[Athen] ***Two EASI Webinars Coming Soon

[Prof Norm Coombs]

EASI has 2 Webinars in the next 3 weeks that are both interesting 
and   important

1.  Webinar: AMIS a Free Software DAISY Pllayer
Wed. July 23 at 2 PM EASTERN
Presenter: Norm Coombs

The DAISY format will increasingly become the format for e-books in the 
near future because of its greatly enhanced document navigation. However, 
the DAISY documents require a special player to access them. There are a 
number of commercial hardware and software DAISY players. AMIS, (Adaptive 
Multimedia Information System), is a free open source software DAISY player 
which can be downloaded from (http://amis.sourceforge.net/)
This Webinar will provide a very brief introduction to AMIS and will 
discuss installing it and describe its settings and functions.

2      Webinar on the Word-to-DAISY Add-in
3      Thursday August 7 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: George Kerscher from the DAISY Consortium

The new "Save as DAISY XML" add-in, designed for Microsoft Office Word 
2007, Word 2003 and Word XP, will allow users to save Open XML-based text 
files into DAISY XML navigable books.  It can be download by Office Word 
users for free at http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/daisy.

This XML output can then be processed through the DAISY Pipeline, a free 
downloadable transformation suite that supports the seamless conversion of 
DAISY XML into DAISY Digital Talking Book (DTB) format. Together these 
technologies provide a comprehensive solution for converting text documents 
into accessible formats for people with print disabilities. Users can 
download the DAISY Pipeline from the DAISY Project page at 
http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline/.

** you can read more about these 2 Webinars and register at:
<http://easi.cc/clinic.htm>http://easi.cc/clinic.htm





  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Norman Coombs norm.coombs at gmail.com
CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone)
****READ ABOUT THE DICK BANKS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm