The Needs and Expectations of Stakeholders
DAISY AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PERSPECTIVE
DIPENDRA MANOCHA
DAISY CONSORTIUM
- The DAISY Consortium envisions a world where people with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expense.
- The DAISY Consortium's mission is to develop and promote international standards and technologies which enable equal access to information and knowledge by all people with print disabilities and which also benefit the wider community.
ONE WORLD FOR ALL
Everyone including persons with disabilities:
- Study together in the same school
- Work together in the same office
- Get information from the same web site
- Need same information and books as everyone else
STANDARDS: KEY TO ACCESSIBILITY
- Developers cannot understand capabilities or limitations of every one
- Follow standards with proven track record on accessibility for all
- DAISY for documents and publications: http://www.daisy.org
- EPub for electronic document distribution format: http://www.openebook.org/
- Web Content Accessibility guidelines for web site user interface: http://www.w3.org/wai
- Unicode for Local Language Representation: http://www.unicode.org
ONE SOURCE; MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTION FORMATS
DAISY DTBOOK-XML is source document for distribution formats such as:
- Hard copy print book
- EPUB e-text book
- Braille book
- Talking Book
- Large Print Book
SITUATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- 90% of population with print disability live in developing countries
- Solutions not available in local languages
- Solutions not affordable
- Services delivered by many small organizations
DAISY FOR ALL PROJECT
- 2003-2008 established DAISY focal points in 12 developing countries
- Created library infrastructure
- Developed Skilled human resource
- Software and content development in local languages
- Created network of organizations
PROBLEMS DUE TO COPY RIGHT RESTRICTIONS
- Restrictions in scaling up library services
- Wasting resources in recreating everything which already exist