MathDaisy 1.0

Are you a teacher or professor that needs to make your Microsoft Word documents readable to your students with vision and learning disabilities? The MathDaisy application will enable you to save documents in the DAISY Digital Talking Book format. Your students can use MathPlayer-enabled DAISY player software to read your classroom materials in the manner that suits their abilities and preferences best.

Many state and local educational institutions are now requiring teachers, instructors, and professors to make classroom materials they create accessible to students with disabilities. In the past, this has been difficult to do, especially for materials containing math. MathDaisy now makes it possible for you to save Word documents containing equations as a DAISY electronic book that can be read by your students using MathPlayer-enabled DAISY player software on a personal computer or a dedicated eBook reader.

MathDaisy works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft's Save As DAISY add-in, and MathType. As you might guess from its name, Save As DAISY adds a "Save As DAISY" menu item to Word's File menu. This command saves the document as a DAISY Digital Talking Book ready to be used in an eBook reader. MathDaisy enhances the Word-to-DAISY conversion process, converting the equations in the document to MathML as required by the DAISY format.

DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information SYstem and is a standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. This includes Digital Talking Books, digital text books, and synchronized audio/text books. DAISY is a globally recognized standard for accessible content and is part of NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard).

NIMAS/DAISY is part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reauthorized by the US Congress in 2004. It recommends that state educational agencies supply educational materials in the NIMAS/DAISY format to those students that need them. The impact of this legislation is just starting to be felt. Besides requiring teachers to produce accessible materials, all the major textbook makers are gearing up to produce books in the DAISY Book format

Requirements:	No special requirements
Release Date:	August 16, 2012
Platforms:	WinXP, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64
Keyword:	Book,  Daisy Electronic Book,  Digital Accessible Information System,  Digital Talking Book Format,  Education,  Math
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