The DAISY Standard for Digital Talking Books:Mainstreaming Accessibility

摘要

The DAISY Consortium, consisting of approximately 100 organizations and corporations representing 35 different countries, was formed in 1996 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 wader community. The DAISY standard has come a long way since its original 1994 proprietary version that introduced some document structuring to "talking books" that would allow easier navigation by the user. Now on version 3.0, the DAISY standard is an open standard supporting multimedia with broad applications for improved access to text that appeals to the mainstream as well as those with print disabilities.