The Urakawa open-source project aims at providing a Software Development Toolkit (SDK) for accessible multimedia, as well as real-world DAISY applications built with the SDK, such as Obi, the audio-only Digital Talking Book authoring tool.
DFA contributes to this software project with the firm goal of delivering quality open-source software for DAISY multimedia and beyond (open-standards like SMIL, motion pictures, etc.). The Urakawa software is available for free, and is designed to support multiple languages, including double-byte script encoding. Such universal reach will not only empower the end-users (content producers), but will also enable software developers to contribute actively, for example by specializing the software to meet specific applications needs.
