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DAISY and Accessibility for Knowledge
Hiroshi KawamuraPresident, DAISY Consortium e-mail: [email protected] web: http://www.daisy.org/Phone/fax: +81 3 5384 7207c/o Assistive Technology Development Organization1-1-61-101, Wakaba-cho, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan 1820003
ITU ASP COE Training Workshop on Inclusive e-Services & e-Applications for Communities, 22-26 November 2010, Chiang RAI, Thailand, supported by Australian Government
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Vision:Everybody in the world
including persons with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expenses.
Mission:To develop and promote
international standards and technologies which enable equal access to information and knowledge by all people including those with print disabilities and which also benefit the wider community.
DAISY Consortium Vision & Mission
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DAISY Consortium members around the World
http://www.daisy.org
Digital Accessible Information System – Open Standard
Everybody in the world including persons with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expenses
Hiroshi KawamuraPresident, DAISY [email protected]://www.daisy.org
DAISY is the Best Way to Read and Publish
AMIS, a free and open source DAISY player, supports any languages in the world by voice guidance
Hands on a DAISY Player in Nepal
DAISY; reading by Braille
Variety of ways of reading DAISY
Dyslexia support
in
Stockholm
Libraries support people with reading difficulties
DAISY Books at Children’ Room (Stockholm Public Library)
DAISY Books at Children’ Room (Stockholm Public Library)
DAISY Books at Children’ Room (Stockholm Public Library)
DAISY Books at Children’ Room (Stockholm Public Library)
FMLS claims “One book, one DAISY”
Textbook Production in DAISY Way(TPB: Swedish National Library for Talking Books and Braille)
DAISY current users (Print disabilities)
• Blind or low vision• Deaf or hard of hearing• Physical disability which prevents handling of printed books• Cognitive disabilities (including Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism etc)• Intellectual disabilities• Psychiatric disabilities• Age concerned reading difficulties • In temporary situation (including a traveler) • Illiterates• Using languages that don’t have written scripts• (And those with a condition which makes reading books
difficult such as driving a car )
DAISY on YoutubeEnjoy DAISY Part 1•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwRk
vGOhvAEnjoy DAISY Part 2•http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTAHGUOVK20
Enjpy DAISY Part 3•http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjiZzflt_g
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Information for Knowledge
•Timing•Subject•Format•Languag
e
• decision
• reaction
knowledge
Libraries and Telecenters
DAISY Standards development
•DAISY4 June 2011: Mainstreaming with
EPUB
(EPUB3 15 May 2011)
(SMIL 3.0 Dec. 2008)
(MathML in DAISY Modular Extension, 2007)
•DAISY 3, Release 2005
•DAISY 3, Release 2002
•DAISY 2.02 (2001), Out dated: 2.0 (1998) , 2.01
(1999)
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Main Streaming DAISY
•Why?▫Reaching out + Raising the Floor
•How?▫Standard development▫Tools development▫Legal and economical structure change▫Issue oriented dissemination strategy:
AIDS, Disasters, Education, Poverty, &c.▫Procurement strategy
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Main features of DAISY4
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(1) full specifications including motion pictures,
(2)DAISY multimedia including texts, audio and still graphics,
(3) audio only with navigation capacity,
(4) text only DAISY 4 which is identical to EUB3
(5)DAISY Pipeline 2 will make DAISY4 a single master source file
Consequence of Main Streaming DAISY
•All e-publications become accessible
•Feature rich reading becomes a standard
•Multimodality of reading is guaranteed
•Indigenous publishing is promoted
•Waste of resources will be eradicated
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Challenges
•Development resources
•Technology transfer
•Harmonization of standards
•Harmonization with Copyrights
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Article 2: Definitions
For the purposes of the present Convention:
“Communication” includes languages, display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia as well as written, audio, plain-language, human-reader and augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology;
“Reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
“Universal design” means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. “Universal design” shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed.
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
“Communication” includes languages, display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia as well as written, audio, plain-language, human-reader and augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology;
CRPD Article 2
“Reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
CRPD Article 2, continued
“Universal design” means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. “Universal design” shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed.
CRPD Article 2, continued
Global Forum at WSIS 2005
Bridging the Digital Divide: WSIS• WSIS Disability Caucus held Global Forum
on Disability in the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis.
• The forum successfully addressed Internet access, education and training, mobile phone technologies, employment, capacity building, global library of knowledge sharing, social inclusion, multi-stakeholder partnership, accessible multimedia for reading and writing, disaster preparedness, indigenous persons with disabilities, etc, and adopted the Tunis Declaration.
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Tunis Declaration (WSIS Global Forum)• 1. Call upon all governments, private sectors, civil society and
international organizations to make the implementation, evaluation and monitoring of all WSIS documents, both from the first and second phase, inclusive to persons with disabilities;
• 2. Strongly urge that persons with disabilities and our needs be included in all aspects of designing, developing, distributing and deploying of appropriation strategies of information and communication technologies, including information and communication services, so as to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities, taking into account the universal design principle and the use of assistive technologies;
• 3. Strongly request that any international, regional and national development program, funding or assistance, aimed to achieve the inclusive information society be made disability-inclusive, both through mainstreaming and disability-specific approaches;
• 4. Urge all governments to support the process of negotiation, adoption, ratification and implementation of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in particular through enactment of national legislation, as it contains strong elements concerning information and communication accessibility for persons with disabilities.
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2. Strongly urge that persons with disabilities and our needs be included in all aspects of designing, developing, distributing and deploying of appropriation strategies of information and communication technologies, including information and communication services, so as to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities, taking into account the universal design principle and the use of assistive technologies;
Tunis Declaration, continued
18. We shall strive unremittingly, therefore, to promote universal, ubiquitous, equitable and affordable access to ICTs, including universal design and assistive technologies, for all people, especially those with disabilities, everywhere, to ensure that the benefits are more evenly distributed between and within societies, and to bridge the digital divide in order to create digital opportunities for all and benefit from the potential offered by ICTs for development
Tunis Commitments
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Regional Support Centers: Bangkok , New Delhi
Focal Points: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kasakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
AMIS development and localization in more than 20 languages.
WSIS /IGFcommitment
Implementation of WSIS Plan of Actions and UN CRPD
Phuket initiiatives
DAISY for All Project
Eu-Japan ICT collaboration event
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Tsunami disasters can be prevented through:
sharing of knowledge and best practices on Tsunami and other disasters,
strong commitment and active participation for contribution of all stakeholders including in particular persons with disabilities to eliminate the loss of lives,
local community-based initiatives for disaster preparedness and
infrastructure building including Tsunami early warning system at all levels to disseminate timely disaster warning to all people concerned,
building of disability friendly infrastructure addressing accessibility issues in all phases of disaster management.
Phuket Declaration
In a knowledge-based society, ICT development, which includes assistive technologies and universal design concept, will contribute to the success of disaster preparedness development that will meet the diverse needs of all people including those of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable people including women, children, old people, cultural minorities, tourists, etc. in the community.
Such ICT development should be based on internationally-recognized standards that are open, non-proprietary, and have proven track record of accessibility.
Phuket Declaration, continued
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• Beneficiaries of DAISY: – Persons with print disabilities– Speakers of minority languages– Speakers of indigenous languages without written
scripts– Those who are illiterate
ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008
YouTube video on Award Ceremony
Knowledge is a common asset of human societySynchronized multimedia is the best tool to
share knowledge for everybody including persons with disabilities and wider community
DAISY Standard is the free, non-proprietary, inter-operative international open standards for Synchronized Multimedia
DAISY4 is the best standard for authoring of synchronized multimedia contents which may export contents in diversity of formats required by people in the community
Stay tuned on www.daisy.org
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Conclusions