1. 
DAISY overview
Mayu Hamada
hamada@atdo.jp
2012/10/29

2.  Characteristics of DAISY
 Print disabilities
 Accessibility features
 Use cases (demo)
 EPUB3 and DAISY4
 Tools

3. What is DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System)
 eBook format maintained by DAISY consortium
 International standard
 Using W3C standards (HTML, CSS, SMIL ..)
 Open, Free of charge
 Cross platform
 Structure (heading, page etc..)
 Synchronization

4. DAISY types
 Audio only
 Text only (read by TTS (text to speech engine))
 Full-text full-audio (Human voice or TTS synchronization)
If you have text..
 Text search
 Check spelling

5. Accessibility
 More reading opportunity
 By optimizing the presentation
 By using Assistive Technologies
 By converting to the different formats

6. Print disabilities
 Who can’t hold and turn pages because of physical disability or paper allergy
 Cognitive disabilities (including Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism etc..)
 Blind or low vision
 Deaf or hard of hearing
 Intellectual disabilities
 Psychiatric disabilities (keep concentration etc..)
 Illiterate
 In temporary situation (driving, hospital stay, travelers)
 Elderly people
 Those using languages without written scripts (including indigenous people)

7. Using assistive technologies
 TTS (text to speech)
 Refreshable braille
 Joystick
 voice recognition
 Scanning (manipulating by single button)

8. Optimize the display
 Font size (reflow)
 Color contrast
 Line height
 Horizontal or Vertical writing
 Highlight (for Dyslexia, low vision, ADHD)

9. easy navigation
 Heading structure (chapters, sections)
 Sentence (go back and repeat, skip)
 Text search
 Bookmark
 Page, Footnote, Sidebar, Producer note ( navigate / skip )
Semantic markup along with W3C web accessibility guideline

10. Use cases in Japan

11. Sapie (online library)
 Run by National Association of Institutions of
Information Service for Visually Impaired Persons
 130,000 braille data. 30,000 audio DAISY
 link Poket (plextor), Net plextalk, Mybook etc..
 10,000 visually impaired people using (315,000 VIP in
Japan)

12. Multimedia DAISY text book
 Copyright low changed in 2008
 Volunteer network (volunteers, non-profit organizations (NPO),
lighthouse, braille library etc..)
 Full-text full-audio DAISY.
 Elementary, Junior-high, High school (1-12 grade) 123/1,621
 Japanese, English, Social science, Mathematics, Science, Geography,
Physics etc..
 Downloading (ID and password) or CD
About 664,020 LD, ADHD, high functioning autism in normal school. 780 students using
DAISY text books.

13. Use cases (demo)
 Disaster preparedness manual by people with psychiatric
disabilities
 Health care manual of guide-dog
 HIV/AIDS manual for PWD in South Africa
 Social Stories for autism

14. DAISY standards
DAISY4 AI
(Authoring & Interchange)
DAISY2.02 DAISY3
DAISY4 Distribution = EPUB3

15. DAISY4 distribution = EPUB3
 11th Oct 2011 EPUB3 Final recommendation of IDPF
 DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System)
 Accessible e-book standard
 DAISY consortium
 By Librarians in 1995
 EPUB
 Mainstream e-book standard
 IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum)
 By Publishers in 1998

16. DAISY AI: One source multi use
DAISY Authoring and Interchange format

17. mainstream
 iBooks of iPad, iPhone, iPod
 Google Chrome (Readium)
 NOOK of BARNS & NOBLE
 Reader of SONY
 Kobo Reader
 Kindle etc..
EPUB3 support

18. EPUB3 features
 Main features of EPUB3

19. Semantic markup
 Semantic markup with W3C web accessibility guideline
including
 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 MathML (Mathematical Markup Language) (gh demo)

20. multimedia
 Media Overlay (SMIL)
Audio and Text synchronization (correct pronunciation
& spelling for the name etc..)
 Motion picture
sign language etc..

21. TTS (text to speech) suport
 SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language)
 PLS (Pronunciation Lexicon Specification)
Correct pronunciation （f.e. 日本橋（Nihonbashi or Nipponbashi)）
<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="t&#x259;mei&#x325;&#x27E;ou&#x325;">
tomato</phoneme>

22. EGLS (Enhanced Global Language Support)
 Vertical writing
 Ruby (phonetic information for
the Chinese characters in Japan)
 Right to left (Arabic)

23. Tools

24. DAISY software supports EPUB
 ReadHear by gh
Ensure accessibility
 EasyReader by Dolphin

25. EPUB3 viewer supports Media Overlay
 Readium (Google Chrome add-on)
 iBooks of iPad, iPhone, iPod

26. Authoring Tools
 Save as DAISY Translator (MS Word add-on) (DAISY full-text
full-audio with TTS)
 Tobi (Audio recording (human voice/ TTS) to DAISY or EPUB)
 Obi (Audio only DAISY )
 Pipeline2 (Conversion tool (DAISY to EPUB etc..))
 Chatty Infty (MathML)
 Dolphin Publisher (Multimedia authoring)
http://www.daisy.org/tools-services

27. Issues
 DRM prevent access by TTS
 Accessibility quality control
 How to make scientific diagrams and images accessible?
DIAGRAM project ( http://diagramcenter.org/ )
 Production workflow and tools still under development

28. DAISY and EPUB
More choice for accessible reading
Efficient way to get information
One source multiuse
Born accessible