daisy overview
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Characteristics of DAISY
Print disabilities
Accessibility features
Use cases (demo)
EPUB3 and DAISY4
Tools
What is DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System)
eBook format maintained by DAISY consortium
International standard
Using W3C standards (HTML, CSS, SMIL ..)
Open, Free of charge
Cross platform
Structure (heading, page etc..)
Synchronization
DAISY types
Audio only
Text only (read by TTS (text to speech engine))
Full-text full-audio (Human voice or TTS synchronization)
If you have text.. Text search Check spelling
Accessibility
More reading opportunity By optimizing the presentation By using Assistive Technologies By converting to the different formats
Print disabilities
Who can’t hold and turn pages because of physical disability or paper allergy
Cognitive disabilities (including Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism etc..)
Blind or low vision
Deaf or hard of hearing
Intellectual disabilities
Psychiatric disabilities (keep concentration etc..)
Illiterate
In temporary situation (driving, hospital stay, travelers)
Elderly people
Those using languages without written scripts (including indigenous people)
Using assistive technologies
TTS (text to speech)
Refreshable braille
Joystick
voice recognition
Scanning (manipulating by single button)
Optimize the display
Font size (reflow)
Color contrast
Line height
Horizontal or Vertical writing
Highlight (for Dyslexia, low vision, ADHD)
easy navigation
Heading structure (chapters, sections)
Sentence (go back and repeat, skip)
Text search
Bookmark
Page, Footnote, Sidebar, Producer note ( navigate / skip )
Semantic markup along with W3C web accessibility guideline
Use cases in Japan
Sapie (online library)
Run by National Association of Institutions of Information Service for Visually Impaired Persons
130,000 braille data. 30,000 audio DAISY
link Poket (plextor), Net plextalk, Mybook etc..
10,000 visually impaired people using (315,000 VIP in Japan)
Multimedia DAISY text book Copyright low changed in 2008
Volunteer network (volunteers, non-profit organizations (NPO), lighthouse, braille library etc..)
Full-text full-audio DAISY.
Elementary, Junior-high, High school (1-12 grade) 123/1,621
Japanese, English, Social science, Mathematics, Science, Geography, Physics etc..
Downloading (ID and password) or CD
About 664,020 LD, ADHD, high functioning autism in normal school. 780 students using DAISY text books.
Use cases (demo)
Disaster preparedness manual by people with psychiatric disabilities
Health care manual of guide-dog
HIV/AIDS manual for PWD in South Africa
Social Stories for autism
DAISY standards
DAISY3
DAISY4 AI (Authoring & Interchange)
DAISY4 Distribution EPUB3=
DAISY2.02
DAISY4 distribution = EPUB3
11th Oct 2011 EPUB3 Final recommendation of IDPF
DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) Accessible e-book standard DAISY consortium By Librarians in 1995
EPUB Mainstream e-book standard IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) By Publishers in 1998
DAISY AI: One source multi use
DAISY Authoring and Interchange format
mainstream
iBooks of iPad, iPhone, iPod
Google Chrome (Readium)
NOOK of BARNS & NOBLE
Reader of SONY
Kobo Reader
Kindle etc..
EPUB3 support
EPUB3 features
Main features of EPUB3
Semantic markup
Semantic markup with W3C web accessibility guideline including SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) MathML (Mathematical Markup Language) (gh demo)
multimedia
Media Overlay (SMIL)
Audio and Text synchronization (correct pronunciation & spelling for the name etc..)
Motion picture
sign language etc..
TTS (text to speech) suport
SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language)
PLS (Pronunciation Lexicon Specification)
Correct pronunciation （ f.e. 日本橋（ Nihonbashi or Nipponbashi)）
<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="təmei̥ɾou̥"> tomato</phoneme>
EGLS (Enhanced Global Language Support)
Vertical writing
Ruby (phonetic information for the Chinese characters in Japan)
Right to left (Arabic)
Tools
DAISY software supports EPUB
ReadHear by gh
EasyReader by DolphinEnsure accessibility
EPUB3 viewer supports Media Overlay
Readium (Google Chrome add-on)
iBooks of iPad, iPhone, iPod
Authoring Tools
Save as DAISY Translator (MS Word add-on) (DAISY full-text full-audio with TTS)
Tobi (Audio recording (human voice/ TTS) to DAISY or EPUB)
Obi (Audio only DAISY )
Pipeline2 (Conversion tool (DAISY to EPUB etc..))
Chatty Infty (MathML)
Dolphin Publisher (Multimedia authoring)
http://www.daisy.org/tools-services
Issues
DRM prevent access by TTS
Accessibility quality control
How to make scientific diagrams and images accessible? DIAGRAM project ( http://diagramcenter.org/ )
Production workflow and tools still under development
DAISY and EPUB
More choice for accessible reading
Efficient way to get information
One source multiuse
Born accessible