Lively chat on book accessibility is now downloadable

Today's accessibility chatcast featuring George Kersher is now available as a large WMA file from the Opal-Online archive. Just click here.

I was delighted to hear him talk about a maximum amount of mainstreaming of content from books and other media. Exactly! The blind and others with special needs should be able to download the latest e-books and other goodies without waits. I like the idea of the DAISY standards he's been pushing over the years. Imagine the same book available as text, as synthesized speech, as a dramatic performance from a human reader, as braille--as, you name it! Oh, the wonders of XML and the navigation techniques that Kersher and collegues have been working on.

The sponsor of the chatcasts is the Mid-Illinois Talking Books Center, and the moderator is Tom Peters.