DAISY Technology and Print Disabled

Abstract

Access to information and knowledge is very important for people. However, there are restrictions on access to this information for certain groups of people. The print disabled who are, the blind, partially sighted, dyslexics, those with visual impairments, physically handicapped, and learning-disabled who have difficulty in accessing print media information. Digital talking books were the significant technology for the print disabled community to access printed media information. Now a day, many university and relevant agencies had launched the development of digital talking book services. The one thing that important for digital talking book services was Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) technology; it is an open international standard for accessible multimedia developed by libraries serving persons with print disabilities in collaboration with the target users around the world. The core of DAISY technology is synchronization of text, graphics and audio based around W3C recommendations to meet the needs of people who require diversity of accessibility features of reading materials to share human knowledge and provides much easier access to content for the print disabled. Thus, the DAISY Technology provided excellent potentials for the production of digital talking books and effective to access information, it also implied an integrated performance for print disabled learning methods. This decreases the need for facilities and gap of disability people. Moreover, the knowledge of this studies also creating a society of participatory and a wide sharing of knowledge.