Hello Esther, I tried Olearia, but found it to lack accessibility. I downloaded version 1.1, and I wasn't able to navigate a DAISy book as well as the keyboard shortcut keys indicate. And some of the navigation features such as go to page doesn't exist. I will take a look at the other software you said. Thanks very much.
On 6/3/10, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> -- >> Shen >> [email protected] >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- Shen [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
