[Blindtlk] Fwd: Microsoft Save as DAISY version 2 launched

[David B Andrews]

 >>> "George Kerscher" <kerscher at montana.com> 3/19/2009 10:44 AM >>>
Dear Members and Friends,

Yesterday  announcements were made about Save as DAISY add-in Version 2 for
Microsoft Word. This release includes a lite version of the DAISY Pipeline.
This will generate full text and full audio in a one-step process.

In addition, Microsoft announced Project Buttercup, which is a browser-based
player that uses Microsoft  silverlight  for the presentation of full text
and full audio.

The DAISY Press release can be found at:
<http://www.daisy.org/news/attachments/2009_03_18_Press_Release.html>http://www.daisy.org/news/attachments/2009_03_18_Press_Release.html

I would like to thank the  staff and the consultants  who have been
working on this project. I also want to thank all of the beta testers who
submitted bugs; this process is essential to improve the software.

Best
George

George Kerscher Ph.D.
In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
<http://www.daisy.org>http://www.daisy.org
Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic
(RFB&D)
<http://www.rfbd.org>http://www.rfbd.org
Co-chair Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C
<http://www.w3c.org/wai>http://www.w3c.org/wai
Board Representative to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
<http://www.idpf.org>http://www.idpf.org
Phone: +1 406/549-4687
Email: kerscher at montana.com