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The Daisy Consortium Envision a world wide where people with print Disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge without delay or additional
expenses. Our mission is to develop and promote international standards and technologies which enable to equal access to information and knowledge by all
people with print disabilities and which also benefit the wide community. The Daisy consortium
The Daisy StandardsSupports the creation of reading materials the let the reader access
the content in a manful and useful way are open and based on existing open
standards such as those from W3C are evolving Daisy 2.02 the most widely
adopted access Technology reading in history Daisy is for EVERYONE who needs accessible information and for
EVERYONE who loves to Read. Daisy Book Provides an enriched multimedia
reading experience that is completely accessible. Are made up of synchronized
text (xml) and audio or structured text that can be read with synthetic speech. Can support Braille out put meet both simple and advanced reading needs?
Simple reading needs most books are contained on a single medium (Co, flash
card, etc) Last Point read is retainted for multiple books Single button stop
and start navigation by headings Sleep function more advanced reading needs · book marking · word searching · go to page functions · speed up and slow
down of audio with no audio distortion. · Navigation by
heading and pages. Daisy projects and open source Development (www. daisy.org /projects)
ObiFully accessible audio recording tool Obi enables a broader audience to produce accessible, navigable DAISY books, bringing the benefits of DAISY technology to a broader range of consumers. In addition, Obi reduces the time required to work with sophisticated production tools and significantly reduces costs that may create barriers for some. The Obi release features enhancements and bug fixes. Users can export their project to DAISY 3 and now also to DAISY 2.02 DTB that conforms to the DAISY standards, then validate and encode it to MP3. DTB Merger, a utility that enables users to combine two or more DTBs into a single book, is also distributed with this release. For the full list of bug fixes and enhancements please go to the New Features and Enhancements Page on the Obi development site. Obi is released under the LGPL license and is available for download at the Obi development site. We would like to thank all contributors. If you need any help, find a bug or want to give your opinion, please go to the Obi Public Forum. for more detail Contact Us: |
