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Implementing Accessibility in Published Knowledge DAISY4 and EPUB3 Development

Implementing Accessibility in Published Knowledge DAISY4 and EPUB3 Development. Hiroshi Kawamura President, DAISY Consortium hkawa@atdo.jp. DAISY Consortium: www.daisy.org.

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Implementing Accessibility in Published Knowledge DAISY4 and EPUB3 Development

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  1. Implementing Accessibility in Published KnowledgeDAISY4 and EPUB3 Development Hiroshi Kawamura President, DAISY Consortium hkawa@atdo.jp 6th IGF, Nairobi, 27-30 September, 2011

  2. DAISY Consortium: www.daisy.org • DAISY Consortium was established in 1996 to develop free, open, interoperable and feature rich accessible multimedia standards by library communities serving for people with print disabilities • WSIS 2003 & 2005: Disability Focal Point • UN CRPD implementation: Art. 2, 21, 30, 49http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/prompt/wsisindex.html • DAISY3 = ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 = US NIMAS • WIPO WG: TIGAR, Enabling Technology & CB • ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2011

  3. DAISY4 and EPUB3 integration in 2011 DAISY2 & DAISY3 PIPELINE DAISY4 Authoring & Interchange PIPELINE Books Large Print Braille PIPELINE EPUB3 = DAISY 4 Distribution Text Audio Video TOC Text Audio Picture TOC Text TOC Audio TOC

  4. Current status of DAISY4 and EPUB3 • EPUB3 is in the final process of official release expected in September 2011 • Recommendation Candidate for DAISY4 Authoring and Interchange Format, or ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2011, is in public comment process till 28th September 2011 and expected to be officially released by the end of 2011 • Production and playback tools are being developed to support DAISY4 AI and EPUB3

  5. Outcome of DAISY4 & EPUB3 merger • Electronic Publications may have full accessibility and navigation features that have been developed by DAISY and other international accessibility standards such as WCAG: • Selection of appropriate font size, type and color contrast • Reading aloud with variable speed by either TTS engine or human narration synchronized with text, graphics and mathematical equations • Supporting Braille Reading • Supporting video synchronization including sign language interpretation • Enhanced global language support: East Asian, Arabic, &c. Sample contents are downloadable for DAISY Reading Experience: HIV/AIDS Resource Manual in 4 SA languages in DAISY format: http://www.normanet.ne.jp/~atdo/english.html

  6. Conclusions • DAISY4=EPUB3 standards will enable publishers to publish in accessible formats that meet the requirements of everybody including persons with disabilities, people living with minority languages in the community, people living with indigenous languages that do not have written scripts and those who are illiterate. • DAISY4=EPUB3 standards will help alternative format production to share publications globally • Appropriate legal framework to guarantee the global sharing of accessible e-publications such as the “Proposal on an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities” need to be implemented as soon as possible (cf. WIPO SCCR/22/16)

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