Using a DAISY reader

Jamie Cuthbertson talks about DAISY and demonstrates how a DAISY player can be used to enable blind and visually impaired people access to their favourite books.

DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information SYstem. DAISY formats such as digital talking books can be used with a specialised CD player or computer software. Increasingly DAISY can be played on handheld mobile devices. In order for DAISY to be accessible the original format must be correctly formatted with appropriate heading styles, page numbers, and image descriptions.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• DAISY
• blind
• visually
• impaired
• college
• JISC
• RSC
• talking
• books
• accessible

[sweetnightingale1973]

We can also put them onto our own thumb drives and load that into our library issued player (ours doesn't take CD's). Do your CD's have Braille lebels on them? I'd think it would be hard to do since CD's are quite thin and somewaht fragile.

Thanks for showing this. I'm always interested in how other countries do their digital Talking Book media.

[sweetnightingale1973]

Hi Jamie. This was an excellent demonstration here. I see your DAISY player looks much different than what we have in the states. Yours uses CD's while ours has a cartridge (a thumb drive built into a plastic casing). Do you get the CD's from your library through your post? Our cartridges come through our Talking Book library, but we can also download books and load them onto such things like the Victor Reader Stream.