Open Links newsletter
Download a copy of the Open Links newsletter
The Open University Disabled Student Services produces the Open Links newsletter. You can download Open Links as a PDF or as a series of files which can be used with DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) players (edition 49 and 51).
Help with PDF accessibility
Download a screen reader user’s guide for PDF documents or Adobe Reader 9 software.
If you have difficulty using a screen reader to read PDFs in a browser window
- try downloading / saving the PDF to your hard drive and then read it with your screen reader through the Adobe Reader program or
- try using the Read Out Loud text-to-speech synthesizer already in Acrobat Reader.
DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information SYstem and is the worldwide standard software for text to speech (TTS) digital talking book (DTB) formats. It is also compliant with the World Wide Web (W3C) standards, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) standards and produces MP3 format audio files.
Free DAISY software is available from
- AIMS http://amis.sourceforge.net/
- Key Foundation http://www.key.org.pl/
- TAB Player http://tab1.tab.or.th/daisy/english/
- TBP Reader http://www.daisy.org/tpbreader/
- List of DAISY Players http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DAISY_players
