# SensusAccess

**<span class="caps">DCP</span>/<span class="caps">OIT</span>** has licensed the **SensusAccess** online file conversion service. Sensus combines a series of file conversion tools &amp; unifies them in a web form interface. Specify the source file &amp; desired format, and it emails you the result. It converts one file at a time, but the process is quite painless.

It does the “traditional” file conversions: Word to <span class="caps">PDF</span>, <span class="caps">PDF</span> to <span class="caps">HTML</span> or ePub, etc. They also include many choices that can help disability access: synthetic speech, braille output formats, optical character recognition of <span class="caps">JPG</span> and some other image types. It doesn’t remove the need to author accessible documents, but gives end users a great deal of flexibility to read in their preferred format. Some routines, like the PDF&gt;Word module make intelligent guesses and (usually) produce documents with improved structure.

We are gauging interest in making this a long term viable service for the campus. If there are a bunch of files and want them all in the same format, or would like to listen to some documents during your commute, please give it a try. Or, come up with a use case we haven’t thought of!

Find out more and start converting files at:

- [http://dcp.ucla.edu/file-convert/](http://dcp.ucla.edu/file-convert/)

See also:

- Sample best practices, [http://scribe.stanford.edu/bestpractices.html](http://scribe.stanford.edu/bestpractices.html)
- Homepage, [http://www.sensusaccess.com/](http://www.sensusaccess.com/)

*(Thanks to Patrick Burke for this! )*