ChattyBox: Online Accessibility Service Using Fixed-Layout DAISY

A new type of daisy books, “Fixed-layout DAISY” is proposed, in which the whole page is treated as a multi-layer picture, the second layer of which has the same form as the original print document. A DAISY (EPUB3) player can read out any texts on the transparent front layer together with highlighting them. By making use of Fixed-layout DAISY, “ChattyBox” is developed, which provides dyslexic people with various innovative online accessibility services such as automatically converting PDF into Fixed-layout DAISY, playing DAISY books back with a popular browser, etc.