[Athen] Daisy Software

[E.A. Draffan]

We have just had three awareness raising days on the subject of Daisy here
in UK and the www.altformat.com website will, we hope, become a repository
for ideas, papers and other resources with lots of links inc those to AHEAD
etc.  So please, if anyone is willing to send me reviews or anything they
find really helpful in relation to producing  and using alternative formats
I will try to make up some pages for the site.  
 
In this case I have my British Dyslexia Association hat on, as one of the
organisations supporting the events, so if there are items linked to LD as
well as Visual Impairment I would be even more happy!! :>)
 
I would also really appreciate hearing about the comparison of Dolphin
EaseReader, ghPlayer, eClipseWriter, and Book Wizard Reader and even TPB.  I
am looking at how other programs such as TextHelp Read and Write, ClaroRead
Plus etc read DTBs.
 
Many thanks. 

Best Wishes E.A.

Mrs E.A. Draffan
Assistive Technologist
Mobile: 07976 289103
http://www.emptech.info/


 

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Kilcommons,Cath
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:49 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Daisy Software


Hi James,
At CSU, we are still experimenting with a variety of ways to have our
students access the content of digital talking books, and what is used tends
to depend upon a variety of things, including where the DTB originated from
and the format (DAISY 2 vs.3). Our students also tend to like the hardware
players, and we continue to look at various options for these.  Personally,
I tend to like the ghplayer because of its versatility.
 
Back in March, Robert Beach starting working on an ATHEN project to compile
member reviews of some of the players, and you might want to contact him to
find out about the status of this project.  He is on the list or you could
contact him directly: Robert Beach [rbeach at kckcc.edu].
 
Regarding production, (which we are not currently doing), I think a prime
candidate is the Dolphin software. One of the nicest aspects of this is that
there is great documentation on using this from AHEAD -  AHEAD's Alternate
media Production Resources
(http://www.ahead.org/etext/AHEAD%202005%20Production%20Binder%20-%20Distrib
ution.pdf)
<http://www.ahead.org/etext/AHEAD%202005%20Production%20Binder%20-%20Distrib
ution.pdf> .  Thanks again, Gaier and Ron!
 
Please feel free to look at the materials that our center and grant complied
for a recent training we provided for our CO/WYO Disability Provider
Consortium: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/ATRC/alttext/alt_textbooks.htm.
 
Best regards,
Cath
 
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Cath Stager-Kilcommons
ACCESS Project
Access  Specialist
Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC)
Colorado State University
970-491-0788
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/ATRC/ <http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/ATRC/> 
cathk at cahs.colostate.edu 

 

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Weier, James
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:09 PM
To: 'athen at athenpro.org'
Subject: [Athen] Daisy Software



Hello,

 

I'm new to this listserv. I've been on the DSSHE listserv for a long time
and only recently decided to see what this listserv is like. Anyway, I have
a question about Daisy Readers and Authoring software.

 

I've been testing Daisy software lately...Dolphin EaseReader (they sent me
the full version to test), ghPlayer, eClipseWriter, and Book Wizard Reader.
I know my likes and dislikes about these and would like to find out what
other schools are using to create and/or read Daisy books (software-wise,
not hardware-wise). I would also like to know as to why you use that
software, and what you like & dislike about it.

 

Thank you,

James A. Weier
Adaptive Tech. Specialist/Access Office
St. Louis Community College
3400 Pershall Road
Ferguson, MO. 63135
314-513-4162 (phone)
314-513-4876 (fax)
jweier at stlcc.edu

 


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