- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:25:27 +0000
- To: public-infographics@w3.org
- Cc: Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@bell.net>
Hi Ed, quick personal introduction: I work for the DAISY Consortium [1], a not-for-profit organisation that; amongst other things; works on open standards and designs software solutions for accessible publishing, primarily addressing the needs of visually-impaired and print-disabled persons. I am involved in some aspects of the DIAGRAM project [2], most notably we implemented an integrated authoring user-interface within the production workflow of DAISY Digital Talking Books, including support for aural (human-narrated) image descriptions. I see that Gerardo Capiel (Benetech) wrote a short introduction [3] to the DIAGRAM project on the Infographics Community Group blog, and that George Kerscher (DAISY Consortium) posted a related comment [4] in reply to Ed's blog article. I am glad to see the quality of other participants in this group as well. Let's hope the community continues to grow. The wiki [5] is currently pretty empty, so I took the liberty to add some information about the DIAGRAM project. I suspect that feeding the wiki with links to the outcome of existing research / development projects is an effective and lightweight way to kick-start some activity around use-cases and functional requirements. I look forward to reading further contributions from other members. Best wishes to you all, kind regards. Daniel [1] http://www.daisy.org [2] http://diagramcenter.org [3] http://www.w3.org/community/infographics/2011/12/08/hello/ [4] http://www.w3.org/community/infographics/2011/12/10/proposed-objectives-and-next-steps-for-this-group/#comment-5 [5] http://www.w3.org/community/infographics/wiki/Main_Page
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