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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
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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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