CSUN Adaptive Technologies Conference
San Diego, CA
PRESENTERS
Brenda McBride, Humanware
Steve Bennett, Dolphin Computer Access
Mary Jo Barry, Don Johnson, Inc.
March 24, 2010
- Students with appropriate documentation are exempt from copyright laws
- Institutions are made responsible for verification and authorization
- DAISY with Dolphinn EasyReader
- DAISY = TXT + MP3 + SML
- This results in the synchronization of text books
- Norfolk St. University Course Study (70 studnets, 1 with visual impairment)
- DAISY copy of text made available, primarily to student with VI, but all students had access.
- ALL students downloaded DAISY book and ALL students passed course.
- RFBD’s DAISY software keys are free for students with qualified disability
- Key Benefit of DTB
- Searchable Text
- Can input JPG, GIF, TIF, KES
- Turns into Word document
- Can output as Braille
- Dolphin EasyReader File (.dec) is a compressed version of Word.
- Dolphin does not care whether it is an image or text PDF, built in OCR resolves this.
- Many languages are available in Dolphin EasyReader
