DAISY, the Digital Accessible Information SYstem, is the world's most widely used assistive technology for reading. The DAISY Standard (officially ANSI/NISO z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book) has improved the reading experience for people with print disabilities. The DAISY Consortium announced the release of the second version of the DAISY Translator for Word. Gray Knowlton sums it up best on his blog, Gray Matter:

“The big news with the 2.0 release is the addition of Full DAISY Text and Audio books. Instead of converting to a DAISY XML file, you can now effectively save your Word documents as MP3 files. DAISY XML files can be read natively by some DAISY players, and the DAISY Pipeline is still available for processing those XML files…

…But the change to the 2.0 release of the Translator for Word represents a monumental simplification of this process. This is a fantastic development.”