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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
