Listen-up and bookshare

[Janina Sajka]

The theory of DAISY suggests that reading text only DAISY content should
still be better than standard methods, because of the navigation
provided. Implementing this is another story, though.

I don't think we're likely to get there until the maintanance committee
for the latest iteration of the standard, ANSI Z39.86-2002 to be
precise, releases reference content. They're actively working on
reference content. This is what Kirk referred to, and I agree that it's
needed to move forward. Hopefully, it'll be available later this year.


Cheryl Homiak writes:
> From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net>
> 
> Hi Ann and all.
> i agree there's no use wasting time trying to make listen-up read books
> that aren't standard compliant.
> also if they aren't audio (I had wondered since I didn't see any audio
> files) one can just as well read them in the way i suggested, using the
> xml file.
> I just wanted to make sure the difficulty wasn't something I was doing.
> Thanks to everybody for the reassuring responses.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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