International Trainers Training was conducted from May 17 to 23, 2008 at Century Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

In this training, there were 13 participants from Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, China, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Mongol, Laos and Cambodia. "DAISY Translator" and "Pipeline" were introduced and mainly used during the training as well as "Sigtuna DAR 3" were used recording for DAISY 2.02 full text and audio production.

DAISY ToC Only Production Training in South Africa

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The DAISY ToC Only Production Training in South Africa was organized by DAISY for All project and South African National Council for the Blind. Held at South African National Council for the Blind in Pretoria, South Africa. The training course was focused on ToC only DAISY 2.02 DTB production using MyStudioPC.

13 participants including 7 screen reader users from 8 organizations attended the training.
Organizations are Aurthur Blaxall school for the Blind, Blind South Africa, South African National Council for the Blind, University of South Africa, Pioneer Braille Printers, Sensory Solutions, Madressa Noor School for the Blind and Disability Management Services.

DAISY training for trainers of diverse disabilities in South Africa

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The DAISY DTB Production
Training for the representatives from diverse disability organizations in South Africa was convened by Shakila Maharaj and organized by DAISY for All project. Held at Convention Dynamics, Garden Court Johannesburg International Airport. The training course was focused on full text and full audio DAISY 2.02 DTB production using Microsoft Word Save as DAISY XML add-in, Pipeline and Sigtuna DAR 3.

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

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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.