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The Daisy Consortium activities in the field of accessibility

International Telecommunication Union Workshop “Accessibility to ICTs”, Shanghai, China, 23 July 2010. The Daisy Consortium activities in the field of accessibility. Hiroshi Kawamura President The DAISY Consortium hkawa@atdo.jp. The DAISY Consortium. Vision

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The Daisy Consortium activities in the field of accessibility

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  1. International Telecommunication Union Workshop“Accessibility to ICTs”, Shanghai, China, 23 July 2010 The Daisy Consortium activities in the field of accessibility Hiroshi Kawamura President The DAISY Consortium hkawa@atdo.jp

  2. The DAISY Consortium Vision The DAISY Consortium envisions a world where people with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expense. Mission 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. DAISY: Digital Accessible Information System

  3. Current DAISY users Those who are; • Blind or low vision • Deaf or hard of hearing • with Physical disability which prevents handling of printed books • with Cognitive disabilities (including Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism etc) • with Intellectual disabilities • with Psycho-Social disabilities • with Age concerned reading difficulties • Illiterate • temporarily difficult to read texts such as foreign travelers • Users of a language that doesn’t have written scripts In addition, those in a “mode” which makes reading a text difficult, i. e. driving a car

  4. DAISY = Accessible Multimedia • United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Article 2: accessible multimedia, reasonable accommodation, universal design

  5. Born of DAISY as a free, open, non-proprietary, inter-operable standards • International Federation of Library Associations wanted to promote international inter-library loan of talking books • Section of Libraries for the Blind: 1986 Tokyo, 1995 Toronto • Libraries were suffering from vulnerability of talking book collections: Magnetic tapes on a huge magnet • Users of professional readings were frustrated with analog cassettes: Navigation issues

  6. DAISY develops open standards • DAISY3 = ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 • DC is the official maintenance body • Based around W3C recommendations • WAI; Web Accessibility Initiative guarantees accessibility of W3C recommendations

  7. Why open standards? • Wider acceptance by industry • Free: including least developing countries • Open: everybody may use • Non-proprietary • Inter-operative • Sustainability of standards • Maintenance through open and transparent process: requirements gathering • User participation use case development

  8. Sample DAISY Books Resource Manual on HIV/AIDS by DPSA DAISY initiative on Combating Against AIDS in South Africa was presented at “ITU Forum on Accessibility & e-Health 2009, Geneva”

  9. Example of DAISY multisensory education materials for Tsunami Evacuation • Go straight to the point • Tell what to do rather than what should not be done • Use favorite or familiar • characters • pictures • drawings • voices • favorites • places • tastes • Music, rythm • Understanding by brain and by body both

  10. Digital Accessible Information System DIASY is the Best Way to Read and Publish Everybody in the world including persons with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expenses

  11. Revision of StandardsDAISY4 and EPUB３ DAISY3 Multimedia DAISY DAISY4 Multimedia DAISY DAISY Talkingbook Text DAISY = EPUB３ DAISY Talking Books Text DAISY EPUB２

  12. Open Source Software Development • DAISY Pipeline 1 & 2 • DAISY Translators (ODF/Open XML to DAISY XML) • Obi/Tobi: interactive authoring tool • AMIS: Adaptive Multimedia Information System: localization features • LGPL licensing policy

  13. Disability Caucus in WSIS: Bridging the Divide

  14. WSIS and follow-up • World Summit on the Information Society • disability focal point • Global Forum on Disability • IGF, RIO, etc. • ITU World Telecom 2009, Geneva

  15. Disaster Session at WSIS in Tunis 2005

  16. International Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities, Phuket, January 2007 & May 2009

  17. Inclusive DRR in Manila

  18. DAISY for All in Developing Countries Accessibility Symposium, Kobe, 2010

  19. WorldTelecom 2009, 5-9 October, Geneva

  20. World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008 YouTube video on Award Ceremony

  21. DAISY Focal Points

  22. Conclusion DAISY is the best way to read and publish http://www.daisy.org/

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