Hi Shen,
For a free, open source DAISY player for the Mac, take a look at
Olearia at the Curtin University site:
<http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/>
The main Curtin University page has a number of interesting links,
especially under projects, such as Olearia. However, when they re-
organized their web pages last year, a lot of the links on the Books
pages got broken, and were never fixed. They incorrectly try to point
to the Guide Dogs of Western Autstralia pages for Daisy books
including the VoiceOver Getting Started guides. Use this direct
address to the ABWA book pages instead:
<http://www.guidedogswa.org/books/>
Those guides only cover VoiceOver through Leopard. Greg Kearney
posted on this list about the availability of a VoiceOver Getting
Started Guide for Snow Leopard in Daisy format.
<begin quote>
VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY format has been
produced by the Association for the Blind of Western Australia and can
be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.cucat.org/tmp/vogs_sl.zip
This is a full text full audio DAISY version 2.02 digital talking book
with navigation at the chapter and subsection level and page numbers
supported.
<end quote>
The Guide Dogs WA pages also give links to a second DAISY reader
called Emerson at their DAISY software summary page:
<http://www.guidedogswa.org/software/>
Finally, you should take a look at a new (commercial) product called
"ReadHear" if you want support for encrypted DAISY books. The web page
is:
<http://www.gh-accessibility.com/>
I haven't used this, but some folks at the mac-access list discussed
and tried this when it came out at the beginning of the year, and
liked it. One of the list members mentioned that the developer was
working on a DAISY app for the iPhone that would also support
encrypted DAISY books and be accessible. (There's a Voice of Daisy
iPhone app that Greg Kearney reported back about on the list around
the New Year. It had some accessibility problems, as well as no
support for encrypted DAISY level 2, and restarted books at the
beginning each time the app is launched.) I haven't heard anything
more about this, and this was only an informal comment (based, I
think, on a communication with the developer). If you want to follow
up with more questions, you could try joining the mac-access list.
Their main mailing lists page is:
<http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mailing-Lists.html>
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
Shen wrote:
Hello,
What accessible DAISy player is everyone using on the Mac? I'm looking
to test a few to see what is accessible.
Thanks.
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