EasyReader Case Study: Boston students help their peers with DAISY books

EasyPublisher is very clear and direct

Just as deaf students are helped by their classmate notetakers in universities, visually impaired students can now turn to their peers for the creation of their alternate format texts.  At Boston University's Office of Disability Services, Adriana Perilla and a team of eight other student workers  are the alternate format "experts" on campus.  She digitizes and creates accessible DAISY books and other alternate formats from the classroom materials that professors assign to visually impaired students.

Adriana explains that several different alternate formats are created in the office based on the requesting students' preferences, but all of them are variations of the process to build DAISY books. Adriana trains new student workers in a few days of all the ins and outs of alternate formats, and their DAISY publishing tool Dolphin's EasyPublisher.  "EasyPublisher is very clear and direct," says Perilla, "With this tool I can create books that give disabled students the same access and independence of any other student on campus."

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