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DAISY, the Best Way to Read and Publish

Beijing, 25 April 2008
Hiroshi Kawamura, President
DAISY Consortium
China DAISY Workshop 2008 25-26 May 2008, Beijing

Vision:

Everybody in the world including persons with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expenses.

Mission:

To develop and promote international standards and technologies which enable equal access to information and knowledge by all people including those with print disabilities and which also benefit the wider community.

DAISY Consortium

  • is a world-wide network of libraries, publishers, and technology companies
  • is committed to open source
  • fosters innovation and collaboration
  • develops and maintains the international DAISY Standards
  • develops baseline software to promote the creation of tools that support access to DAISY media
  • supports and encourages its membership around the globe ( www.daisy.org/members)
  • collaborates with disability communities and international organizations such as W3C, ITU, IFLA, WBU to further its work around the world

DAISY Consortium members

Founded in 1996: 6 members of IFLA/SLB

Today April 2008:
14 full member organizations, 55 associate members, 23 for-profit-company friends and 8 individual supporters. DAISY is produced and served in the following 45 countries.

Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA and Vietnam

DAISY Standards

  • support the creation of reading materials that let the reader access the content in a meaningful 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 for reading in history: based on SMIL 1.0
    • DAISY 3, officially, the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book: based on SMIL 2.0
    • “ZedNext” - continued development for the next DAISY Standard: to be based on SMIL 3.0 “DAISY Profile”

DAISY Publications

  • provide 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 output
  • meet both simple and advanced reading needs

Reading Needs met by DAISY

Simple reading needs

  • most books are contained on a single medium (CD, flash card, etc.)
  • single button stop and start
  • last point read is retained for multiple books
  • navigation by headings
  • last point read is retained for multiple books
  • sleep function

Advanced reading needs

  • bookmarking
  • word searching
  • "go to page" functions
  • speed up and slow down of audio with no audio distortion ?navigation by headings and pages
  • optimizing visual presentation including font size and color contrast

DAISY Users

  • who are Blind or low vision
  • who are deaf or hard of hearing?
  • who have difficulty to handle printed books??????who are with cognitive or intellectual disabilities????who are with psychiatric disabilities
  • who are in temporary situation that prevents sharing of knowledge and information in print format
  • who are with age concerned reading difficulties
  • who are illiterate
  • who requires structured access to oral legacy in languages without a written script

DAISY Playback Tools

  • Audio only Players
    • Stand alone
      • CD
      • Solid state memory
    • Network
  • Software Player
    • PC/PDA software
      • AMIS, TPB Player, TAB Player, &c.
    • Mobile phone software
  • Impact of SMIL 3.0 “DAISY Profile” for multimedia player

DAISY Players and users

DAISY Production Tools

  • Full featured authoring tools
    • Free
      • SigtunaDAR3(2.02, non-for-profit),TOBI(Free Open Source)
    • Commercial
  • Conversion tools
    • Free open source
      • Save as DAISY XML Translator for MS Word + Pipeline
    • Commercial
  • Audio based production tools
    • Free
      • My Studio PC (2.02, not-for-profit), OBI (Free Open Source)
    • Commercial

Requirements Gathering

  • DAISY standard is reviewed every 2 years
  • Open requirements gathering through http://www.daisy.org/z3986/requirements/
    • ex. sign language support requirements posted by Swedish SIT and comments
  • Promoting user participation through requirements gathering

User requirements harmonization

  • Sometimes user requirements conflict each other at least at a glance
  • Technology development to achieve a break through is always required to develop standards with harmonization
  • Development of use cases with full participation of users with disabilities is key to successful standard development

Research on real world use cases

  • Those who are deaf and blind at the same time have severe challenges for social life and security
  • SMIL 3.0 DAISY Profile is designed to meet the requirements of print disabled people including deaf-blind individuals because developers were involved in a research project on Tsunami disaster preparedness
  • Interactions between real world use cases and professional developers with cutting edge technology may give us solutions
    cf. Story of Marisa

Universal Design and Assistive Technologies

  • DAISY contents is a set of electronic files based on DAISY standards
  • Users may have access to the same contents depending on their preference and environment
  • Wide range of tools, devices and services may provide users with optimal access to information and knowledge
  • DAISY Global Library will increase opportunities to have equal access to information and knowledge with reasonable cost

International Collaboration

  • WSIS Civil Society Disability Focal Point and follow-up
    • Workshop on Accessibility, IGF
    • Strategy Council GAID
    • Phuket Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities
    • AIDS manual in South African languages
    • Indigenous knowledge networking
  • DAISY for All Project
  • Tackling global issues through accessible knowledge (disasters, education and health)

Disability Caucus in WSIS

DAISY for All in Developing Countries

Conclusions

  • DAISY is ICT standards being developed in collaboration with persons with print disabilities to bridge the digital divide and realize digital opportunities
  • Universal Design (DAISY Books) in combination with assistive technologies (playback and authoring tools) is the best logical and practical solution to share information and knowledge for everybody including persons with disabilities with reasonable cost
  • Critical issues of the whole community, such as disaster evacuation, AIDS treatment or pandemics prevention, are good subjects of collaborative research of DAISY family in the world to prove the power of DAISY