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Prof Norm Coombs <[log in to unmask]>
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EASI's Library Accessibility Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:34:56 -0700
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Good organization and navigation of content is the key to both writing more 
readable books and to being able to read them easier.

While print books solved this centuries ago, e-books have just begun to be 
marked up to make them as easy to read and to understand. The kindle and 
the nook let readers jump to chapters and sections and pages quickly. The 
same book mastery is available to people with so-called print disabilities 
using DASI (Digital Accessible Information System.

While writing DAISY books had been difficult, daunting and expensive, this 
is changing. You can obtain a free DAISY software player, AMIS, and you can 
also obtain free the Word-to-DAISY Add-in making creating a DAISY book 
something anyone can do.
EASI has 2 free Webinars this month that will demonstrate both reading and 
writing DAISY documents:

Free EASI Webinar: AMIS: the Free, Open Source Software DAISY Player
Presenter: Marisa DeMeglio, Software Developer for the DAISY Consortium
June 21 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
"This webinar will present how to use the AMIS DAISY player software which 
is a self-voicing program that plays DAISY books on your computer and which 
is available in several languages. AMIS is an open source program and is 
freely available from http://daisy.org/amis."
This Webinar is tied closely to the following Webinar which deals with the 
free software add-in for Word to let anyone create DAISY books.
Free Webinar: Word-to-DAISY Add-in
Presenters: Professor Mireia Ribera, PhD in Library Science from 
Universitat de Barcelona
Afra Pascual, BS in Computer Human Interaction from Universitat Times: 11 
AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 Eastern and 8 in Barcelona (all 
Daylight)


Read about and register for EASI Webinars at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm


de Lleida




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Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  Christopher Reeve
Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]

Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students 
with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html

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