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Digital Accessible Information System
Digital accessible information system (DAISY) is a technical standard for digital audiobooks, periodicals, and computerized text. DAISY is designed to be a complete audio substitute for print material and is specifically designed for use by people with print disabilities, including blindness, impaired vision, and dyslexia. Based on the MP3 and XML formats, the DAISY format has advanced features in addition to those of a traditional audiobook. Users can search, place bookmarks, precisely navigate line by line, and regulate the speaking speed without distortion. DAISY also provides aurally accessible tables, references, and additional information. As a result, DAISY allows visually impaired listeners to navigate something as complex as an encyclopedia or textbook, otherwise impossible using conventional audio recordings. DAISY multimedia can be a book, magazine, newspaper, journal, computerized text, or a synchronized presentation of text and audio. It provides up to six embedde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Player
Daisy, Daisies or DAISY may refer to: Plants * ''Bellis perennis'', the common daisy, lawn daisy or English daisy, a European species Other plants known as daisy * Asteraceae, daisy family ** ''Euryops chrysanthemoides'', African bush daisy ** ''Osteospermum'', African daisy ** ''Tetraneuris acaulis'', angelita daisy ** ''Melampodium leucanthum'', blackfoot daisy ** ''Glebionis coronaria'', crown daisy ** ''Brachyglottis greyi'', daisy bush ** ''Olearia'', daisy bush ** ''Argyranthemum'', dill daisy, marguerite daisy ** ''Rhodanthemum hosmariense'', Moroccan daisy ** ''Leucanthemum vulgare'', oxeye daisy, dog daisy ** ''Leucanthemum × superbum'', Shasta daisy ** ''Brachyscome'', several species ** ''Gerbera jamesonii'', Barberton daisy, Transvaal daisy ** ''Ismelia carinata'', tricolor daisy ** ''Perityle'' spp., rock daisy * ''Scabiosa prolifera'', Carmel daisy * ''Globularia'', globe daisies * ''Cleretum bellidiforme'', Livingstone daisy Arts, entertainment and media Film and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learning Ally
Learning Ally, previously named Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), is a non-profit volunteer organization operating nationwide in the United States. It produces and maintains a library of educational accessible audiobooks for people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment, dyslexia, or other disabilities. Services Learning Ally provides services to individuals with print disabilities such as dyslexia and visual impairments, as well as the people who support them. This includes services for parents such as phone consultations, webinars, support networks and information on specialists and tutors; and services for teachers such as classroom management tools (Teacher Ally), professional development workshops and lesson plans. Learning Ally also offers a digital audiobook library which in 2015 contained over 80,000 titles, including textbooks on specialty and academic subjects, from kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accessible Information
Holevo's theorem is an important limitative theorem in quantum computing, an interdisciplinary field of physics and computer science. It is sometimes called Holevo's bound, since it establishes an upper bound to the amount of information that can be known about a quantum state (accessible information). It was published by Alexander Holevo in 1973. Statement of the theorem Suppose Alice wants to send a classical message to Bob by encoding it into a quantum state, and suppose she can prepare a state from some fixed set \, with the i-th state prepared with probability p_i. Let X be the classical register containing the choice of state made by Alice. Bob's objective is to recover the value of X from measurement results on the state he received. Let Y be the classical register containing Bob's measurement outcome. Note that Y is therefore a random variable whose probability distribution depends on Bob's choice of measurement Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West German Audio Book Library For The Blind
The West German Audio Book Library for the Blind (), abbreviated WBH, is a specialist library which produces and distributes audiobooks and periodicals for blind and partially sighted persons. It is the largest library of its kind in the German speaking world.Sabine Tenta: ''The Audible Gate to the World: The West German Audio Book Library for the Blind'' (Goethe-Institut, 2009online retrieved 26-May-2012West Deutsches Rundfunk: ''Vor 50 Jahren: Westdeutsche Blindenhörbücherei in Münster eröffnet'' 9 November 200 retrieved 26-May-2012 The WBH supplies a nationwide network of libraries for the visually impaired, primarily in the western German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland, but also to other states and abroad.About the WBH at the official website of the Westdeutsche Blindenhörbücherei re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DTBook
DTBook (an Acronym and initialism, acronym for ''DAISY Digital Talking Book'') or DAISY XML is a XML-based document file format. It is used in EPUB 2.0 e-books and DAISY Digital Talking Book, as well as other places. Unlike other document file formats such as open document format, ODF DTBook puts a strong emphasis on structural encoding, but in comparison to other structural file formats such as DocBook and Text Encoding Initiative, TEI it is fairly simple. DTBook was developed by the Daisy Consortium as an accessibility, accessible file format similar to HTML, with special regard to the requirements of the Visual impairment, visually impaired. Therefore, it puts an emphasis on a clear, precise navigation and the explanation of visual elements. DTBook is further developed by the Daisy Consortium and is defined with a Document Type Definition, DTD as part of the National Information Standards Organization, NISO standard Z39.86-2005 NIMAS NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design For All (in ICT)
Design for All in the context of information and communications technology (ICT) is the conscious and systematic effort to proactively apply principles, methods and tools to promote universal design in computer-related technologies, including Internet-based technologies, thus avoiding the need for ''a posteriori'' adaptations, or specialised design.User Interfaces for All: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Constantine Stephanidis, (Ed.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001 Accessed 2019-05-14. Design for All is design for human diversity (such as that described in the diversity in the workplace or business), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakshumathi
Chakshumathi is a nongovernmental, not for profit organization based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, working for developing resources for the use of visually impaired people. It is an "Empowerment and Assistive Technology Centre for Blind". The organization, which was inaugurated in June 2011, is a member of DAISY Forum of India. The organization is currently headed by V.K. Damodaran, a former President of Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad. The organization is engaged in the following activities: *Publication of textbooks and other books for general reading in the DAISY standard. *Publication of a fortnightly in Malayalam in the DAISY standard. *Making available to visually impaired persons books in DAISY standard from libraries throughout the world. *Organising workshops on assistive technologies for the visually impaired. *Providing training in the production of books and other materials in DAISY standard. *Giving job training to visually impaired persons to help them eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books For The Blind
The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired. The program has included audio recordings of books since 1934 and digital book efforts began in 1996. History ''See also National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped'' In 1931, the United States passed the Pratt-Smoot Act to provide blind adults with access to books. Before audio recordings, books were made available in braille. Beginning with 19 libraries in 1931, the network as of March 2018 was 55 regional libraries, 32 subregional libraries, and 14 advisory and outreach centers serving the United States and its territories. The program was expanded in 1952 to include blind children, in 1962 to include music materials, and in 1966 to include individuals with physical impairments that prevent the reading of standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accessible Publishing
Accessible publishing is an approach to publishing and book design whereby books and other texts are made available in alternative formats designed to aid or replace the reading process. It is particularly relevant for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled. Alternative formats that have been developed to aid different people to read include varieties of larger fonts, specialised fonts for certain kinds of reading disabilities, braille, e-books, and automated audiobooks and DAISY digital talking books. Accessible publishing has been made easier through developments in technology such as print on demand (POD), e-book readers, the XML structured data format, the EPUB3 format and the Internet. Aim The aim of accessible publishing is to make reading easier for those who have difficulties doing so. This group includes people who are blind or who have low vision, people with learning disabilities, and people who are learning a second language. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braille
Braille ( , ) is a Tactile alphabet, tactile writing system used by blindness, blind or visually impaired people. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone devices. Braille can be written using a slate and stylus, a braille writer, an electronic braille notetaker or with the use of a computer connected to a braille embosser. For blind readers, braille is an independent writing system, rather than a code of printed orthography. Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight as a result of a childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of fifteen, he developed the braille code based on the French alphabet as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation, in 1829. The second revision, published in 1837, was the first Binary numeral system, binary form of writing developed in the modern era. Braille characters are f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption. Laws in many countries criminalize the circumvention of DRM, communication about such circumvention, and the creation and distribution of tools used for such circumvention. Such laws are part of the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the European Union's Information Society Directive – with the French DADVSI an example of a member state of the European Union implementing that directive. Copyright holders argue that DRM technologies are necessary to protect intellectual proper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
