Blind People, be Happy



There’s a good news for blind people because there is a software which’s able to help them “reading” digital documents from PC or notebook. The software named Daisy Pipeline was developed by Microsoft, Sonata Software, and Digital Accessible Information System (Daisy). Fortunately, Daisy belonging to the open source permit.

The principle is translating a file of Office Open XML (OOXML) format to be file of Daisy format that’s used in some applications, like: Book Wizard Producer and Daisy Pipeline. Both of these applications are usually used to make “conversing digital book” for PC users who have sight restrictiveness.

Beside that, Daisy file has the ability more than jumping inter audio track. Audio format is “read” documents, like: jump inter page, read content draft, and inform a reference from a document.

The application will help blind people because only about 5 percent of public materials can be accessed by them.

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