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== Accessibility Options for Ebooks/Readers==

(http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=16669#p68445)

by B Ferrell - Friday, 10 February 2012, 06:57 PM -

I have added a paragraph on the blog on special accessibility ereaders, software and books from Daisy that may be used on Daisy readers and some tablets.

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Audio books or "books on cd" have been around for a long time, but the audio books most related to mobile learning are those designed for reader users who have a problem with print. The Daisy [1]format has been designed for those users and stands for "Digital Accessible Information System" or Digital Talking Book.

The books are based upon the Daisy Standards [2] and will support both text to speech and Braille output content in a mixed media approach [3] for various readers and tablets.

Available Daisy formatted books can be found here as well as other sites listed on the Daisy site. Bookshare offers them free for qualifying students.


 * Bookshare [4]
 * Project Gutenberg [5]
 * L'Association pour le Bien des Aveugles et malvoyants in Switzerland [6]
 * Vision Austalia's Information Library Service in Australia [7]
 * CINB Digital Library in Canada [8]
 * National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) in the United States [9]
 * National Braille Press [10]
 * O'Reilly eBooks [11]

The ASB [12] has some public domain books that you can download and use with a public reader http://www.daisy.org/amis/download [13]

Links: -- [1] http://www.daisy.org/daisy-technology

[2] http://www.daisy.org/z3986/structure/SG-DAISY3/index.html

[3] http://www.daisy.org/multimedia

[4] http://www.bookshare.org/

[5] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[6] http://www.abage.ch/

[7] http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/

[8] http://www.cnib.ca/en/services/library/daisy/accessing-daisy/Default.aspx

[9] http://www.loc.gov/nls/

[10] http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/IPHONE.html

[11] http://oreilly.com/ebooks/

[12] http://www.asb.org/agency-services/alternative-formats/daisy-books.html

[13] http://www.daisy.org/amis/download