This is dated 2003 and they authorized the Icon and braille plus which are not on that list.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [macvoiceover] Re: Olearia first public release (version 0.90b) Hi, Thanks, Greg. The NLS restriction came up earlier in discussion of Katieplayer. Here's the link to the NLS strategic business plan: http://www.loc.gov/nls/businessplan/2003.html In the section titled "DTB Player and medium design contract", they allowed only for one specific player device and PC-based software only (contracted directly by NLS...HumanWare has been awarded this contract...so software and device for NLS playback can come only from HumanWare). Cheers, Esther On Oct 28, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Greg Kearney wrote: > An important note: Olearia, and for that matter no other software > based player, can not play NLS books. THis is due to the NLS > refusing to approve software players to have access to their > encryption. > > We are working with RFB&D to be able to ply their encrypted books > and expect a solution to that soon. > > If you are bothered by the NLS restriction on playback of their > books I would urge you to contact your representatives in congress. > > Greg Kearney > Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology > www.cucat.org > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Dave Hunt wrote: > >> Which format are the DTBs from the NLS Digital program, and does >> this program play them? I normally play them on my Icon, but would >> play them on this machine if that were an option. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Randy Stegall wrote: >> >>> Thanks Greg. It plays any of the dtbs I have tried so far. Keep >>> up the good work. >>> >>> Randy >>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: >>> >>>> Olearia is a DAISY digital talking book player for the Macintosh >>>> computer platform. Olearia will play DAISY version 2.02 and DAISY/ >>>> NISO 2005 digital talking book. This version 0.90b will play >>>> audio only and full text full audio books. The final version of >>>> Olearia will support text only DAISY books as well. Olearia >>>> supports VoiceOver. Olearia requires MacOS X version 10.5 or >>>> better. >>>> >>>> Olearia is free open source software and can be downloaded from >>>> http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia >>>> Source code can be downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/olearia/ >>>> >>>> Greg Kearney >>>> Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology >>>> www.cucat.org >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>>> >>>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link >>>>> below. >>>>> http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>>> >>>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the >>>>> Webinterface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>>> >>> >>>> >>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>> >>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link >>>> below. >>>> http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the >>>> Webinterface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link >>> below. >>> http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the >>> Webinterface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >
