible Digital Content Afra Pascual, Mireia Ribera, Miquel Térmens, Llúcia Masip, Toni Granollers, José Luís Gonzàlez, Marina Salse, Jorge Franganillo, Bruno Splendiani 199 Perceptibility and Understandability of Documents in the Internet Radek Pavlíček, Roman Kabelka 207 Section 4 – Specific Learning Disorders and Other Types of Neurodiversity in Tertiary Education and Compensation Devices 217 The system I4Control® – Hands-free Interaction with a Computer Marcela Fejtová, Martin Dobiáš, Vratislav Fabián 219 Techniques of Text Processing by Students with Dyslexia with Regard to Nature and Range of the Disorder Iveta Macháčová 229 List of Workshops 233 Author Index 235 Preface TheUniversal Learning Design International Conference 2011, held on 8–11 February 2011 in Brno to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Teiresias Centre at Masaryk University, provided the first opportunity for a practical presentation of the universal accessibility design of tertiary education and a possibility to share experience with professionals who take care of the practical matters and thus technologically, organ- izationally, legally, linguistically, psychologically or pedagogically provide for the univer- sal learning design at the university level in Europe as well as other parts of the world. 210 participants took part in the conference, 42 of whom gave a paper or workshop. The programme of the conference was divided into four thematic tracks and enriched by accompanying events such as thematic workshops and other presentations. Keynote speakers and chairs of individual sections were: 1. Standards of Universal Learning Design at Universities and Testing of Persons with Special Needs – Alan Hurst, Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, London – Joachim Klaus, Study Centre for the Visually Impaired Students, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 2. Linguistic Competence of the Hearing Impaired and the Role of Sign Languages in Tertiary Education – Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen, Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo 3. Universal Design of Electronic Documents and Public Electronic Libraries for Purposes of Tertiary Education – Klaus Miesenberger, Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler Univer- sity Linz 4. Specific Learning Disorders and Other Types of Neurodiversity in Tertiary Educa- tion and Compensation Devices – Willy Aastrup, Counselling and Support Centre of the Danish School of Edu- cation, University of Aarhus. The conference offered an opportunity to present partial results of the project Universal Learning Design – Innovation in Interpreting and Communication Services within the Operational Programme “Education for Competitiveness” of the European Social Fund. The conference was therefore partly financed by the European Social Fund. Masaryk University would like to follow up the first year of the Universal Learning Design conference and to organize other events of this type in the following years. The first opportunity will be the 13th ICCHP conference at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, where the second year of the ULD conference will take place as one of the thematic sessions. In the present proceedings, full texts of the papers given in the individual tracks are published; further information and materials that were available to the conference par- International conference Universal Learning Design 7 ticipants or which were part of the partial output of the conference up to now (abstracts, presentations and electronic versions of the full texts of the individual papers, video re- cordings and speech to text reports from the conference rooms, etc.) are available to registered participants online on the conference website www.uld-conference.org. ULD conference organizers 8 Brno, 8 ‒11 February 2011 Section 1 Standards of Universal Learning Design at Universities and Testing of Persons with Special Needs International conference Universal Learning Design 9 Modifications of the admission tests at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague – options and limits Ilona Gillernová, Václav Mertin Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague, Czech Republic [email protected], [email protected] Keywords: Physically disabled individuals, special educational needs at university stu- dies, modification of entrance examinations and study programmes, putting modifications into practice at the Faculty of Arts, CU in Prague. Abstract The article deals with some issues regarding equal approach of disabled individuals to uni- versity education in the context of terms and conditions of studying at Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague. It deals with the options and limits of modifications of entrance examinations and the study programmes themselves. The modification of study require- ments forms an essential prerequisite for successful admission, process and completion of university studies for individuals that have special educational needs. The modifications are based on the student’s needs and at the same time on the programme’s characteristics, on the graduate’s profile, type of study, possibly even the possibilities of further assertion on the job market. The broad range of programmes offered at the Faculty of Arts, CU in Prague presents a variety of experiences. 1 Introduction The article deals with modifications