DAISY training for trainers
of Autism and Low Vision in Philippines

Group photo at the DAISY training for trainers of Autism and Low Vision in Philippines

Report

The DAISY DTB Production
Training for the Autism Society of the Philippines (ASP) and Low Vision Individuals was organized by Philippines DAISY Network and held at the Legend Villas in Metro Manila, Philippines. The training course was focused on full text and full audio DAISY 2.02 DTB production using Sigtuna DAR 3.

10 participants attended the training. 5 participants from ASP which is an organization focused on the education and welfare of Filipinos with autism spectrum disorders, and 5 low vision individuals from
organizations such as Resources for the Blind
Incorporated (RBI), Department of Education, and
Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration,
and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired (ATRIEV).

DAISY for All Seminar in Kazakhstan

Seminar

DAISY introductory seminar was held at the Republican Library for the Blind and Visual Impaired Citizens in Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 12, 2007. Hiroshi Kawamura talked about the biref introduction to DAISY, DAISY Consotrium and future development of DAISY. After that, the demonstration on DAISY Playback software was presented by Miki Azuma and Dipendra Manocha.

Training

The blush up training for the engineers at the Republican Library for the Blind and Visual Impaired Citizens was conducted by Miki Azuma on December 13 and 14. There were some people who learned how to use DAISY Production software, however, the procedure was not efficient and there was not much progress in production.

By the end of the 14th, the engineer was able to produce ToC only project using MyStudio PC and it was presented to the director of the Republican Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired Citizens.

The program follows:

There is a new release of the AMIS 2.6 Jaws scripts from Avneesh Singh. It has a few improvements, although it is not a major release. Here's what is new:

- Displaying of help viewer and JAWS-specific dialogs (for making AMIS/JAWS combination more friendly for new users).
- Activation of open file dialog so as to fill absence of AMIS self-voicing in this dialog.

You can find the download link on the AMIS homepage.

The Urakawa open-source project aims at providing a Software Development Toolkit (SDK) for accessible multimedia, as well as real-world Daisy applications built with the SDK, such as Obi, the audio-only Digital Talking Book authoring tool.

DFA contributes to this software project with the firm goal of delivering quality open-source software for Daisy multimedia and beyond (open-standards like SMIL, motion pictures, etc.). The Urakawa software is available for free, and is designed to support multiple languages, including double-byte script encoding. Such universal reach will not only empower the end-users (content producers), but will also enable software developers to contribute actively, for example by specializing the software to meet specific applications needs.

AMIS, the Adaptive Multimedia Information System, originally created by JSRPD and now maintained and developed by the DAISY-for-All (DFA) Project, has two announcements.

September 5, 2007

Manila Hotel, Manila, Philippines

Sponsored by:

Organized by: The Philippine DAISY Network (PDN)

Philippine Printing House (PPHB-DepEd)
National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP)

Adaptive Technology f/t Rehabilitation, Integration & Empowerment of the V.I. (ATRIEV)
Resources for the Blind (RBI)
National Computer Center (NCC-CICT)
The National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

Editor's note: here is the original report, with formatting preserved.

DFA International Trainers Training 2007 (fiscal year 2006) Report

Report

There were ten participants, three from Philippine, two from Pakistan, two from Indonesia, one from Vietnam, one from Nepal, one from Laos in the training. The course was designed to be a advanced course for the DAISY DTB production to help their own country to implement DAISY and a preparatory course for to-be DFA International Trainers.

In this course, sometimes participants were asked to work in small groups. There were several times where participants were asked to discuss problems and solutions. Also, sometimes the individual was asked to teach others how to produce DTBs. Since there were some people who were not familiar with some of the steps producing DTBs, this helped those people also some individuals who came front to teach others.

The training covered how to create better DAISY DTBs which includes; production of TOC only DTBs, xml, xhtml, css, validation and production of full text DAISY DTBs, and how to fix the problematic DAISY DTBs.

International Trainer's Training was conducted from June 29 to July 10, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. This training was to provide in depth trainers who would become a trainer in the neighboring countries as well as support on-site training in their own country. It was hosted by Monthian Buntan and conducted by Miki Azuma.

May 2-5, 2007. Bangkok, Thailand

The workshop had been organized by Marisa DeMeglio with Daniel Weck and Julien Quint. 10 participants from 5 countries localized AMIS into their respective languages. New language packs of Chinese, Thai, Filipino, Malay and Nepali is available for download at http://amis.sf.net.