DAISY ToC Only Production Training in South Africa

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The DAISY ToC Only Production Training in South Africa was organized by DAISY for All project and South African National Council for the Blind. Held at South African National Council for the Blind in Pretoria, South Africa. The training course was focused on ToC only DAISY 2.02 DTB production using MyStudioPC.

13 participants including 7 screen reader users from 8 organizations attended the training.
Organizations are Aurthur Blaxall school for the Blind, Blind South Africa, South African National Council for the Blind, University of South Africa, Pioneer Braille Printers, Sensory Solutions, Madressa Noor School for the Blind and Disability Management Services.

DAISY training for trainers of diverse disabilities in South Africa

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The DAISY DTB Production
Training for the representatives from diverse disability organizations in South Africa was convened by Shakila Maharaj and organized by DAISY for All project. Held at Convention Dynamics, Garden Court Johannesburg International Airport. The training course was focused on full text and full audio DAISY 2.02 DTB production using Microsoft Word Save as DAISY XML add-in, Pipeline and Sigtuna DAR 3.

DAISY training for trainers
of Autism and Low Vision in Philippines

Group photo at the DAISY training for trainers of Autism and Low Vision in Philippines

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The DAISY DTB Production
Training for the Autism Society of the Philippines (ASP) and Low Vision Individuals was organized by Philippines DAISY Network and held at the Legend Villas in Metro Manila, Philippines. The training course was focused on full text and full audio DAISY 2.02 DTB production using Sigtuna DAR 3.

10 participants attended the training. 5 participants from ASP which is an organization focused on the education and welfare of Filipinos with autism spectrum disorders, and 5 low vision individuals from
organizations such as Resources for the Blind
Incorporated (RBI), Department of Education, and
Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration,
and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired (ATRIEV).

Group photo at Refresher Course in Pakistan

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This training course focused on NCC only production using Sigtuna DAR 3 for those participated in the Focal Point Training in September 2006. It was organized by DAISY Forum of Pakistan and held at Al Maktoom Special Education Center for Visually Handicapped Children.

There were 10 participants including 3 visually impaired representing 6 different organizations. Even though this training targeted the former participants of the Focal Point Training, there were 5 new participants in this training. For this reason, the training was conducted for 4 days instead of its original plan of 3 days.

The 1st and 2nd days were allocated for the new participants to understand the basic procedure for creating a NCC only DTB with help from former participants. In this way, new participants spent their time creating basic NCC only DTB and the former participants were able to recap the procedure of creating a NCC only DTB by helping the new participants.

As a follow up session for the Focal Point Training in 2003, the Full Text DAISY DTB Training was conducted in Thailand from April 7-9, 2004. This training contained additional XHTML, CSS and MDF training and discussed about the standardization on creating text books to DAISY. Also, a small follow up session was conducted at Prison in Thailand.