-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi jim. This is very fortunate, actually. I've been meaning to contact someone from bookshare and discuss the ... how do I put this ... the general lack of software to read the daisy standard. It's good that daisy has murged with epub, I've heard that this was going to happen but I didn't know it had already. But if daisy has murged, why has bookshare opted to stick with daisy version 3? My other question revolves around your list of software that you officially endorse, or recommend. I've seen little, to no, software that runs on linux to read the books you provide. I'm not complaining, just wondering if this is because there is no linux software to handle the format, definitely possible, or something else? If bookshare were to switch over to epub, linux would immediately have software available to read the format. For now, we have to resort to opening up the books in firefox, which is possible but a little suboptimal, especially for large books. Thanks Kendell clark Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
Jim Fruchterman wrote: > Hi, new on this list. Jim Fruchterman of Benetech, mainly FLOSS > developer of software for people with disabilities and human rights > groups. > > Interesting that the first email I see is about tech for people > with disabilities. We operate Bookshare, probably the largest ebook > library for people with visual impairments (and dyslexia, and other > disabilities that get in the way of reading printed books). > > My advice to Kendell would be to focus any ebook reading primarily > on EPUB, which is the main commercial ebook format from the IDPF. > DAISY has pretty much merged with the latest EPUB, so it's easier > to align mainstream work with disability work. When we built a > browser-based reading tool into our Bookshare library website, we > used the open source EPUB-consuming Readium tool as a base, and it > worked with minor tweaks. > > The one thing I can't comment effectively on is DRM, because we > didn't adopt the DAISY Consortium DRM mechanism, preferring to not > lock the content and make life difficult for our users and > developers using the Bookshare API. > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kendell clark > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:29 PM To: [email protected] > Subject: [Osdc-list] the digital accessible information format > > hi all I've been thinking about writing an article on > opensource.com to expand on my accessibility in linux article. This > one will be discussing the challenges us blind people face when > trying to read the same books as sighted people, primarily > revolving around the only blind specific standard for these books, > the digital accessible information system, or daisy. Highlights > will include problems with the spec, the drm mechanism, the audio > formats it supports, and general disinterest in the blind linux > community in supporting the format. Any thoughts? Should I cover > something else? I'm still new to writing open source articles, and > feedback is very much welcome Thanks Kendell clark Sent from Sonar > GNU/Linux > > _______________________________________________ Osdc-list mailing > list | This is a place for our readers, writers, moderators and > artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and otherwise > do the work that makes this a community practicing the open source > way. > > Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: > http://opensource.com/email-newsletter > > Send a message: [email protected] Change preferences: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list Unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVVQaMAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdgFsP/2Jk30BpDxI3SqSmkMmnjLOb PlOlHGkw0TxtrytSgW1/0Hxw2x+R+pL05jlhIzKg6c+FPFXcfn2YPAh1Fa1W2AWZ lkGEDutMKYdvKaUEMl3/1VLgoUpZBTjRWD0+DNR0/BJDyXabLug7wjWRPgyBGdXP HkDeQqVKqT5lLWjmEKc2Y0wchsrBxUeRmEHqpadTbrmezh3gGavyaxzdoIA1VD/I 3PIMh679P283NL39z0TQH5Q8aOvNt1/iqldohmldWJ0fNdSYh8xvOO5jir3rEysO YGSmVsd8c8Bg62jdWvlQ01xgqK2ODsxEnGhXbncZOQVBk/NRPJZ0CmkaZtrBQFX1 5o4HFslKYOyI62hwZHiY77bLjxQPEs0zvfOL3xEjrOSIXmUzni8DLStFD9Fa3sct 2WCq5+BfwShGqng9Ce+mTQRvoNcl3HNPpjqI5TWBAKfd2+6yF7RMY+OGhnsJYAwj WTdAaM7euVHsCb8GXzh53o7eJ+n63+JaCaCvobvnltTJGt7SniEA3IYIeKc3/tKc TImj+C53FR114kUM6ysuMKK9YDm4X/DuspRXN2x2uUlvfwuhcrTX34vAYtW6guBv AlTESZtPP8kwTL68JPybBERzHB7Lxu8KENfw/KAoVBrOtjwhYuM30AYWUrKmqQdr sv3QQClP9AmpuayPXxb3 =lkhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Osdc-list mailing list | This is a place for our readers, writers, moderators and artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and otherwise do the work that makes this a community practicing the open source way. Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Send a message: [email protected] Change preferences: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list Unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list
