EPUB 3 and DAISY State of the Art and Accessibility George Kerscher March 1, 2012
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EPUB 3 and DAISYState of the Art and Accessibility
George KerscherMarch 1, 2012
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EPUB 3 and Accessibility
The incorporation of the DAISY accessibility requirements into the non-proprietaryEPUB 3 standard holds significant promise for the increased availability of commercialproducts that are useable, out of the box, by a wide range of consumers. Specification is available at http://idpf.org/epub/30
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Accessible Publishing EcosystemWide array of pieces must fall into place in order to have an accessible publishing ecosystem:•Commitments from the accessibility community•Standards and Guidelines•Samples•Validation tools and accessibility checkers•Accessible reading systems•Math support•Beautiful user interfaces •User friendly ways to purchase content
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Accessibility Guidelines and Support
• Guidelines in support of accessible publishing in EPUB 3 are accessible for all and will be frequently updated.
• ‘Accessible EPUB 3’, published by O’Reilly, available at:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025283.do • Accessibility Forum on the IDPF site: http://idpf.org/forums/epub-accessibility
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EPUB 3 Sample Files
• The DC will collaborate with the IDPF and its Members and Friends to gather EPUB 3 content samples.
• Go to http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/downloads/list
to check out the latest samples• IDPF Samples include accessibility features
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DAISY Consortium and IDPF• The DAISY Consortium will continue to be committed to
collaboration with the IDPF in the development and evolution of digital publishing standards
• The DC will monitor the development of accessibility check in EpubCheck and promote accessibility evaluations. EpubCheck project site is located at
http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/
• EPUB Validator is now available at http://validator.idpf.org/
• The DAISY Consortium will participate in Readium Project to bring accessible EPUB 3 content and reading systems to users faster, learn more at http://readium.org/
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Other Ongoing Developments
• The mechanisms to handle descriptions of graphical content - the DIAGRAM Project, more info at: http://www.diagramcenter.org/development.html
• The DAISY Consortium will continue to monitor and influence HTML5 developments to increase the accessibility features in that specification
• The DAISY Consortium will support the NISO process for the Authoring and Interchange Framework for Adaptive XML Publishing
• The DAISY Consortium will continue to support the DAISY 2.02 and 3 Standards
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DAISY ToolsDAISY tool development to support EPUB 3:•Tobi - accessible multimedia production tool http://www.daisy.org/tobi
•DAISY Pipeline 2 - next generation framework for automated production of accessible materials http://www.daisy.org/pipeline2/
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DAISY on Mobile Devices
10 mobile applications for reading DAISY books on mainstream devices are availableand more in development
•DAISY Marketplace: http://www.daisy.org/tools/mobile-applications
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Portable DAISY Players
• PlexTalk Pocket, Milestone 212 and 312, BookSense XT and DS, BookPort, Victor Reader Stream, Olympus DM-4 and DM-5 players, ClassMate Reader
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Hardware DAISY Players
Array of legacy DAISY Players:
•NLS players, available at no cost to qualified people - does not support text-to-speech yet•HumanWare Stratus players•PlexTalk PTX 1 / Pro – DAISY Online Delivery compatible•Braille Sense OnHand by HIMS can read DAISY books
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DAISY Software Players
• EasyReader - supports DAISY and EPUB• ReadHear PC and ReadHear Mac - support
DAISY and EPUB, Math support• Ida-reader - supports DAISY and EPUB• Book Wizard Reader• AMIS (free)Go to our website to see the list of DAISY
players: http://www.daisy.org/tools/splayback
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Mainstream Reading Systems• Kindle - does not natively support EPUB• Nook – Barnes & Noble working on improving
accessibility• Adobe Digital Editions - supports EPUB
• iBooks demo
Share your experiences of using mainstream reading systems
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Goal: Enriched Accessible Reading Experience for All
• Work with us to bring DAISY reading experience into the mainstream, to make ALL publications accessible to EVERYONE.
• Join the DAISY Consortium!• More information is available at daisy.org