Either Olearia or Emerson will read these on a Mac. Olearia, developed here and at Curtin University can be found at http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/
Emerson is a cross platform player in Java which is VoiceOVer compatible it can be found athttp://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/ Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) Email: gkear...@gmail.com On 04/09/2009, at 8:41 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > > Hi! > > Is their currently any way of reading material say from Vision > Australia's I-Access service? I know you need a special client to > download the stuff but once the material is on your Mac... > > > On 04/09/2009, at 10:37 AM, Greg Kearney wrote: > >> >> Yes you can and in fact we use Macs here all the time to do just >> that. >> The best way is to use OpenOffice with the odt2dtbook plugin. That >> will export a DTBook XML file which can be used with the Daisy >> Pipeline software to generate the finished book. The next release of >> the plugin will eliminate the need to use DAISY Pipeline and will >> export a finished DAISY book. >> >> >> Gregory Kearney >> Manager - Accessible Media >> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >> >> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >> Email: gkear...@gmail.com >> >> On 03/09/2009, at 7:23 PM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Gret and everyone, >>> >>> Is it possible to create DAISY books on Mac OS X? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> James >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Les Kriegler" <krieg...@nycap.rr.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>; "'Discussion of Digital >>> Talking >>> Books'" <dtb-t...@nfbnet.org>; "'Mike Shebanek'" >>> <sheba...@apple.com>; >>> "'Mary Beth Janes'" <mja...@apple.com>; "'macvoiceover'" >>> <macvoiceo...@freelists.org> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:16 AM >>> Subject: RE: VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY >>> format >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Greg, >>>> >>>> This is great! Navigation now will be much easier. Thanks for >>>> posting. >>>> >>>> Les >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:27 AM >>>> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books; Mike Shebanek; Mary Beth >>>> Janes; >>>> macvisionaries@googlegroups.com; macvoiceover >>>> Subject: VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY format >>>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> Gregory Kearney >>>> Manager - Accessible Media >>>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >>>> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >>>> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >>>> >>>> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >>>> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >>>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >>>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >>>> Email: gkear...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
